Truth in the Checkout Line

George Jenkins
Source: www.publix.com


IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner writes, "Of all the books, magazines, newspapers and other reading material that came across my desk in 2007, perhaps the most meaningful was discovered in the most unlikely location: the supermarket checkout line."

Read Ron's column.

Kent Gregory
Source: www.mdgbts.com

The new year has brought with it a slug of new Active members from companies such as Northrop Grumman, Seagate Technology, BD and Frito-Lay. New Associate members include Sheldon Good and Company, MDG Development and Transystems; look inside to see who is representing these companies in IAMC. And several Associate member firms have changed their designated representatives. To get the latest member news, click here.




Who is sponsoring the IAMC Spring 2008 Professional Forum in Phoenix? Look inside for the updated list.

Look for the Phoenix Professional Forum Program Update brochure in your mail the week of February 18.


February's Research & Resources covers four topic areas: the economy (one article), corporate real estate management (two articles), supply chain (five articles) and employee relocation issues (two articles).

To view this Gantt chart for building a distribution center, click here.

Look inside for this and even more content.

Wind-generated megawatts for each U.S. state as of January 2008. Source:www.awea.org/projects/


This month, read about GE's wind-farm investments, FedEx's new Indiana freight facility, Honeywell's new nuclear weapons manufacturing plant (and who's complaining about it), Air Products' nitrogen gas facility in Mexico, Dell's laptop manufacturing plant in Lodz, Intel's Montpellier, France, joint venture in high-performance computing, and much more. Look inside for more projects, plus who the IAMC members are from the big companies involved.