Ticker Tapeworm
Will the Sarbanes-Oxley Act signed on July 30 make a real difference to federal securities law? Yes, absolutely, says Bruce Beebe, editor of Directorship,
Shipping/Delivery
Doing the Time Warp
Book buyers may be partying like it’s 1999, but is Buy.com’s free shipping policy a good idea? You can’t download dog food. If we learned nothing else
Stop the Clock!
A person’s mettle is measured by what he or she undertakes and values during lean times. Historians may well say of the Internal Nineties that the mistakes
opinion & response
What’s the Deal? John Lenser’s August Small Catalogs Forum article (Finding Gold in Segments of Dross) causes me to question whether I understand him
Bombay Tonic
Software supplies the fizz in home furnishings retailer Bombay Company’s distribution cocktail. Thanks to programs that allow better merchandise forecasting
Political Froth
Now that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has officially indicted infectious greed as the cause of corporate misdeeds, it’s time to sit back and think about
SHIP of TOOLS
Any port may suffice in a storm, but a successful captain will avoid bad weather whenever possible and carry the necessary tools to keep everything sailing
On the Money
Money has its uses, but some things are, well, priceless. Firmly in that category is Warehousing Salaries and Wages: 2002 Data, a brand-new report from
Cycle Dynamics
What goes around comes around in the material handling business. Although material handling equipment manufacturing will decline 12%-14% in 2002, full-year
POWER SURGE
IT heads are no longer sitting in the dark. At this time in 2001, information technology was stuck in limbo, with spending pretty much stagnant as CIOs