PC Mall buys solutions provider
Computer cataloger PC Mall has agreed to buy substantially all the assets of technology solutions provider Wareforce out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The
Warehouse/Distribution Center
Wine With Everything
When you’re stuck with a lemon, you make lemonade, but what do you do with sour grapes? Make wine, of course. When a merger between two Web-based wine
IDENTITY CRISIS
FUEL PRICES AREN’T THE ONLY SHIPPING COSTS going up these days. Even if operations executives devote themselves wholeheartedly to penny pinching, the
Fab Five
The results are in, and the winners are clear. According to a Warehousing Education and Research Council survey conducted in July 2001, there are only
NOT SO GRIM
With the regularity of swallows returning to Capistrano, less-than-truckload carriers seem to announce rate increases every year. The practice is so common
PC Connection, PC Mall Make Acquisitions
In the space of nine days, two computer catalogers PC Connection and PC Mall announced acquisitions. On March 26, Merrimack, NH-based PC Connection reported
Artful Dodgers
Back in elementary school, I was forced to attend a class on something called moral science. It wasn’t religious instruction, exactly, but it did give
staying in shape
The year was 1909. The United States of America consisted of 46 states, William Howard Taft was president, mailing a letter cost two cents, the Model
safety net
Don’t look down. Shipping freight these days can seem more like walking a tightrope than driving a highway or following an air route. In the second half
talking heads
ANDREW TRAVERS, Dir. of Operations, The Orvis Co., Manchester, VT From an operations perspective, the Web channel is treated as an enhancement to our