Logistics Management - May 1, 2002

As the harsh lessons of the past 18 months have demonstrated, efficient and cost-effective logistics operations can play a role in determining which companies succeed and which ones fail. But as more organizations look to logistics as a basis for business competition, there is a greater need for managers to monitor the health of their logistics activities.

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Some restrictions will apply
• Lynch on Third-Party Logistics
• Make sure third parties are financially sound

• Departments
• Market Watch
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• Up Front
• An executive summary of industry news
• Viewpoint
• Two steps forward, one step back

• Features
• National LTL Services
• Split decisions
• Pacific Rim
• Trans-Pacific travails
• XML Update
• Is XML the next bit thing? (Maybe not for a while)

• GlobalLogistics
• International Insights
• A modest proposal for protecting intermodal cargo

• News
• Customs, importers join in anti-terror effort
• Auto ID
• UCC backs single container tag
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Intermodal
• After years of planning and construction, Alameda Corridor opens
• Labor
• Slowdown worries overshadow West Coast port talks
• Maritime
• OECD group calls for liner antitrust limits
• Regulation
• OSHA issues new ergonomics plan