PDM—Techniques in action Available to Purchase

PDM, the brainchild of the booming sixties has grown into a vital cost‐saving factor in the sober seventies. A recent national conference held by the Centre for Physical Distribution Management examined many aspects of the role RDM plays in the economy today. We publish here two of the papers read at that conference. The first by J.M. Williams of NMHC looks at the concept of materials management drawing considerably from the US experience and urges less theory and more practical implementation of modern distribution techniques. The second paper by B.W. Ancsell of Rank Radio International lucidly describes just what can go wrong when those techniques are implemented without sufficient forethought.