Logistics Management - April 1, 2001

In the Internet age, Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken its parts distribution into the virtual realm. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer maker last year closed two parts-distribution centers run by its third-party logistics (3PL) company. To replace the functions provided by those DCs, it then had the same 3PL take over management of an information network that tied its suppliers and 100-plus ...

• Columns
• Augello on Law and Regulation
• Let's get rid of the crooks in transportation!
• Bohman on Pricing
• Should you become your company's protective packaging adviser?
• Lynch on Third-Party Logistics
• Be a good partner

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• You can take it with you
• Latin American Distribution
• Here, there, or everywhere?
• Parcel and Express Carriers
• Goliath VS. Goliath

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• Canada's customs plan could ease border crossings

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• Qualcomm buys FleetAdvisor
• NTE facilitates wireless trades
• Software vendors ink deals to integrate their apps

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• NITL announces rail-reform campaign
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• Supreme Court: Clean air has no price tag
• Fuel Prices
• Diesel prices drop, but OPEC cuts production
• International Trade
• Supreme Court declines to rule on HMT issues
• Logistics
• Cardinal shifts focus
• Logistics Briefing
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• UPS to acquire Mail Boxes Etc.
• Milestones
• John Fraley, former Carolina Freight CEO, dies
• Policy
• Will tomorrow's transportation system be viable?
• Railroads
• NITL says it will support CN's purchase of Wisconsin Central
• Workplace Safety
• New ergonomics regulations forthcoming?

• Supplements
• Supplement
• The State of e-Logistics