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October 24, 2012 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Manufacturing: Bold Plan for Virtually Integrated Steel Mill Goes Bust, Could Cost ThyssenKrupp Billions
Supply Chain Trends: Supply Chain Network Design: Where the Real Money Is
Distribution and Material Handling: Research Says Better Performing Distribution and Transportation Organizations have Better Software
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: MIT Research Puts Some Real Data Behind Ocean Shipping Variability
RFID and Auto ID: Supply Chain Tech Note - New Voice Headset from Vocollect Applies Smart Engineering Effort to Important but Often Overlooked System Component
Sourcing and Procurement: Deep Vendor Collaboration Pays Big Dividends for Coffee Machine Maker Wilbur Curtis
Transportation: Dynamics Continue in the Parcel Shipping Market
Green Supply Chain: New Report on US Energy Brings Carbon Emissions and Economic Prosperity Questions into Relief
Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization
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Last Chance! Cartoon Caption Contest for Oct. 1, 2012

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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Oct. 25, 2012
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Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Bold Plan for Virtually Integrated Steel Mill Goes Bust, Could Cost ThyssenKrupp Billions
How Could Decision Have Gone Wrong So Fast? Candidate for Addition to Greatest Supply Chain Disasters of All-Time
Related Content: US Manufacturers Turning Lean Attention to Factory Labor
Manufacturers Increasingly Turning to Casual to Reduce Costs, Improve Flexibility; Staying Profitable Even in Recessions?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain Network Design: Where the Real Money Is
Too Many Companies Still Stuck in Old Approaches, Expert Says; How to Think About Customer Service in the Context of Supply Chain Costs
Related Content: CSCMP 2012 Day 3 Video Review and Comment
SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in Atlanta
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Research Says Better Performing Distribution and Transportation Organizations have Better Software
Chief Supply Chain Officer Insights Finds Companies Saying they are Functionally Effective are Much More Likely to Rate Their Software Capabilities as High
Related Content: 17th Annual 3rd Party Logistics Study Review and Comment Part 2
A Look at Supply Chain Innovation and Risk Management Across Shippers and 3PLs
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: MIT Research Puts Some Real Data Behind Ocean Shipping Variability
Lots of Complaints, but Little Data to Date; Delays Come at Ports, not Over the Water, Caplice and Kalkanci Says at CSCMP
Related Content: European Union Says it Is Considering Carbon Tax on Container and Bulk Ships Into and Out of Ports
Move Would Mirror Controversial Approach for Airlines; Tax Would Likely be On Full Voyage Distance
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain Tech Note - New Voice Headset from Vocollect Applies Smart Engineering Effort to Important but Often Overlooked System Component
Our View: SRX2 Unit Sets New Standard for Voice Market
Related Content: Maybe SpyChips Book had a Point, as Students and Parents Protest Personal Tagging at Texas Schools
A Number of Student Tracking Systems are Out There, It Turns Out; Monitoring More than Just Attendance?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Deep Vendor Collaboration Pays Big Dividends for Coffee Machine Maker Wilbur Curtis
Key Supplier Becomes Extension of Company Engineering Group, Helps Get Products to Market Faster
Related Content: Commodities Largely Up in Q3 but Remain Down for Full Year to Date
Commodities Mostly DownSharply from Peak in April 2011
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Dynamics Continue in the Parcel Shipping Market
Domestic and Global Shippers Continue to Move to Slower, Less Expensive Services; Rapid Growth at UPS and FedEx in Services Offered in Partnership with US Post Office
Related Content: Here Come the (Same Day) Delivery Wars
Amazon, Walmart, eBay, USPS all Have Programs Under Way
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: New Report on US Energy Brings Carbon Emissions and Economic Prosperity Questions into Relief
IHS Says Unconventional Oil and Gas Production will Revolutionized US Economy - But That Would Seem Hard to Achieve While Reaching CO2 Goals
Related Content: Global Temperatures - Up, Down, Who Knows?
UK Data Shows No Global Warming for 16 Years, but Many Scientists Say Data Taken Out of Context
Manufacturing Focus
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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