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Manufacturing: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Factories there to Avoid Shortages and Brutal Prices Increases in Global Markets

Distribution and Material Handling: Cliff Holste on the Keys to Sortation System Success in Distribution

Transportation: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Supply Chain Trends: New (to some) Class of Software Focused on Managing Short Term Supply and Demand Issues

Procurement and Sourcing: Can Commodity Prices Continue to Soar Amidst Weak Economic News?

RFID and Auto ID: New Life for the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) in the End?

Green Supply Chain: Fallout Continues over Greenpeace Report on Toxic Chemicals in Apparel Supply Chain, as Nike, Others, Commit to Detox

Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization


It`s Time To Stop Monkeying Around

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New Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest for Aug. 30, 2011
 
Every other week, we'll post a cartoon and ask for witty/humorous captions from our readers. The winning entry will be published the following week. The newest cartoon will be posted on the SCDigest home page every other Monday and in that week's newsletter (usually emailed on Thursdays)
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Sept, 14, 2011.
 
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Manufacturing
Featured Story: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Growth

Australia, India, Brazil, even China Look at Plans to Empower Domestic Manufacturing; In US, Sen. Feinstein Proposes $20 Bill in Loans to US Manufacturers Facing Subsidized Foreign Competition

Related Content: Gartner Names Top 10 Industrial Supply Chains

Emerson Electric Comes Out on Top, but Industrial Companies Score Fairly Low Overall; Do Industry Dynamics Mean its Supply Chains aren't as Good?

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: New (to some) Class of Software Focused on Managing Short Term Supply and Demand Issues

''Response Management'' Can Help Both Top and Bottom Lines, Enabling More Real-Time Demand-Supply Matching; Like a Football Play Where the Coach can Keep Communicating with Each Player as the Action Unfolds

Related Content: Gartner Methodology for Rating Top Supply Chain Schools may not be Perfect, but is Much Better than US News and World Report Process, Don Klock of Rutgers Sa

Gartner Survey of Real Supply Chain Professionals is Key, Klock Argues; Many Difference in the Two Top Tens



distribution and material
Featured Story: Cliff Holste on the Keys to Sortation System Success in Distribution

Poor System Performance Almost Always the Result of Problems in the Concepting and Planning Stages, Holste Says

Related Content: DC Associates Say Wearable Wireless Terminals Offer Big Productivity and Ergonomic Gains

Associates from WESCO Distribution and OHL on What is Better About Wearables in DC Environments versus Traditional Handhelds

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Factories there to Avoid Shortages and Brutal Prices Increases in Global Markets

Lighting Maker Intematix Would Have Preferred New Factory in California, but Heading to China Instead; Costs up Astronomically in Past Few Years

Related Content: Despite Low Growth Shipping Environment, Big Containerships Keep Coming

Maersk, with 18,000 TEU Mega-Mega Ships on Order, Upgrading Existing S-Class Ships to Hold Even More; Predicted Container Shortage for 2H 2011 not Occurring, Alphaliner Says



RFID
Featured Story: New Life for the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) in the End?

Somewhat Forgotten as RFID in Consumer Goods to Retail Floundered, the Standards for RFID Data Management Seeing a Comeback, Especially Overseas; US Retailers Just Starting to Get Interested

Related Content: Honeywell Vaults to Major Wireless Terminal Provider for Supply Chain Applications Overnight with Acquisition of LXe Parent Company EMS Technologies

Where did All the Old Wireless Terminal Providers Go? Honeywell Challenge will be Merging Its Go-to-Market Strategies with ''High Touch'' LXE Model

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: Can Commodity Prices Continue to Soar Amidst Weak Economic News?

Some Predict Prices for Metals, Agricultural Goods Headed for Big Fall, but Others Note China Keeps Buying, Food Demand Outstrips Supply

Related Content: ISM 2011 J. Shipman Award Winner Shelley Stewart on Procurement Careers, Lean and Supply Management, and More

Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco International Says Better Managing Risk will be Key Skill Area in Next Few Years



transportation
Featured Story: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve

Opportunity Now for Many Shippers to Advance LCCs to Version 2.0, even as Many have Yet to Centralize

Related Content: Sears Builds Powerful Transportation Scorecard, and Shares Experiences on How to Get it Right

Data Organization is as Important as the Data Itself; Every Number Should be Relative to Something, Sears Says

transportation
Featured Story: Fallout Continues over Greenpeace Report on Toxic Chemicals in Apparel Supply Chain, as Nike, Others, Commit to Detox

Many Well Known Companies Caught with their Sports Shorts Down, as Chinese Textile Suppliers Spew Toxic Stuff Into Waterways

Related Content: Clean Energy Jobs Continue to Disappoint, New Reports Say

New York Times Article Stirs the Debate; ''Demand Just Is Not There''; Lack of Cap and Trade to Blame?

transportation
Featured Story: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization

Analysis of where and how customers of vendor compliance optimization/management solutions find value from the software.

Related Content: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories

How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.

   
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