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Feb. 16, 2022 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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MANUFACTURING

The Impact of Lean on Shareholder Value

Lean can help challenge assumptions and surface opinions that ultimately improve shareholder value

SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES

Don’t Give Up on Lean, Just-in-Time Inventory Quite Yet

Yossi Sheffi of MIT Says Companies May Be Overshooting New Inventory Buffers in the Face of Supply Disruptions

Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending Feb.11, 2022

See Who Was Up and Who Was Down

DISTRIBUTION AND MATERIAL HANDLING FOCUS

	AT&T Says it has Successful Initial Test of 5G Communication for Warehousing
	Any Lingering Concerns with WMS Cloud Response Times should Go Away when 5G is Ready

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN

Action in Market for Drone Air Cargo Vehicles

Nautilus Says it has $6 billion in Advanced Orders for Aircraft Due in 2025

RFID AND AUTO ID FOCUS

RFID, AIDC, and IoT News Round Up for Feb. 16, 2022

Macy’s Using RFID to Combat Surging Shoplifting Levels; Zebra Debuts Four New RFID Portals; Avery Dennison Acquires TexTrace

SOURCING AND PROCUREMENT FOCUS

In a Period of Rising Costs from Suppliers, what is a Procurement Manager to Do?

Interest is High, but Many Barriers to Success Exist, Bearingpoint Study Finds”

TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT FOCUS

Still More Positive News for Autonomous Trucks

TuSimple Gains First Autonomous Truck Service Customer

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