Weekly On Target Newsletter

Oct. 26 , 2010 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

This Week:
	Manufacturing: US Multi-Nationals Continue to See Share of Workers Outside US Grow, but Strategy is Often to Expand International Sales	Seegrid Video Case Study How It Works: G-Series Industrial Mobile Robots
	Global Supply Chain and Logistics: China Denies Reports it is Blocking Shipments of Scare Rare Earth Metals to Developed Economies, Reducing Exports Next Year by 30%
	Distribution and Material Handling: With the Right Discipline, WMS Implementation Success Can be Assured
	Transportation: Transportaion Productivity Coalition Hopes to Increase Weight Limits for US Trucks, but Law Likely Depends on Passage of Full Highway Bill
	Supply Chain Trends: Latest Trends in Logistics Study from Manrodt, Holcomb IDs 5 Undeniable Supply Chain Truths
	Procurement and Sourcing: Companies that Do Not Manage Commodity Price Swings Well Leave Lots of Dollars Off the Bottom Line
	RFID and Auto ID: The "Square" from Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Instantly Brings Credit Card Processing to Mobile Phone Application
	Green Supply Chain: Vote in California Next will Play Pivotal Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Future

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Supply Chain Trends and Issues

Featured Story

Supply Chain News: Latest Trends in Logistics Study from Manrodt, Holcomb IDs 5 Undeniable Supply Chain Truths

Annual Survey Finds Big Improvements in Inventory Turns - but Will They Hold? Strategy of being All Things to All People Surges

Supply Chain Innovation, Formally Acknowledging the Joint Benefits, are Key, Kraft's Lambotte Says

The Next Generation of Cost Savings

Transportation Management Focus

Featured Story

Transportation Productivity Coalition Hopes to Increase Weight Limits for US Trucks, but Law Likely Depends on Passage of Full Highway Bill

Move to Increase Loads by 17,000 Pounds Could Reduce Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Kraft Says it Would Reduce its Truckload Moves by at Least 6%; Safety Concerns Proving Flawed?

Where will the Drivers Come from? Training New Drivers on the Physical, not the Psychological.

Managed Transportation Services

from Lean Logistics

On-Demand TMS

Distribution and Material Handling Focus

Featured Story

With the Right Discipline, WMS Implementation Success Can be Assured

Cummins Filtration Points the Way to WMS Deployment Success; From Go-Live to Clean Floor in Just Three Days in 600,000 Sq. Foot DC

Related Content

Supply Chain News: Conair Fights Back in Retail Chargeback War

New Proactive Monitoring System Lets Small Appliances Giant be Aware of "Shipments at Risk" of Compliance Violations

Green Supply Chain Focus
from - [TheGreenSupplyChain.com] (an SCDIGEST Website)

Featured Story

Vote in California Next will Play Pivotal Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Future

Proposition 23 Would Delay Planned Regulations, Cap and Trade Regime in the State Until Unemployment Drops to 5.5%; Will California Model Move to Other States?

Note to Farmers: Here Come the WalMart Advisors; $1 Billion Investment to Improve Logistics for Perishables

Global Supply Chain and Logistics Focus

Featured Story

China Denies Reports it is Blocking Shipments of Scare Rare Earth Metals to Developed Economies, Reducing Exports Next Year by 30%

Using Rare Earth Monopoly as a Political and Economic Weapon?

Related Content

Key to Ocean Rates will be Ability of Carriers to Maintain Capacity Discipline, Drewry Shipping Says

Industry Developments Means Shipper-Carrier Relationship has "Changed Forever," Drewry's Dekker Says; Is Cost Sharing Commoditizing the Carriers?

Many Points of View on Tag Placement and Data Structure; Need to Address both the Asset and the Load

Sourcing and Procurement Focus

Featured Story

Companies that Do Not Manage Commodity Price Swings Well Leave Lots of Dollars Off the Bottom Line

Cross-Functional Collaboration is Key, McKinsey Consultant Says; Reducing Margin Volatility 20-40%

Related Content

Little Reported Amid Still Wobbly Economy, Commodity Price Shocks and Supply Concerns Surging Again

Agriculture, Metals Prices Soaring, Pressuring Bottom Lines; Longer Contracts, Direct Investment, Among the Weapons; Nestle Spending $500 Million to Help Coffee Growers Produce More

Manufacturing Focus

Featured Story

US Multi-Nationals Continue to See Share of Workers Outside US Grow, but Strategy is Often to Expand International Sales

Drop in US Employment in Mature Economies is Sharp versus Rise in Asia

Related Content

Supply Chain News: James Womack, Founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, Partially Hangs Up his Cleats

LEI CEO Role now Goes to John Shook, First US Manager at Toyota in Japan

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