Appointments/promotions: Ken Finkel is appointed strategic accounts group leader at RedPrairie... David Janke is named vice president of sales and marketing at SK Daifuku... Toyota Material Handling USA Inc. appoints Brett Wood national product planning and marketing services manager... Tom Egan joins Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) as director of marketing... APICS, The Educational Society for Resource Management elects the 2003 board of directors: Bob Collins of SSI Worldwide is president, Arnold Kennedy of Visionary Oasis is president-elect, Wendy Kremers of Steelcase Inc. is executive president, Thomas Krupka of Forward Technologies is secretary and treasurer, and Drew Rosen of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, N.C. is past president... G. Lynnwood Rosser is appointed director of sales and marketing for FKI Logistex White Systems... Carter & Burgess announces additions to its leadership committee: Phillip Pryor is elected principal and Edward Green, Dennis Lang, Roger Manny, and Mathew Thomas are elected associates... Jerry Vaughn joins Intelligrated as systems sales manager... Joseph Kozak is hired as executive vice president of global sales and marketing at V3 Systems... Bob Stoffel is named president of UPS supply chain solutions... Riverside Logistics hires Greg Swanson as vice president of business development and promotes Rick Holden to vice president of operations.

Alliances/new facilities: USCO Logistics establishes new customer solution organization to design, build and manage customer-focused solutions for current and future customers... ID Technology Corp. opens a New England regional office in Mansfield, Massachusetts... Bluff Manufacturing Inc. acquires the portable dock division of Torbeck Industries... Synquest Inc. changes its name to Viewlocity Inc.... Tuscarora Inc. relocates its Michigan-based foam molding and integrated materials operation facility from Chesaning to Owosso and acquires Specor Systems Inc.