Picking Up the Pieces of a Logistics Program. Many businesses regard logistics as a separate part of the competitive equation, far removed from components such as purchasing, manufacturing, and marketing. An integrated logistics strategy, however, can serve as a cost-cutting, value-adding tool in the supply chain.

Material Handling: Creating Quick Paths for Change. Controlling obsolescence, minimizing on-hand inventory, and ensuring equipment flexibility are important issues today's material handling engineers must address. One way to do so is to design "quick paths" that can smoothly facilitate change

Selecting Computer-Basergonomic Tools. Computer-based tools can provide an important vehicle for the effective dissemination and utilization of ergonomics principles in variety of working environments.