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MANUFACTURING
US Manufacturing Revival Still Hard to Find in the Data, as Imports Continue to Rise
Import Levels are Up Almost Across the Board; US Manufacturing Rival will be Real when Numbers Show It
SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES
Supply Chain By Design: Just Because the Feature Exists, Doesn’t Mean You Should Use It
Putting too Much Into a Model can be Worse Than Having too Little

Oct. 15th - from the Convenience of Your Office

Keynote Speaker: Chris Caplice of MIT

 

 


DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIAL HANDLING FOCUS
Key Trends in Warehouse Management System Market Part 1
Current Trends Featured in Big Ideas Videocast on Present and Future of WMS
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Jilted CMA CGM Finds New Partners with Ocean Three Alliance, as Carrier Differentiation about Gone, Maersk Line CEO Says
Proposed Ocean Three Allliances to be ''Antidote'' to 2M from Maersk and MSC; Container Carriers Now Like Airlines, Maersk CEO Skou Says

Keynote 2: SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore on the Current State of TMS

 


RFID AND AUTO ID FOCUS
RFID News Round-Up for Sept. 16, 2014
Macy's Says Item-Level RFID Continues to Drive Value; Missouri Legislature Says No to RFID Student Tracking; Research Shows Benefits of Farm to Store Food Tracking Technology
SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT FOCUS
Delivering ROI and Relevance from Procurement Operations
Top Companies Drive See Returns 11 Times their Investment in Procurement, versus Just 4.5 for the Average Firm


TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT FOCUS
Among eCommerce Boom, UPS Struggles to Drive Big Gains to Bottom Line
Despite Huge Volume Gains, Variety of Forces Keep Margins Down; Our Analysis of eCommerce Growth and Its Share of Total Retail
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN
Does Long Temperature Pause Mean It is Time to Relook at Global Warming?
Temperatures Flat for 16 or 18 Years Difficult for Climatologists and Their Models to Explain
RESEARCH AND INSIGHT
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