Did you know there is a Logistics Hall of Fame? Neither did SCDigest, until just a short time ago. That’s probably because the organization behind it is in Europe and most of the members that have been voted in since it started in 2003 are European, but there are a few Americans in the virtual hall.
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That includes one of the two “pallet pallets” who were inducted earlier this year, both deceased: George Raymond, who founded the fork truck company still bears his name, and someone named Oliver Richter, who was among those most responsible for the introduction of the reusable and pooled CHEP pallet.
Those two join over 30 other members.
George Raymond (1890-1967) and his associate William House were granted a patent for a hydraulic lift truck and the accompanying wooden pallet in New York State. He went on to start fork truck maker The Raymond Co. and was CEO for many years.
The other inductee is Oliver Richter (1920-2014). He took the development of Euro pallet (EPAL), developed in 1991 and which then led to the idea of a pallet pool taking hold, as a manager at CHEP. He later set up the world's first closed pallet pooling system in Australia.
Who else is in the hall of fame, which follows a very formal process that includes more than 60 experts as part of a “jury” that votes on the nominated candidates?
Well, how about the still living Erich Staake, inducted in 2019 and whom the hall says “can claim to have led inland port logistics into a new era. On the basis of the logport concept, he reinvented the Port of Duisburg as a multimodal logistics center and turned it into the largest inland port in Europe and an international benchmark. He not only made a significant contribution to advancing the network concept and the integrated logistics approach, but also impressively demonstrated how logistics strengthen the economic power and quality of life of an entire region.”
We also have William H. Tunner, (1906-1983) was who the hall says was a US Major General posthumously inducted in 2006. He was honored in recognition of his outstanding organizational achievements in supplying resources to the population of Berlin during the Berlin blockade in 1948 (the Berlin Airlift), for founding modern air transport operations, and for being the first person to establish the airplane as a practical means of transport within the logistics chain.”
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Sounds like a good choice.
Other names will be more familiar. Those include Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, inducted in 2017 for being a “revolutionizer of ecommerce and logistics.”
FedEx founder Fred Smith is in the hall too, inducted in 2016 for the starting the world’s first overnight express delivery company. The hall says Smith is also considered to be the man who came up with the idea of air freight hubs.
Apparently, there was another inventor of the fork truck, member Eugene Clark (1873-1942), who was inducted in 2007.
In 1917, he invented something called the "Tructractor,” the forerunner of the modern forklift truck, after founding the Clark Equipment Company the year before.
The full list of Logistics Hall of Fame members can be found here: Logistics Hall of Fame Members
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