Logistics Management - June 1, 2009

It's an age-old problem in logistics: How do you manage a yard full of trailers and eliminate the costly, manual, labor-intensive method of driving around the lot looking for a specific load? That was certainly the problem Scott Buss, research manager of corporate research and engineering at Kimberly-Clark Corp.

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