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November 07, 2013 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Critical Strategy to Optimize Cost and Service

Manufacturing: Labor Shortage in Manufacturing Really is Getting Worse

Supply Chain Trends: Mid-Market Margin Management

Distribution and Material Handling: Material Handling Roadmap Takes a Peak at Logistics 2025

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Details of New P3 Network Emerging

RFID and Auto ID: Supply Chain Thought Leaders: The Keys to Voice Deployment Success

Sourcing and Procurement: Are Your Suppliers Running Full Tilt to Meet Demand? Quality May Suffer

Transportation: US Truckload Carriers Muster Decent Q3 Result Despite Lukewarm Freight Environment

Green Supply Chain: New Scientific Article Says Current Climate Models Highly Exaggerated, 20-30 More Years of Flat Temperatures Expected

Research and Insight: Automated Case Picking in Distribution Study

Last Chance! Cartoon Caption Contest for Oct. 16, 2013

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)

Deadline is 8:00 pm ET
Nov. 7, 2013

Winner announced in Nov. 11th SCDigest Newsletter
May the funniest man or woman win!
Have an idea for a cartoon? We would love that too, and will give you the credit.

Featured Story: Labor Shortage in Manufacturing Really is Getting Worse

Lack of Skilled Workers Likely will Combine with Aging Demographics to Cause Real Labor Challenges; Young Workers Disdain Manufacturing Jobs

UAW Focus is Less on Workers than External Opinion and Pressure; Protests at Dealerships in Brazil

Featured Story: Mid-Market Margin Management

Understanding Where Profits Really Come from Critical in Increasingly Complex Supply Chain World

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in Denver

Important New Research

Automated Case Picking 2013

Key Research Questions: Is interest in Automated Case Picking (ACP)
growing with the increasing number of proof points and
distribution challenges? What are the barriers - and the opportunities?

Please take our very short (8-minutes) survey.

Featured Story: Material Handling Roadmap Takes a Peak at Logistics 2025

Draft Report Identifies Key Trends Impacting Materials Handling and How Industry Must Respond

Related Content: Managing Change & Expectations

Lessons Learned from Big Government Blunders

Featured Story: Details of New P3 Network Emerging

28 Planned Loops Detailed - if Network Wins Regulatory Approval; Port Winners and Losers

Related Content:Building a Strategic Export Program

Recommendations to Avoid Vulnerabilities like Unseen Costs or Export Violations

Featured Story: The Keys to Voice Deployment Success

Some deployments are clearly more successful, easy, on-time and on-budget than others - and we know why

RFID Identity Theft a Growing Issue; RFID Market Keeps Growing Fast but Governments are Big Buyers; Saks Gets Near Perfect Display Compliance

Featured Story: Are Your Suppliers Running Full Tilt to Meet Demand? Quality May Suffer

New VP of Procurement at Ford Says Some Models at Yellow Level of Supplier Stress; How Many Companies Can Really Track that Today?

Two Firms Together Will Control near to 30% of Procurement Outsourcing Market; Other Smaller Providers Now in Play?

Featured Story: US Truckload Carriers Muster Decent Q3 Result Despite Lukewarm Freight Environment

Overall Profits Up Just 2.8%, but There Were Winners and Losers; New HOS Rules had an Impact, but in the Low Single Digits

Service Concerns a Thing of the Past, David Slates Says; a Four-Step Plan to Get There

Featured Story: New Scientific Article Says Current Climate Models Highly Exaggerated, 20-30 More Years of Flat Temperatures Expected

Global Temperatures Actually Doing the Stadium Wave?

EPA Smartway Winner for 2013 Expects Lower Costs, Reduced Emissions, and More Price Stability

Featured Story: New Research on Automated Case Picking in Distribution

Be Part of Our Survey to Identify Obstacles and Opportunities in the Rapidly Developing Field

How Companies Think about Growing Network Pressures - and Ways they can Effectively Respond. New Report from CSCO Insights.