OCTOBER 2013
VOLUME 11 NO. 10
inside
32 Getting in the “zone”:
interview with Dino Scott
BY MARK B. SOLOMON
Foreign Trade Zones can be a boon to international
business, but many U.S. firms refuse to capitalize on the
opportunity. Blount International has taken the plunge,
and Dino Scott is leading the effort.
34 Ace says Afghanistan is
the place
BY STEVE GEARY
In partnership with a local firm—one with a firm grasp
of logistics—Ace Hardware will open its first hardware
store in Afghanistan next year.
41 Mailing in the future
BY MARK B. SOLOMON
The Postal Service’s revamp of Priority Mail signals a
serious push to dominate e-commerce deliveries and to
chart its course for the decades to come.
46 Linking tools to lift labor
productivity
BY PETER BRADLEY
Genco’s operation on behalf of a major customer
already ran well. But linking labor management and
lift truck management systems yielded further
improvements.
48 Emerging logistics hot spots:
The Northeast
BY SUSAN K. LACEFIELD
; Boasting prime locations near efficient
transportation infrastructures, Central New Jersey
and Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley were born to run
distribution centers.
57 Milking benefits from an AS/RS
BY PETER BRADLEY
To help manage the flow of outbound goods from its
Utah plant, yogurt giant Dannon built a new warehouse
featuring an automated storage and retrieval system.
The result? Annual cost savings of over $3 million.
