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December 05, 2012 - Supply Chain Digest On-Target Newsletter

Protect Your Supply Chain: Compliance. Protection. Continuity.

Best Practices: Free Supply
Chain Risk Webinar

Manufacturing: US Manufacturing Still Has Not Come All the Way Back from Recession, While Fate of Different Sectors Varies Dramatically

Supply Chain Trends: Supply Chain Thought Leadership: Understanding Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

Distribution and Material Handling: Are there Hard to Find Workflow and Screenflow Inefficiencies in Your DC Operations?

Global Supply Chain and Logistics: Update! Strike at Ports of LA and Long Beach Ends, as Office Workers Union Seems to Win the Negotiations; Attention Now Turns to East Coast Port Threat

RFID and Auto ID: First Students, Now the Vatican - Is Use of RFID for Continuous Tracking of Humans an Inevitability?

Sourcing and Procurement: Global Industrial Giant Siemens Says Procurement Improvements Driving Billions (with a B) to the Bottom Line

Transportation: Q3 LTL and Rail Carrier Results and Trends

Green Supply Chain: Amid Doha Gloom, News that CO2 Levels Keep Rising

Research and Insight: CSCO Insights: Building the Supply Chain from the Shelf Back

New 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)

See Full Size Cartoon
and Send Entry

Deadline is 8:00 pm EST
Jan 3, 2012.

Winner announced in Jan. 4th 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: 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

New Boston Consulting Group Research Says Yes, but Will it Hold True at the Moment of Truth at the Store Shelf?

Featured Story: Supply Chain Thought Leadership: Understanding Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization

Interview with Inventory Optimization Pioneer Dr. Sean Willems on what IO Sotware is, Strategic versus Tactical IO, Rightsizing Inventory and More

Research has Now Become One of the Most Important Studies in the Supply Chain Discipline; As Always, Complimentary Gartner Reports Available to Respondents

Featured Story: Are there Hard to Find Workflow and Screenflow Inefficiencies in Your DC Operations?

Opportunities can be Difficult to Spot, but Can Deliver Real Productivity Gains; Key Question - How Configurable is Your WMS with Regard to RF Screenflow? 30% Gain in Cart Picking

Start with a Few Basic Questions, Gilmore and Schneider Say; Can You and Should You?

Featured Story: Update! Strike at Ports of LA and Long Beach Ends, as Office Workers Union Seems to Win the Negotiations; Attention Now Turns to East Coast Port Threat

Ports Agree to End Outsourcing and Provide Lifetime Job Guarantees; Will Total Comp Really go to $195,000 Annually?

Both Sides Appear to be Digging In, As Port Efforts to Rein In Costly Bonus Program Off the Table, Union Says

6th Annual Gartner-SCDigest Supply Chain Study

Fast, Easy. Important.

Respondents will Receive Complimentary Gartner Research,
Worth Several Hundred Dollars Each
Your Choice of Three Outstanding Reports

Featured Story: 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

Software Controls will Manage the Movements Horizontally and Vertically; Up to 25% Efficiency Gains, Jungheinrich Says

Featured Story: 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

Green Makes the Headlines, but Alternative Sources Could Also Reduce Business Risk; KC Looks to Grow Bamboo?

Featured Story: Q3 LTL and Rail Carrier Results and Trends

YRC Seems to have Really Righted Its Financial Ship; Rail Carriers Sure Not Sharing Efficiency Gains with Shippers

Increasing Number Looking to Intermodal, Dedicated, Instead of Straight Truckload

Featured Story: 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

Minor Controversy Around Permits Accompanies the News; Walmart Says it Will be Happy to Share the Innovation

Featured Story: CSCO Insights: Building the Supply Chain from the Shelf Back

Features Survey Data from More than 300 Manufacturers and Retailers; Technology and Processes Advances will Create a Key Inflection Point in the Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain

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