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November 28, 2012 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

Protect Your Supply Chain: Compliance. Protection. Continuity.

Best Practices: Free Supply
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Manufacturing: US Manufacturing Still Has Not Come All the Way Back from Recession, While Fate of Different Sectors Varies Dramatically

Supply Chain Trends : Sixth Annual Gartner-SCDigest Study Will Provide Window into Connection Between Business Strategy and Supply Chain Technology

Distribution and Material Handling: Should E-Commerce Fulfillment and Regular Distribution Be Housed in the Same Distribution Center? Part 2

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: As Threat of East and Gulf Coast Port Strike Once Again Looms, Archaic Container Royalty System Could be the Deal Breaker or Maker

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 LTL and Rail Carrier Results and Trends

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

Last Chance! 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)

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Deadline is 8:00 pm EST
Nov. 29, 2011

Winner announced in Nov. 30th SCDigest Newsletter
May the funniest man or woman win!
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Featured Story: US Manufacturing Still Has Not Come All the Way Back from Recession, While Fate of Different Sectors Varies Dramatically

Only Three Sectors in Our Pool Are Currently Above Pre-Recession Levels of Output; Data Shows how Apparel, Furniture Production Has been Devastated

New Boston Consulting Group Research Says Yes, but Will it Hold True at the Moment of Truth at the Store Shelf?

Featured Story: Sixth Annual Gartner-SCDigest Study Will Provide Window into Connection Between Business Strategy and Supply Chain Technology

Research has Now Become One of the Most Important Studies in the Supply Chain Discipline; As Always, Complimentary Gartner Reports Available to Respondents

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? Part 2

Start with a Few Basic Questions, Gilmore and Schneider Say; Can You and Should You?

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

Featured Story: As Threat of East and Gulf Coast Port Strike Once Again Looms, Archaic Container Royalty System Could be the Deal Breaker or Maker

Both Sides Appear to be Digging In, As Port Efforts to Rein In Costly Bonus Program Off the Table, Union Says

Record TEU Deliveries for 2013, but Capacity Growth is Slowing; Good News for Shippers, no Matter How You Slice It

It's Time Once Again!

6th Annual Gartner-SCDigest Supply Chain Study

Fast, Easy. Important.

Respondents will Receive Complimentary Gartner Research,
Worth Several Hundred Dollars Each
Your Choice of Three Outstanding Reports

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 LTL and Rail Carrier Results and Trends

YRC Seems to have Really Righted Its Financial Ship; Rail Carriers Sure Not Sharing Efficiency Gains with Shippers

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

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.