Management of the physical-distribution function; guides for reducing industry's third-largest cost.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Management Association. Manufacturing Division
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [publisher not identified] ; [1960]
New York, [1960]
Series:AMA management report ; no. 49.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Principles and practical guides
  • Physical-distribution management: Functions and practices / Ross E. Jones
  • Organizing for effective physical-distribution management / Philip F. Cannon
  • The distribution manager and his place in the organization / George V. Evans
  • Identifying and controlling the costs of physical distribution / Paul A. Wassmansdorf
  • How to cut warehousing costs / E. M. Maney
  • Part two. The transportation element
  • The common carriers' part in product distribution: A symposium
  • I. The rail carriers / Owen Clarke
  • II. The air carriers / Samuel C. Dunlap
  • III. The barge carriers / A. C. Ingersoll, Jr.
  • IV. The motor carriers / Paul F. Yount
  • V. Discussion
  • Containerization: A symposium
  • I. Progress and problems in implementing the containerization concept / Morris Forgash
  • II. Containerization and coordinated transportation / John L. Weller
  • III. Containerization in the airlines industry / F. J. Stevens
  • IV. A transportation analyst looks at the containerization revival / Fred Muller, Jr.
  • V. Containerization from the traffic manager's viewpoint / L. E. Galaxpie
  • VI. One shipper's containerization problems, solutions, and needs / R. W. Puder
  • VII. Some questions and answers
  • Toward a sound framework for national transportation policy / Bradley D. Nash
  • Part three. Six company studies
  • Physical-distribution management in Burroughs Corporation / Thomas W. Kimmerly
  • Physical-distribution management in Westinghouse Electric Corporation / W. W. Morris
  • Physical-distribution management in Pillsbury's grocery products division / W. H. Gribble
  • Physical-distribution management in Federal Pacific Electric Company / Jerome P. Shuchter
  • Physical-distribution management in Whirlpool corporation / Earl H. Klukas
  • Physical-distribution management in Raytheon Company / John T. Thompson
  • Postscript. Looking forward
  • What will distribution look like in 1965? / A. W. Greene