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featured Stories
Manufacturing: SABMiller Finds that Less is Sometimes More When it Comes to Supply Chain Planning System Success

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Will US Global Trade Increasingly Move Through Gulf Ports?

Distribution and Material Handling: Building a Performance Culture in Distribution

Transportation: Shipper Group Proposes New Rules to STB to Regulate Rail Carriage Through ''Reciprocal Switching''

Supply Chain Trends: Goya Foods Shows Path to Success for Mid-Market Companies from New Supply Chain Planning Tools

Procurement and Sourcing: How can Companies Most Effectively Outsource Innovation to Suppliers?

RFID and Auto ID: Will Bar Code Base Self-Scanning Systems Doom Item-Level RFID Tagging in CPG to Retail?

Green Supply Chain: As Australia Announces Plan for Carbon Tax, Fallout and Impact on Economy and Business There is Unclear

Research and Insight: Supply Chain Executive Brief: Five Strategies for Reducing Supply Chain Network Inventories


New AberdeenGroup Benchmark Report on Supply Chain Visibility Excellence


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Manufacturing
Featured Story: SABMiller Finds that Less is Sometimes More When it Comes to Supply Chain Planning System Success

Brewer Takes Time Out in Mid-Project to get its Arms Around Model Complexity, Data Accuracy, and People Skills

Related Content: Proposed New NLRB Rules Would Streamline Unionization Process, Strongly Opposed by Most Business Groups

Faster Time to Election Thought to Give Advantage to Labor

supply chain Trends and issues
Featured Story: Goya Foods Shows Path to Success for Mid-Market Companies from New Supply Chain Planning Tools

Out of Stocks Reduced by 60%; As Software Gets Easier, will More Mid-Market Companies Upgrade their Supply Chain Tool Sets?

Related Content: Supply Chain Legend Dr. Don Bowersox of Michigan State University Dies from Bout with Cancer

Author of First Logistics Textbook Influenced Thousands in his Career; Helped Start what is Today CSCMP; Dead at 79 in Michigan


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distribution and material
Featured Story: Building a Performance Culture in Distribution

Beyond Just Labor Management; We Offer a Definition

Related Content: Where Does the Intelligence Belong in Automated Material Handling Systems?

Almost Always Just in the WMS, Fralick Says, not the WCS, but at Least Makes Sure there isn't Some in Both

Global supply chain and logistics
Featured Story: Will US Global Trade Increasingly Move Through Gulf Ports?

Variety of Economic, Political and Supply Chain Factors May Lead to Change in US Trade Dynamics; Rise of Third US Coast?

Related Content: US FDA Announces Broad Program to Help it Keep Up with Increasingly Impossible Demands for Protections Against Tainted Imports

Long Supply Chain Journey of Tuna Can; Agency Announces Four Pillars of New Strategy the Focus Heavily on Collaboration and IT; Says it Cannot Meet the Requirements of 2011 Food Safety Act with Status Quo



RFID
Featured Story: Will Bar Code Base Self-Scanning Systems Doom Item-Level RFID Tagging in CPG to Retail?

Increasing Number of Retailers Giving Mobile Wireless Devices to Consumers and Telling them to Scan Away; 10% Bump in Sales per Visit

Related Content: Ready for Some RFID Tags with your Oatmeal?

New NutriSmart Prototype from London Researcher Would Track Eating Habits and Food Safety - with Digestible Tags Right in the Food; Taking the Internet of Things in Entirely New Directions

sourcing and procurement focus
Featured Story: How can Companies Most Effectively Outsource Innovation to Suppliers?

Like Make or Buy Decision, but Different; A Framework for Analysis of When to Outsource Innovation

Related Content: Time for Regional Sourcing Models?

Supply Chain Woes from Japan Earthquake were Predictable, Given the Misapplication of Lean; Rational, Regional, Practical Supply Chains



transportation
Featured Story: Shipper Group Proposes New Rules to STB to Regulate Rail Carriage Through ''Reciprocal Switching''

Detailed Proposal for New Rules Likely to Be Successful, Experts Say, Forcing the Hand of the STB; New BNSF Option for Houston Chemical Makers Captive to UP?

Related Content: Hours of Service Now Down to Battle of the Academics

FMCSA Releases Several Studies Supportive of HOS Changes, but ATA Research Expert Questions Results

transportation
Featured Story: As Australia Announces Plan for Carbon Tax, Fallout and Impact on Economy and Business There is Unclear

World will Watch Australian Experiment to Impose $25 per Metric Ton Tax; Carbon Tax to Evolve to Cap and Trade Scheme in 2016

Related Content: Flat Temperatures Globally from 1998-2008 Despite Rising CO2 Levels Can be Explained by Cooling Effect of Chinese Sulfur Emissions

New Study Says Pollution Canceled Out Effects of CO2, Let Natural Forces Drive Temperatures; Research Needed to Quiet Skeptics, Report Says

transportation
Featured Story: 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.

Related Content: Insights from the JDA Supply Chain Assessment Tool 2011

CSCO Insights does the analysis on data taken from the JDA Software supply chain self-assessment database to shed light on current levels of supply chain performance.

   
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