Logistics Management - December 1, 1998

At H.J. Heinz Co., even presidents are accountable to supply-chain executives. Neil Harrison, president of the company's newly formed Heinz Frozen Food Co., will report to Richard H.

• 21st-century logistics
• The Value Imperative

• Augello on Law & Regulation
• End of the road for the NCC?

• Cooke on Technology
• Time for time-share software?

• Copacino on Strategy
• Masters of the Supply Chain

• FREIGHT GATEWAYS
• NAFTA at five years: Uneven progress

• Foster on Third-Party Service
• Contracts? We don't need no stinkin' contracts!
• Logistics Briefing
• People

• Freight Gateways
• How NAFTA Has Changed Site Selection in North America

• International News
• North America-Asia airfreight may recover slightly in '99

• LOGISTICS SOFTWARE
• Endangered species

• Logistics Online
• Online middlemen: Separating the good from the bad

• Market Watch
• Fuel
• Capital Equipment
• Rail
• Water
• Air
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• Trucking

• New Products & Services
• The ins and outs of distribution/consolidation services

• New Technology
• Upgrade Enables Net Planning
• System Designed for Distributive Label Printing
• Tool for Compliance Labels
• CIE America Unveils High-Res, Low-Cost Printer
• Export Help From AEI
• Camera Lets Two-Way Radios Transmit Pictures
• Software
• Supply Chain Application Link

• News & Analysis
• Union Pacific sells Skyway subsidiary
• Logistics Online
• Economic Outlook '99: Slow growth is better than no growth
• Bohman on Pricing
• New options for time-sensitive deliveries
• INTERNATIONAL
• New restrictions target import packaging from China
• Logistics Briefing
• People
• People
• Services
• People
• Services
• Services
• People
• Services
• People
• Services
• News Capsule
• Paving the way
• RAILROADS
• Agreements smooth the way for CN/IC merger
• REGULATION
• Engine builders agree to reduce emissions
• TRANSIT TIMES
• Demand takes toll on truckload performance

• Parting Shot
• Breaking my own rules

• SUPPLY-CHAIN CASEBOOK
• Start small, think big

• Technology News
• Kewill Systems Snaps Up Tracer Research
• Two ERP Vendors Combine Forces
• Another Consultant-WMS Alliance Announced
• Interlink Technologies Sold to Executive

• Transportation Intermediaries
• How David lives with Goliath

• Up Front
• Retread tires save North America more than $2 billion annually
• It's almost 1999
• Will freight save the passenger railroad?
• A new report says that managers at all levels
• From the driver retention/driver safety file:
• No miniature sleigh, but a brown truck:
• Looking for the perfect holiday gift
• The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland
• If you look to the north when you think of the North American Free Trade Agreement
• Jim Tompkins, president and founder of the consulting firm Tompkins Associates Inc., has finished his 13th book
• An executive summary of industry news
• The U.S. Supreme Court will allow five ex-employees of Conrail Inc.

• Vendor-Managed Inventory
• VMI: Very Mixed Impact?

• Viewpoint
• Science, the pure and the practical