Logistics Management - November 1, 2004

It would have been easy enough to present the 2004 McCullough Logistics Executive of the Year Award to this year's winner solely for his tireless logistics initiatives at Cincinnati-based scrap-metal brokerage David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ). But add the fact that he's engineered a turnaround at the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) over the past year, and the decision became downright...

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• LTLs take a closer look at weights, measures, and descriptions
• Byrne on Excellence
• Global sourcing: A hallmark of the 21st-century business
• Parting Shot
• Waiting for Godot…and my own "pickup bot"

• Departments
• Management Update
• Management Update
• New Products
• New Products
• Services
• Price Trends
• Price Trends
• Viewpoint
• Embrace adaptation

• Features
• Global Logistics
• Yamaha tunes up its import operations
• Supply Chain Technology
• WMS: How much does it cost...really?
• Transportation Spotlight
• Railroads struggle to meet demand
• Warehouse and DC
• Weighing the power options

• News
• Driver shortage will boost truckload rates next year
• For the Record
• Freight Forwarders
• UPS snaps up Menlo's forwarding unit
• International
• New trade pacts make compliance easier for shippers
• Transportation
• Study finds cities are losing the race against gridlock
• Transportation Law
• Supreme Court hears multimodal liability case
• Warehousing
• Best-in-class go beyond four walls of the warehouse