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November 15, 2012 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

Trusted Exporter: A Look At How The US Government Could Certify Trusted Exporters

Could You Be A US-Trusted Exporter?

Manufacturing: Could Low Natural Gas Prices Drive Manufacturing Renaissance in Midwest?

Supply Chain Trends : Trends and Insights on Supply Chain Planning Part 2

Distribution and Material Handling: Should E-Commerce Fulfillment and Regular Distribution Be Housed in the Same Distribution Center?

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: MIT Research Puts Some Real Data Behind Ocean Shipping Variability

RFID and Auto ID: Can RFID-Based System Deliver More Productivity for Very Narrow Aisle Forktruck Movements?

Sourcing and Procurement: Paper Products Competitors Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark Both Pursuing Aggressive Green Sourcing Initiatives

Transportation: Q3 More Challenging for Truckload Carriers as Freight Volumes Slow

Green Supply Chain: Walmart Will Test Potentially Breakthrough New Supercube Truck in Canada with 30% more Capacity

Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: Building the Supply Chain from the Shelf Back

New Cartoon Caption Contest for Oct. 30, 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)

See Full Size Cartoon
and Send Entry

Deadline is 8:00 pm EST
Nov. 28, 2011.
(One Extra Week Due
to Thanksgiving Week)

Winner announced in Nov. 11th SCDigest Newsletter
May the funniest man or woman win!
Have an idea for a cartoon? We would love that too, and will give you the credit.

Featured Story: Could Low Natural Gas Prices Drive Manufacturing Renaissance in Midwest?

Chemicals, Fertilizers and Other Sectors Finding Midwest will be Low Cost Region; A Virtuous Cycle Developing?

How Could Decision Have Gone Wrong So Fast? Candidate for Addition to Greatest Supply Chain Disasters of All-Time

Featured Story: Trends and Insights on Supply Chain Planning Part 2

Our Virtual Panel of Industry Experts Covers a Wide Range of Topics on Supply Chain Planning and Related Technologies

Featured Story: Should E-Commerce Fulfillment and Regular Distribution Be Housed in the Same Distribution Center?

Jim of enVista Says There are Opposing Forces that Need to Be Juggled

Chief Supply Chain Officer Insights Finds WMS and TMS Users Find Higher End Capabilities Lacking

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

Move Would Mirror Controversial Approach for Airlines; Tax Would Likely be On Full Voyage Distance

Featured Story: Can RFID-Based System Deliver More Productivity for Very Narrow Aisle Forktruck Movements?

Software Controls will Manage the Movements Horizontally and Vertically; Up to 25% Efficiency Gains, Jungheinrich Says

Our View: SRX2 Unit Sets New Standard for Voice Market

Featured Story: Paper Products Competitors Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark Both Pursuing Aggressive Green Sourcing Initiatives

Green Makes the Headlines, but Alternative Sources Could Also Reduce Business Risk; KC Looks to Grow Bamboo?

Key Supplier Becomes Extension of Company Engineering Group, Helps Get Products to Market Faster

Featured Story: Q3 More Challenging for Truckload Carriers as Freight Volumes Slow

Increasing Number Looking to Intermodal, Dedicated, Instead of Straight Truckload

Manual Analysis Simply Cannot Compare with Using an Optimization Engine to Identify Best Combination of Carriers and Lanes

Featured Story: Walmart Will Test Potentially Breakthrough New Supercube Truck in Canada with 30% more Capacity

Minor Controversy Around Permits Accompanies the News; Walmart Says it Will be Happy to Share the Innovation

IHS Says Unconventional Oil and Gas Production will Revolutionized US Economy - But That Would Seem Hard to Achieve While Reaching CO2 Goals

Featured Story: CSCO Insights: Building the Supply Chain from the Shelf Back

Features Survey Data from More than 300 Manufacturers and Retailers; Technology and Processes Advances will Create a Key Inflection Point in the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain

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