Logistics World: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
LOGISTICS: DOOR‐TO‐DOOR
PHILLIP HASTINGSWhere have the logistics of express delivery services been—and where are they going?
DRP RESTORES CORPORATE CONTROL
MICHAEL BUKINGHAMPlanned distribution is a management tool, not an irrelevant headache. Michael Buckingham reviews a conference designed to promote its application.
GOOD SERVICE: DEVELOPING A STRATEGY
ALAN BRAITHWAITEA consultant looks at the strategies employed to develop service parts logistics.
EDI: A STATUS REPORT
DAVID PALMEREDI is becoming a burgeoning industry in its own right. Here, an expert offers a vade‐mecum to the uninitiated.
EDI OR BUST?
STEPHEN McCLELLANDThe challenges of EDI are many and varied, according to consultant John Sanders. He told Stephen McClelland about some of them.
UNISYS INTEGRATES ITS LOGISTICS
BR CLAYTON, AW FAIRCLOUGH, TR HARTLogisticians explain how the computer giant routinely handles its international resourcing and delivery.
CIM‐BASED LOGISTICS AT IBM
JACK HENRY, CLARK PRESTONThe world's largest computer manufacturer is developing an Automated Logistics and Production System (ALPS).
LOGISTICS AT WORK IN MANUFACTURING
JACK HOLLINGUMDuring the past two years the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK has been sponsoring a series of seminars by the US management consultant Hal Mather on the application…
JIT — THE WAY TO BEAT INVENTORY
BRIAN W ROOKSThe philosophies of total quality and just‐in‐time are paying dividends for Digital Equipment Corporation particularly through inventory reduction, as Brian Rooks explains.
A COMBINATION LOGISTICS SYSTEM
W. KRIEGA systems specialist proposes a new high growth role for railways — as automated freight carriers.