DOING BUSINESS

By Staff -- Logistics Management, 9/1/2000

Recent major contract announcements include:

• Logistics solution provider Circle International has signed an exclusive contract to handle all airfreight consolidation for golf equipment and accessories distributor Pan-West (Pte) Ltd. of Singapore.

• EGS Electrical Group has selected supply chain solutions provider Intrepa's warehouse management system, Logistics PRO. The new WMS will be implemented in seven facilities that currently have manual systems.

• Integrated Business Systems & Services Inc. has announced that it will market and integrate Symbol Technologies' wireless LAN, hand-held computing, and bar-code scanning products.

• UPS Logistics Group company and provider of customer-centric delivery management solutions Roadnet Technologies Inc. has joined Symbol Technologies Inc.'s Partner Program to integrate Symbol's hand-held computers with Roadnet's Mobilecast software.

• Eaton Corp.'s Trucking Information Services has announced that Dillon Transport of McCook, Ill., has purchased Fleet Advisor systems for its entire fleet. Fleet Advisor is a logistics management system that features a satellite communications service.

• Sharp Electronics Corp. has decided to use Celarix Inc.'s Visibility application to manage its inbound domestic and international product movements by centralizing purchase-order and shipment information.

• The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. has signed a multi-year transportation contract with Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America Inc. Under the agreement, BNSF becomes the primary rail transportation provider for Mitsubishi cars, trucks, and SUVs in the western United States.

• UPS Logistics Group has announced it will provide logistics services for Bccomponents, a manufacturer of passive electronic components.

• PNV Inc. signed a two-year agreement with Tyson Foods Inc. to provide its bundled telecommunications and Internet services for Tyson's over-the-road (OTR) fleet of 954 trucks.

• United Airlines has signed a lease with Alaska CargoPort that will increase warehouse space for the airline's Anchorage cargo operations to 10,000 square feet. The airline also has the option to lease four permanent wide-body aircraft parking positions.

• Rockwell Automation Power Systems has selected Emery Worldwide, a subsidiary of CNF Inc., to provide transportation, customs brokerage, and logistics services in Australia for its Rockwell Dodge business unit, which supplies mechanical power-transmission products.

• USF Processors, a logistics subsidiary of USFreightways Corp., has signed an agreement with Oshman's Sporting Goods Inc. to provide reverse logistics services to the company's 56 sporting-goods stores.