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December 04, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Critical Strategy to Optimize Cost and Service

Manufacturing: Honda Must Focus on Manufacturing Excellence, not Just Product Excellence, Its President Says

Supply Chain Trends: What Makes a Good Inventory Buffer

Distribution and Material Handling: Highlights from the 18th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study Part 2

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Even as Rates Tank Again, European Commission Looking at Whether Container Carriers are Illegally Signaling Prices

RFID and Auto ID: Sudden JC Penney Retreat from RFID Led to Rash of Store Thefts

Sourcing and Procurement: The Timeless Procurement Challenge of Supplier Price versus Cost

Transportation: Update! Amazon Working on New Drone Delivery System, as Skeptics Abound

Green Supply Chain: Update - Battles at UN Climate Summit over Financial Transfers to Developed Economies

Research and Insight: New Research on Automated Case Picking in Distribution

New Cartoon Caption Contest for Nov. 12, 2013

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)

Deadline is 8:00 pm EST
Dec. 11th, 2011.

Winner announced in Dec. 12th 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: Honda Must Focus on Manufacturing Excellence, not Just Product Excellence, Its President Says

New Honda Factory in Japan Makes Broad Use of Robotics, Shaves 40 Minutes off Assembly Times; A Testing Lab for Factories Worldwide

Lower Cost US Factories Threat to Jobs Back Home; UAW Loves the Idea, but will the Workers Agree?

Featured Story: What Makes a Good Inventory Buffer

If You Don’t Set your Inventory Buffers Correctly, it Will Increase Other Costs

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Featured Story: Highlights from the 18th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study Part 2

Big Data and Logistics; New Talent for the New Normal; Profiting from Global Trade Management

Satisfaction of Shippers Continues to Rise, as Spend with Outsourcers Heads North; IT Gap Still There, but is Slowly Closing

Featured Story: Even as Rates Tank Again, European Commission Looking at Whether Container Carriers are Illegally Signaling Prices

Timing and Level of GRI Announcements are Amazingly Similar Across Euro Carriers, Alphaliner Finds

Related Content: Details of New P3 Network Emerging

28 Planned Loops Detailed - if Network Wins Regulatory Approval; Port Winners and Losers

Featured Story: Sudden JC Penney Retreat from RFID Led to Rash of Store Thefts

EAS Tags were Dropped in Favor of RFID - but then that Program Also Was Largely Abandoned; a $28+ Million Mistake

The Time of Year that Businesses Really Appreciate The Value of Voice Technology Solutions

Featured Story: The Timeless Procurement Challenge of Supplier Price versus Cost

Need to Understand Cost Drivers at Suppliers, and Manage for Total Supply Chain Costs

Philips CPO Cuts Procurement Fat; Characteristics of Successful Procurement Managers; Milliken Adopts Cloud-Based Direct Materials Tool

Featured Story: Update! Supply Chain News: Amazon Working on New Drone Delivery System, as Skeptics Abound

Bezos Makes Announcement on 60 Minutes; Could be Ready as Early as 2015; We Have the Video; Can Safety Issues Ever be Resolved?

Adding the Ability to Ship Air Changes the Trade-Off Between Cost and Service

Featured Story: Update - Battles at UN Climate Summit over Financial Transfers to Developed Economies

In the End, It is Always about the Money, Isn't it? Historical Responsibility for Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Japan, Australia Let Many Attendees Down, While Coal Takes a Pounding; Where will the $100 Billion Annual Climate Fund for Developing Countries Come from?

Featured Story: New Research on Automated Case Picking in Distribution

Be Part of Our Survey to Identify Obstacles and Opportunities in the Rapidly Developing Area of Logistics

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