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news

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Toyota enters brave new world of integrated fulfillment solutions USPS warns defection of three key customers could hurt package business Honeywell unveils e-commerce fulfillment tools UPS launches Saturday ground service across U.S. network Accolades: awards and recognition Report: E-commerce fulfillment growth driving up DC labor costs Groundbreakers: who’s building a new DC?

Oracle unveils four apps for supply chain automation FedEx enters battle for small-business fulfillment services market Mitsubishi and Jungheinrich form company to make lift truck parts

in every issue

1 ; inbound ;

Boxes and briefs: Industry news at a glance

68 ; rollouts ;

Spotlight on automated storage equipment

87 ; adindex ;

How to reach our advertisers

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

; Jim Bowes Peach State Integrated Technologies

; Earl Boyanton
Independent Consultant
; George Clopton
Polo/Ralph Lauren
; Peter Counihan
Fortna

; John A. Gentle
John A. Gentle & Associates, LLC
; Brian Gibson, Ph.D.

Auburn University
; Steve Inacker
Cardinal Health
; Richard Jackson
Mast Logistics

; C. John Langley Jr., Ph.D.

Penn State University
; Clifford Lynch
C.F. Lynch & Associates
; Karl Manrodt, Ph.D.

Georgia College & State University
; Scott Mc Williams
Geodis

; Christopher D. Norek, Ph.D.

Chain Connectors
; Richard H. Thompson
JLL

; Kate Vitasek University of Tennessee

voices

13 ; bigpicture ;

Automated trucks – not a bad idea ;

DAVID MALONEY

47 ; fastlane ;

Disrupting dystopia ;

CLIFFORD F. LYNCH

53 ; basictraining ;

Rumblings in the DC: The cost of runaway minimum wages ;

BY ART VAN BODEGRAVEN

88 ; outbound ;

Fred against the machine ;

MITCH MAC DONALD

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