Logistics Management - February 1, 2007

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• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Rate bureaus are cranking up their 2007 GRIs
• Byrne on Excellence
• Logistics in India: The other star in global operations
• Sage Advice
• Are you fully engaged in your transportation carrier relationship?
• Viewpoint
• Logistics Managers: It's Time for Sage Advice

• Departments
• Management Update
• Management Update
• New Products and Services
• Reader quickly decodes linear and 2-D bar codes
• Software automates pallet building
• Hybrid-engine walk-in van chassis debuts
• Price Trends
• Logistics Price Trends

• Features
• Global Logistics
• Bridging the supply chain and logistics cultural gap
• Retrospective
• Logistics and The Law: Remembering Bill Augello
• Supply Chain Technology
• Transportation management systems (TMS) step out of the shadows
• Transportation Trends
• Parcel Shippers: Get ready for sticker shock

• News
• House passes bill mandating 100 percent cargo inspection
• Annual Quiz
• Nokia’s Bahia de Moura is 2006 Logistics Management quiz winner
• Fuel Costs
• STB ruling changes railroads’ fuel-surcharge calculations
• Logistics Briefing
• Addendum to the 2007 Buyers Guide
• Motor Carriers
• ATA’s Graves: Feds abdicating transportation infrastructure funding

• Special Reports
• European Logistics
• New trade traditions