Logistics Management - June 1, 2004

IP Strikes Gold While every entry for this year's Best Practices in Logistics Management Awards demonstrated effectiveness and achieved measurable improvements in efficiency, there was little doubt as to who would take the Gold. International Paper's (IP) warehouse tracking system won the top prize for successfully intertwining the old-fashioned forklift, cutting-edge radio frequency identifica...

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Challenges abound for truckload shippers
• Byrne on Excellence
• ERP vs. BoB: The new battle for software dollars
• Parting Shot
• Slice the pork out of the highway bill

• Departments
• Management Update
• Management Update
• Price Trends
• Price Trends
• Viewpoint
• Cutting through the RFID fog

• Features
• Global Logistics
• Greetings from Europe: Bring Cash!
• Supply Chain Technology
• TMS: now made to measure
• Transportation Spotlight
• Truckload rates kick into high gear
• Warehouse and DC
• "Daylighting" brightens up energy picture
• Saving the best for last

• News
• Is JIT dead?
• Distribution
• Incentives needed to promote off-peak deliveries
• Environment
• Diesel idling restrictions to raise carriers' costs
• International
• Deutsche Post buys Smartmail, QuikPak
• Logistics Briefing
• Services
• Motor Carriers
• California truckers press state legislature for fuel price breaks
• Transportation
• Survey: Shippers may cut transportation spending