Appointments/promotions: Len Ebersberger, president, Refrigerated Warehouse Consultants, Inc., joins Radcliffe Systems, Inc.'s board of directors...West Bend Equipment, a div. of Bushman Equipment, Inc., appoints Gary Thomas sales engineer...ID TECH appoints William G. Rorick, Ph.D. as group vice president, sales, marketing and engineering...The Council of Logistics Management names Joel Sutherland, senior vice president, Transplace, president; Thomas W. Speh , James E. Rees Distinguished Professor of Distribution at Miami University of Ohio, first vice president; Elijah Ray, senior vice president customer solutions, Standard Corp. Integrated Logistics, second vice president; and Mark E. Richards, vice president, Associated Warehouses, Inc., secretary and treasurer...The Multitech Group promotes Scott A. Nilssen to executive vice president in charge of all technical services, and James J. McLafferty to executive vice president in charge of training and documentation... Henningsen Cold Storage appoints Mark Myers to general manager, Portland Ore.; Tony Weaver, superintendent, Portland, Ore.; Bill Friend, superintendent, Richland, Wash.; and Peter Lepschat, chief engineer, Forest Grove, Ore.

Alliances/construction: Hoover Materials Handling Group Inc. re-engineers its structure to create four business units: Industrial Packaging, Asset Tanks, Distribution Services, and Endural...Paxar Corp. launches Servisourcel, a new independent service arm supporting the entire bar code printer industry...Manhattan Associates, Inc. forms a new third-party logistics business unit...Provia Software and DigiTerra, Inc ., a wholly owned subsidiary of CIBER, Inc., sign a formal vendor alliance agreement and will offer a joint methodology using Provia's Tier 1 application suites of supply chain execution and collaboration products...Arbon Equipment Corp ., a subsidiary of Rite-Hite Corp., purchases Todd Equipment Corp ...Hoist Liftruck Mfg. Inc. acquires Autolift Heavy Duty Lift Truck Div. and Schrek Material Handling Equipment.