Logistics Glossary
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"Our mission is to provide today's business logistics managers with the information they need to speed cycle times, reduce inventories, and use logistics expertise to get closer to their markets and customers.

Through the use of inbound logistics techniques, readers discover and create wealth for their companies."

FELECIA STRATTON, Editor
Felecia Stratton has been the driving editorial force behind Inbound Logistics since its inception in 1981. Editor for the past 15 years, Stratton is the readers' advocate, guiding the solutions-based editorial approach -- directories, education and career guidance, case histories, the integration of online resources with print editorial. Always mindful of readers' needs, Stratton is the innovator of several popular reader affinity features -- The Logistics Planner, Web_Cite City, DiaLog, Resource Center, Top 100 lists, Reader Profile, and others -- many of which have since been adapted by other magazines in the logistics segment.

Today there is widespread acceptance of supply chain management. However, in the decade 1980-1990, Inbound Logistics was the only magazine covering SCM as its core concept. Stratton kept the editorial idea alive during those early years. She now has responsibility for complete editorial management of IL. She conducts focus groups and talks to readers regularly to match IL's editorial to their needs. To help build the magazine's knowledge base, Stratton attends industry trade shows and participates in panel discussions and regular reader research.  She has been central in building IL's web site, which is designed to bolster reader affinity, and has worked on many of the features you find here. She also help the magazine's successful launch of Inbound Logistics Mexico.

What's next? Stratton's editorial focus for the next decade will be using new IT tools, including web-based solutions, to help readers rationalize supply with demand and manage the logistics process. Once again, Stratton is positioning Inbound Logistics to continue to meet readers' needs into the next decade.
ROBERT MALONE, Executive Editor
Executive Editor Robert Malone brings his broad range of experience in the manufacturing, information technology, and supply chain management fields to Inbound Logistics readers. Every month, his Supply Chain Technology column offers insight into the experience of others facing LIT challenges. He also contributes quarterly in-depth features on LIT, and is a sought-after speaker at user groups, industry conferences, and other logistics events. Malone ammassed more than two decades of experience as editor of Omni, Industrial Design, Automation News, and Managing Automation magazines. You may also recognize him from his many TV appearances on Good Morning America, Sixty Minutes, CNN, and others, or from his contributions to the New York Times, New York Magazine and the Chicago Tribune.
AMY ROACH PARTRIDGE, Assistant Managing Editor

With a strong business journalism background, Assistant Managing Editor Amy Roach Partridge brings to Inbound Logistics a keen eye for innovative trends in logistics and supply chain management. Partridge's passion for magazines has her on a mission to enhance IL's overall editorial experience, identify issues/trends to keep readers on the cutting edge of logistics and supply chain management, serve as a conduit for readers, and keep the magazine evolving at a rapid pace. She works closely with readers, industry leaders, and communications professionals to find the best case studies, success stories, new technologies, industry hotspots, and services to highlight each month.

Her responsibilities include overseeing IL's guest editorial columns, writing the monthly Trends and Global Logistics sections as well as feature stories, and managing IL's internal editorial and production schedule. Partridge previously served as Managing Editor of a regional business publication in Arizona; is a contributing writer to Knowledge@WP Carey, an online magazine from Arizona State University's prestigious WP Carey School of Business; and is featured in the book Press Releases Are not a PR Strategy, discussing best ways for editors and public relations professionals to work together to serve readers.