Appointments/promotions: The Council of Logistics Management selects Maria A. McIntyre as its new executive vice president...Stellar Industries, Inc. appoints Gary Hanson as the materials handling cranes product manager...Lockheed Martin Systems Integration appoints Judy F. Marks president of the distribution technologies business unit...WarehouseHog.com names Greg Plecas vice president and general manager...PSC Inc., appoints Paul Brown vice president of finance and chief financial officer...SupplyWorks, Inc. appoints Joe Bovi vice president of sales...The Warehousing Education and Research Council names Annette Hartman, vice president, logistics, The Swatch Group (U.S.) Inc., president of its board of directors...WERC also names James L. Allen, president, Midwest Distribution Systems, vice president and William T. Gates, president and chief operating officer, Standard Corp., secretary/treasurer...J. Dennis Stevens retires as president of SATO America, Inc. and Mike Fowler will assume the role...GNB Industrial Power names Michael D. Matson to product manager for its line of motive power, flooded, lift truck batteries and chargers...GNB also names Taylor Frederickson manager of its Dallas, Texas branch office.

Acquisitions/partnerships:Vertex Interactive, Inc. and American Management Systems form a partnership through which AMS will resell Vertex's integrated suite of supply chain execution software...Vertex also announces a strategic ISV alliance with IBM...Viewlocity, Inc. partners with eSYNC International to cooperatively provide implementation and integration services of Viewlocity's supply chain collaboration product to third party logistics providers...Colson Casters acquires the former Shepherd Products plastics molding plant now called Colson Tennessee...IFS and PipeChain formed a worldwide partnership to integrate PipeChain's supply chain execution software with IFS' component-based business applications...Creform Logis-Tech Corp. moves to a new North American headquarters facility located in Wixom, Mich...FP International purchases the assets of FastTrack Packaging System from FT Acquisition, L.P.