Logistics Management - February 1, 2002

Like many companies nowadays, Square D uses its regional less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers for much more than just hauling freight from Point A to Point B. The Palatine, Ill.-based company, which makes electrical distribution, industrial control and automation products, has also contracted with its nine regional carriers for pool distribution service.

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Know the rules
• Copacino on Strategy
• CFM boosts efficiency and savings
• Lynch on Third-Party Logistics
• Price vs. value: The outsourcing conundrum

• Departments
• Market Watch
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• New Products and Services
• New Products and Services
• Up Front
• An executive summary of industry news
• Viewpoint
• Another day, another dollar

• Features
• 3PL
• Two sides of the same 3PL coin
• Global Logistics
• A new attitude
• Logistics Tech
• Warehouses unplugged

• News
• Why shippers need to audit the auditors
• For the record
• Associations
• NITL asks members to admit carriers, 3PLs
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Distribution
• Federated to drop Fingerhut
• Economics
• Study documents the value of speed
• Intermediaries
• Brokers group to establish new standards
• Materials Handling
• RFID sales expected to soar
• Transportation
• Roadway enters airfreight market