“WHO ARE THE PROFESSIONAL LOGISTICIANS?” – St. Louis Logistician, V29N7 October 1995 “What makes a logistician a professional? Do you have to be a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) to be considered a logistics professional? For that matter, how many of us consider ourselves to be “logisticians”, professional or not? Everyone is a logistician, but some of us make a study of it.  Many folks only equate SOLE members or CPLs as being professional logisticians. Not true! All of us who make a living performing…

Your local grocery store is a wealth of logistics activities.  Have you ever looked at the banana you are eating for lunch and wondered where it’s been? Do you care? The process of getting that banana from producer to consumer is an interesting exercise in logistics and transportation.  The average banana travels about 4,000 miles before being pulled out of your blue & white metal “Logistics Superhero” lunchbox (with ubiquitous matching Thermos bottle). Bananas already come in a protective “container”, but bananas are delicate…

The logistics of mushing is older than the Russian-Alaskan frozen bridge; about 2000 BC or more.