Growth Projections in Pictures; Forecasts for 24 Industrial Sectors

US Manufacturing Continues to Grow in Absolute Terms, but Most See Manufacturing Sector in Decline; Productivity Gains or Offshoring?

Qualitative Aspects of S&OP Starting to come to the Forefront, Baumann of JDA Says; Integrating S&OP with CPFR

Move to Unclutter Stores, Move more Upscale Deemed Failure, as Same Store Sales Keep Dropping; Renewed Focus on Price as Well; Will Other Retailers Follow Suit?

Operational Lead at Company, Technical Lead at Vednor Make All the Difference in Success; Project Managers at Vendors often Focused Now on Financial, not Operational Success

Key trends include the move to ''open'' software, and more packaged applications that reduce implementation costs.

Unlikely Find by Marine Sanctuary Leads to Carrier-Funded Research Project; Container Looks Perfect after Seven Years in the Briny Deep

Understanding Risks from the Suppliers of Suppliers; Parallel in Japan Disaster and Supply Chain Impact with the 2008 Financial Crisis?

Rush for Mobility Applications also Playing a Role; Is Hype Getting Out of Control Again?

Could RFID have Offered Major Payback to Manufacturers in Terms of Lower Invoice Deductions? Perhaps that is not the Path Retailers Really Wanted to Go

Sourcing from Minority-Owned Businesses has more than Doubled Since Program Started in 2003

Cost Cutting Seems Tactical and Buyers want to be Strategic, one CPO says, but Notes Cost Cutting is Often Strategic; Do Annual Reduction Targets Lead to Sandbagging?

Obama Administration Proposes New Plan after Shutting Down Bush Era Pilot in 2009; This Time, No Limit on Number of Trucks; Tracking them with GPS.

Maritime Administration Delivers a Report to Congress Citing Many Benefits of Increased Share of Freight Moves on the Maritime Highway; Europe Shows it Can Work

How Many Times are Re-Usables really Used? Report Findings being Repressed?

Company has Reduced Solid Waste by 33% and Water Usage by 9%; Sets Goal to Reduce Energy Used to Ship Pound of Product by 2015

''Earned Quantifiable Benefits'' is a Key Concept, says Barry Wildernan, to Finding Value

Barry Wilderman on why achieving real value from ERP and other enterprise software is hard - and a 5-stage model for making it happen.