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January 03, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter
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Achieving Exceptional B2B Integration

Creating Business Advantage Through Smart IT


Manufacturing: Designing a Lean Transformation Program
Supply Chain Trends: Integrating Supply Chain Network Design Tools into Sales and Operations Planning
Distribution and Material Handling: Task Management versus Task Interleaving in Warehouse Management Systems
Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Strike at East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted Again, After Container Royalty Fee Issue Resolved
RFID and Auto ID: Co-Inventor of Bar Code Concept Dies
Sourcing and Procurement: Global Industrial Giant Siemens Says Procurement Improvements Driving Billions (with a B) to the Bottom Line
Transportation: Does Alleged FedEx Overbilling Reinforce Need for Parcel Freight Bill Auditing?
Green Supply Chain: UN Climate Change Talks in Doha Continue Downward Trend
Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization

Cartoon Contest
Last Chance! Christmas Cartoon Caption Contest for Dec. 3, 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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Jan. 3, 2013.
Winner announced in Jan. 4 SCDigest Newsletter
May the funniest man or woman win!
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Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain Comment: Designing a Lean Transformation Program
What Separates Lean Leaders and Laggards?
Related Content: Supply Chain News: 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

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain Network Design: Integrating Supply Chain Network Design Tools into Sales and Operations Planning
More and More Companies See the Value; New Product Helps Determine what Marketing Campaigns Deliver Bottom Line Results
Related Content: Supply Chain News: Trouble in Bentonville, as Walmart Bribery Scandal Resurfaces in Big Way
New York Times Details Bribery Strategy in Mexico, as Walmart Said to be Finding Problems Across the Globe
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Logistics News: Task Management versus Task Interleaving in Warehouse Management Systems
Task Engine is at the Core of WMS Capabilities; Interleaving Is not for Everyone, but Can Drive Large Productivity Gains
Related Content:Logistics News: Batch Picking and Sortation Systems in Distribution
Understanding How Batch Picking Delivers ROI from Sortation System Investment; Throughput Increases Can be Just as Important as Operational Savings

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Global Supply Chain News: Strike at East and Gulf Coast Ports Averted Again, After Container Royalty Fee Issue Resolved
Details Unclear, but Royalty Payments to Stay, ILA Says; Contract Extended Another 30 Days to Work Out Other Details
Related Content:Global Supply Chain News: Here Comes the ''Container Cliff''
Talks at Standstill for East and Gulf Coast Port Workers; Dated Royalty Payment Program Still at Heart of Impasse; Will Obama Intervene?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: RFID and Auto ID News: Co-Inventor of Bar Code Concept Dies
Pioneering Work by Joseph Woodland Directly Connected to Inventory of UPC Code; Lines in the Sand Lead to Big Idea
Related Content:RFID and AIDC News: First Students, Now the Vatican - Is Use of RFID for Continuous Tracking of Humans an Inevitability?
After Texas Schools Controversy, Vatican Says it Is Deploying RFID-based Tracking System for Staff after Embarrassing Document Theft

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Supply Chain News: Global Industrial Giant Siemens Says Procurement Improvements Driving Billions (with a B) to the Bottom Line
Supply Chain Chief Barbara Kux Making Good on her 60-25-20 Plan
Related Content: Supply Chain News: 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?
Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Logistics News: Does Alleged FedEx Overbilling Reinforce Need for Parcel Freight Bill Auditing?
Case Important One for the Parcel Industry to Watch, Says Jerry Hempstead; Cannott Believe FedEx Would Risk Reputation Over Nickle and Dime Issues, As Suit Alleges
Related Content: Logistics News: Is the War on Trucking Being Waged?
Yes, Says Mike Regan, Though there is a Short Lull Right Now; Carriers Also Focused on Getting More Revenue Per Shipment, Increasingly Through Fees

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: Green Supply Chain News: UN Climate Change Talks in Doha Continue Downward Trend
Just 37 Countries Extend Kyoto Agreement; Is it About C02 Emissions – or the Money?
Related Content: Green Supply Chain News: Amid Doha Gloom, News that CO2 Levels Keep Rising
Major Accord Seems Unlikely at 2012 UN Climate Meetings, as Some Say Rising CO2 Levels May Make Soon Make it Too Late to Keep Temperatures Manageable

Manufacturing Focus
Featured Story: CSCO Insights: The Value of Vendor Compliance Optimization
Analysis of where and how customers of vendor compliance optimization/management solutions find value from the software.
Related Content: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories
How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.
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