Supply Chain Digest

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Supply Chain Video News for Week of Sept. 12, 2011 Apparel Industry tries to Clean the Dirty Laundry in its Supply Chain; Exec from Electric Vehicles International on the Promise of All-Electric Delivery Trucks; International Paper to get Commanding Share of Packaging Market; Container Pioneer Dead at 92

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Logistics News: Cliff Holste on the Keys to Sortation System Success in Distribution Poor System Performance Almost Always the Result of Problems in the Concepting and Planning Stages, Holste Says

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Supply Chain News: New (to some) Class of Software Focused on Managing Short Term Supply and Demand. ''Response Management'' Can Help Both Top and Bottom Lines, Enabling More Real-Time Demand-Supply Matching; Like a Football Play Where the Coach can Keep Communicating with Each Player as the Action Unfolds

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Sept. 2, 2011 Stratospheric Prices for Rare Earth; Software Maintenance Fees Drive Revenues; Bulk Shipping Rate Collapse; $1.6 Billion in Solar Investment Gone Overnight - Including $500 Million from Taxpayers

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: Economic Outlook from the Federal Reserve Banks Four of Five Districts We Sampled had Weak July Numbers and Look Worrisome; Chicago Comes through with Stronger Data; From Here? Flip a Coin

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Supply Chain News: Can Commodity Prices Continue to Soar Amidst Weak Economic News? Some Predict Prices for Metals, Agricultural Goods Headed for Big Fall, but Others Note China Keeps Buying, Food Demand Outstrips Supply

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RFID and AIDC News: New Life for the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) in the End Somewhat Forgotten as RFID in Consumer Goods to Retail Floundered, the Standards for RFID Data Management Seeing a Comeback, Especially Overseas; US Retailers Just Starting to Get Interested

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Supply Chain Video News for Sept. 6, 2011 California Law Adds Legal Risk to Apparel Supply Chain; Brand Counterfeiting and IP Theft Moving to Organized Crime; New Supply Chain Chiefs at Boeing, Tria Beauty; 100 New All-Electrics at UPS

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Logistics News: The Load Control Center Continues to Evolve Opportunity Now for Many Shippers to Advance LCCs to Version 2.0, even as Many have Yet to Centralize

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Global Supply Chain News: China Continues to Flex Rare Earth Metals Muscle, as Companies Moving Fact Lighting Maker Intematix Would Have Preferred New Factory in California, but Heading to China Instead; Costs up Astronomically in Past Few Years

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting August 30, 2011 Show us your Supply Chain Wit!

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for Aug. 8, 2011 Contest Catherine Ochse of Graybar and Kevin Zweier of ChainalyticsTake Home the Honors froma bout 200 Entrants

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: Technology for Managing Network Inventories 63.8 Percent of Respondents in CSCO Insights Study Say Their Tools are Average or Worse

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of August 26, 2011 Green Energy Jobs Lacking; China Overtakes US in PCs; Freight Tonnage Slow Growth for a Decade; Goods News for Capital Goods Spending

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Supply Chain News: Across the Globe, Countries Trying to Rev Up Manufacturing Sector and Related Job Australia, India, Brazil, even China Look at Plans to Empower Domestic Manufacturing; In US, Sen. Feinstein Proposes $20 Bill in Loans to US Manufacturers Facing Subsidized Foreign Competition

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Supply Chain Video News for Week of Aug. 29, 2011 Series of Countries all Propose Plans for Manufacturing Sector Growth Last Week; New Report says Supplier Financial Risk still a ''Ticking Time Bomb''; Green Job Growth Disappoints, New York Times Says

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of August 19, 2011 US Factory Utilization Jumps; American Axle Shutting Two Factories over Failed Union Contracts; FMSCA Says EOBRs will Drive Big Savings for Carriers; Ocean Carriers Costs Rising in 2011

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: The Biggest Cargo Ships Sailing the Ocean Blue The Big Ships Keep Coming, with 50% Soon to Exceed 5100 TEU Capacity; Maersk Order 18,000-TEU Mega-Mega Ships and Upgrading S-Class Ships

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Green Supply Chain News: Clean Energy Jobs Continue to Disappoint, New Reports Say At Richmond Build, only 35 of 221 graduates of its clean energy program have found jobs in clean energy. Many more have found employment in traditional trades.

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Supply Chain News: ISM 2011 J. Shipman Award Winner Shelley Stewart on Procurement Careers, Lean an Chief Procurement Officer at Tyco International Says Better Managing Risk will be Key Skill Area in Next Few Years

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RFID and Auto ID News: Honeywell Vaults to Major Wireless Terminal Provider for Supply Chain Applica Where did All the Old Wireless Terminal Providers Go? Honeywell Challenge will be Merging Its Go-to-Market Strategies with ''High Touch'' LXE Model

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Gartner Methodology for Rating Top Supply Chain Schools may not be Perfect, but is Much Better than. Gartner Survey of Real Supply Chain Professionals is Key, Klock Argues; Many Difference in the Two Top Tens

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Logistics News: DC Associates Say Wearable Wireless Terminals Offer Big Productivity and Ergonomic G Associates from WESCO Distribution and OHL on What is Better About Wearables in DC Environments versus Traditional Handhelds

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Video Supply Chain News for Week of Aug. 22, 2011 Consumer-Driven Supply Chains at P&G; The Big Ocean Ships are Getting Bigger; Home Depot Execs Cite Supply Chain Performance in Q2 Earnings Report; Supply Chain Innovation Award Finalists, plus the Supply Chain Week in Numbers

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Logistics News: Sears Builds Powerful Transportation Scorecard, and Shares Experiences on How to Get Data Organization is as Important as the Data Itself; Every Number Should be Relative to Something, Sears Says

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Global Logistics News: Despite Low Growth Shipping Environment, Big Containerships Keep Coming Maersk, with 18,000 TEU Mega-Mega Ships on Order, Upgrading Existing S-Class Ships to Hold Even More; Predicted Container Shortage for 2H 2011 not Occurring, Alphaliner Says

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The Supply Chain Television Channel and CSCMP Launch New Weekly Video Supply Chain News Program First Broadcast Very Well Received; Continuing theTrack Record of Innovationfrom SCDigest while Adding New Service for CSCMP Members

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Supply Chain News: Gartner Names Top 10 Industrial Supply Chains Emerson Electric Comes Out on Top, but Industrial Companies Score Fairly Low Overall; Do Industry Dynamics Mean its Supply Chains aren't as Good?

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RFID and Auto ID News: Is Item-Level Apparel Tagging Going Strong, Fading, or Just Catching Its Brea Macys Says it will Wait Until More Retailers Agree to Require Tagging; Just a Natural Lull Between Phases of Very Active Program, says one Expert

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This Week's Viideo Supply Chain News for Aug. 15, 2011

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of August 12, 2011 LTL Carriers try to Right Pricing Ship; Need a Job? Burlington Northern Hiring; WalMart Sets Next Wave RFID Deadline; CSX Pouring it Back In

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: Creating the Perfect One-Page Supply Chain Report Excellent Example of How the One-Page Approach can Improve Communication and Understanding, Whether In Lean Projects or Not