Logistics Management - January 1, 2002

The war on terrorism has produced at least one unintended side effect—a wholesale rethinking of the way Corporate America moves and distributes freight. Now that the U.S. government has imposed stricter homeland security measures on carriers of all stripes, logistics managers could be forced to make big changes to their basic supply chain management practices.

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• Hazmat traffic-control system proposed