Logistics Management - June 1, 2008

Craig Cover, the truckload team’s logistics manager Frank Dreischarf, and the entire truckload sourcing team at Ashland Inc. are this year’s Logistics Management Best Practices Gold Medal winners. The formation of the team and the unified TL transportation program have helped the company make decisions based solely on what’s best for the overall company—not one particular division. In the first year alone, Ashland reduced its line-haul costs for TL shipments by 5 percent.

• Columns
• Andel on Distribution
• Warning about forklift weight gain
• Mulani on Excellence
• Five “good behaviors” that are key to global sourcing
• Viewpoint
• Logistics Best Practices Awards: And the winners are...

• Departments
• Management Update
• Management Update
• Price Trends
• Price Trends

• Features
• Logistics Management Best Practices Silver Award: Harper Brush Makes a Clean Sweep
• Logistics Management Best Practices Bronze Award: Sun Microsystems Reels in the Best Bids
• Global Logistics
• Emerging Market Strategy: Managing in Flux
• Supply Chain Technology
• Global trade management: Can you see me now?
• Transportation Trends
• Bulk/break-bulk shipping: Preparing for resurgence
• Warehouse and DC
• 22 more cheap tricks for increased distribution center (DC) or warehouse productivy

• News
• DHL
• DPWN rolls out plans for DHL Express U.S. restructuring
• Less-Than-Truckload
• Jevic Transportation halts operations
• Transportation Infrastructures
• “P3” backers push appeal for higher transport, infrastructure spending—but with higher costs