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December 16, 2015 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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MANUFACTURING

US Manufacturers Reasonably Bullish on 2016 Despite Recent Slow Down

ISM Panel on Average Expects Top Line Growth of 4.1%, versus Increase of Just 1.4% in 2015

SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES

Supply Chain by Design: Machine Learning and High Quality Potato Chips

Machine Learning Algorithms are Popping up in all Kinds of Places, Including a Cool Application in the Making of Potato Chips

New White Paper

Warehouse Management in the Cloud

is Ready for Prime Time

New Approach to Cloud WMS Technology and Growing Number of
Proof Points are Changing the Game

DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIAL HANDLING FOCUS

Supply Chain News: Is Working in a DC like Toiling in the Gulag?

Undercover Report by UK Paper Finds DC Job is Tough, Demeaning - Is that Just the Way it Is?

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN

Supply Chain News Makers Video Series: Are We Making Progress on Total Landed Cost Calculation?

Fewer than One in Four Complanies Say They aee Very Good in Calculating Total Landed Costs: Our Expert Panel Discusses this Key Issue

RFID AND AUTO ID FOCUS

Datalogic Wins 2015 AIM Award for Applying High Speed Grocery Store Bar Code Scanner Portal to Returns Processing

Netherlands 3PL Simon Loos Automates Scanning of Returns from In-Store Displays

SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT FOCUS

Consultants all Seem to Agree, Top Performing Procurement Organization Deliver a Lot More than the Average One

How Results are Calculated not Clear, but Four Different Studies Show Big Variance on Returns from Procurement Based on Skill Levels

TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT FOCUS

The New US Highway Bill - What's in It, What Isn't?

Bill in the End Largely Maintains the Status Quo, with Several Key Changes Sought by Transport Sector Out of Final Legislation

GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN

UN Climate Summit Delivers Global Agreement, but Reality is Far Different than the Rhetoric

Pledges to Reduce CO2 Emissions Voluntary, No Real Enforcement Mechanism - Will China and India Really Play Ball?

RESEARCH AND INSIGHT

New SCDigest Benchmark Study on State of Retailer-Vendor Relationships

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