Logistics Management - January 1, 2008

A confluence of economic circumstances has caused the transportation industry to cast a cold and watchful eye on rate forecasts for the coming year. While top industry analysts have been reluctant to quantify predictions, here's what their gut instincts are telling them.

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Parcel Express General Rate Increases: Know the variations
• Mulani on Excellence
• Logistics Strategy: Four trends supply chain leaders need to understand
• Sage Advice
• Transportation Management: The pendulum revisited
• Viewpoint
• Freight Rates: Uncertainty abounds

• Departments
• Management Update
• 'Tis the season for Teamster contracts
• Price Trends
• Freight Rates: Pricing across the transportation modes

• Features
• Logistics Strategy
• Logistics Strategy: Are you green yet?
• Special Report
• China Logistics: Anything but business as usual
• Supply Chain Technology
• Perfect harmony: Improving real-time data collection in your warehouse management system
• Transportation Trends
• LTL Best Practices: How STERIS consolidated LTL and saved millions
• Warehouse and DC
• Distribution Center (DC) Automation: Taking the plunge

• News
• Port Security Grant program to get full funding
• U.S. needs to spend intelligently on security without risking JIT inventory programs, experts say