Logistics Management - May 1, 2001

Take any list of recent dot-com casualties, and Internet retailers—online grocers, in particular—are sure to figure prominently. Many times, their problems can be traced to logistics. A number of these dot-com merchants have foundered because they couldn't master the trick of picking individual items and then distributing those products direct to the consumer's door economically.

• Columns
• Augello on Law and Regulation
• The evolution of liability limitations
• Bohman on Pricing
• Check the Internet for volume pricing specials
• Currie on HazMat
• New IMDG rule could be troublesome

• Departments
• Market Watch
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• New Products and Services
• New Products & Services
• New Products & Services
• Up Front
• An executive summary of industry news
• Viewpoint
• The test of the times

• Features
• Heavy Air Cargo
• Friend or foe: Will airline alliances be good for shippers?
• Industry Awards
• Motor carriers honored by NASSTRAC
• Information Systems
• Software Makers Open a Window On Warehousing
• Logistics Trends
• Standard setter

• GlobalLogistics
• Developing Countries
• Out of (and into) Africa
• International Insights
• FTAA: The next battleground or just a warm-up?

• News
• Truckers traveling rough road
• Air Cargo
• Con-Way launches airfreight forwarder division
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Exchanges
• Global freight forwarders join SupplyLinks portal
• Fuel Costs
• Analyst: Diesel prices may drop this summer
• Logistics Briefing
• Services
• People
• Martime
• Carriers' antitrust immunity under fire again
• Ocean Shipping
• Capacity outstrips container demand
• Regulation
• U.S. shippers are satisfied with OSRA
• Warehousing
• WMS sales expected to double in five years
• Study offers "snapshot" of private warehouses
• Washington
• Rulings due on NCC and rate bureaus
• Winners Circle
• Winners Circle
• e-Commerce
• New group will promote global electronic trade

• Supplement
• Site Selection Supplement
• Site Selection Supplement: A Shift in Priorities