Logistics World: Volume 2 Issue 2

APPLYING AI TO LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

BRINDLEY REYNAUD

Blue sky technology or a pragmatic response to competitive pressures? An expert explains how artificial intelligence is helping logistics.

KBS: POTENTIAL FOR LOGISTICS?

STEVE M. CLOSS, OMAR KEITH HELFERICH, STEVEN J. YOUNG

Consultants give some ideas on how expert systems could be applied together with applications currently being implemented.

EUROPE: GETTING IN ON THE ACT

DAVID ROBINSON

1992 will present logisticians and distributors with some of the most far‐reaching challenges for decades, as an observer explains.

ECLC gets to grips with Europe

STEPHEN McCLELLAND

A new organisation, the European Consortium of Logistics Consultants, looks like providing a much‐needed multinational dimension to home‐based manufacturers.

EDI: ACROSS EUROPE

More than 20,000 European companies will become EDI friendly this year. John Sanders reviews the progress of Electronic Data interchange across the continent.

DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES FOR THE 1990s

ANDREW L. WOOD

Undoubtedly, distribution strategies are changing. But how?

JAPANESE MANUFACTURERS GET IT TOGETHER

N. NAKATA

A pre‐eminent manufacturing power, Japan, has only recently begun to implement logistics on a domestic scale, as this article specially written and translated for Logistics World…

AUSTIN ROVER, BRS and JIT

JACK HOLLINGUM

A collaborative project shows how serious the auto maker is about just‐in‐time.

CLASSIFICATION AND DESIGN OF ORDER PICKING

MARC GOETSCHALCKX, JALAL ASHAYERI

Two researchers suggest a new approach to the most fundamental warehousing operation of all.

WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION — A FINANCIAL CASE

GORDON FROSDICK

Intelligent use of automation is set to make hard cost savings for warehouses.

LINING UP FOR LOGISTICS BENCHMARKING

Logistics World and AT Kearney announce a new initiative starting in this issue of LW.