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The Long Road To Economic Recovery Is Fraught With Many Twists And Turns

Just When You Think Things Can’t Get Much Worse, The Earth Practically Swallows Haiti!

 
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Mark Twain once wrote – “There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist”. Still, I believe we need to occasionally look on the bright side. Given the state of the economy, plus recent natural disasters, that may be a bit of a challenge for some.

 

If that’s not enough to get you down – there’s the constant barrage of statistics. What’s a person to do when there’s hardly a week that goes by without some statistician warning us about this or that?


Who was it that said, “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure”?


Most of the recent “scientific” studies
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Cliff Holste is SCDigest's Material Handling Editor,
and author of our Sorting it Out Column/Blog
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Why the Time is Right for Labor Management Systems in Distribution




 

 
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Logistics News: What Does a Sortation System for Distribution Cost?
Baseline Systems Can Be Implemented for about $1 Million; Wal-Mart Level? Do not Ask
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New Materials Handling Tech Notes
 

The first analytic reports for the materials handling and distribution industry.

This report: Advances in Conveyor Technology increasing System Flexibility

 
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Labor Management System
(LMS) Overview

Present by SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore

View our Complete Labor Management System Resources Page

 
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Coming Soon - The New Era of Motor-Driven Roller (MDR) Technology in Conveyor Systems

Materials Handling Editor Cliff Holste Takes a Deep Look at this Rapidly Emerging Technology that May Soon Dominate the Market in this Important Videocast



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