Friday, November 4, 2011

LQ’s 2012 3PL Sustainability Study and Awards Program

Supply Chain Technology and Best Practices in Sustainability (www.LQ3PLstudy.com)

This year Rick Blasgen, CEO of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, identified the transmission of information between supply chain partners as the second most important challenge that CSCMP’s members face, with global competition as the number one issue.

He noted firms must collaborate to mitigate risk and increase transparency, demonstrating trust between supply chain partners on topics that may have been viewed as proprietary in the past.

Firms such as Procter & Gamble, for example, have reported that they’ve reduced forecast errors by more than 30 percent, decreased safety stock by more than 10 percent and increased cash flow by more than $100 million by applying technology for end-to-end forecasting in their supply chain practices.

Given the growing importance of technology in today’s supply chain, the 2012 LQ 3PL Sustainability Study and Awards Program seeks to better understand how firms are employing information technology in support of sustainability in their organization and supply chains.

LQ’s editors have introduced technology as the focus theme underlying LQ’s 3PL Sustainability Study and Awards Program for 2012 by adding questions focusing on technology to the basic LQ 2011 Study questions.

You’re invited to participate in LQ’s 2012 3PL Sustainability Study and Awards Program. To participate and register, join us at: http://www.LQ3PLstudy.com

LQ Advisory Board Announcement


LQ is pleased to announce Virginia Garbutt has accepted LQ’s invitation to join its Advisory Board

Virginia Garbutt has been working with Walmart Canada for over 11 years. As Director of Strategic Network Planning and Continuous Improvement, she is responsible for logistics network strategy, DC design, DC construction engineering and sustainability. Garbutt has led the design, build and implementation of Walmart Canada’s nine distribution centers, totalling 5.9 million square feet. She leads the team that designed and pioneered Walmart’s first sustainable distribution center in Balzac, Alta. The perishable distribution center features over 30 environmentally-friendly design features, including wind and solar technologies, smart refrigeration, LED lighting and hydrogen fuel cell technology. This facility is targeted to be 60 percent more energy-efficient than traditional centers.

Walmart Canada

Established in 1994 and headquartered in Mississauga, Ont., Walmart Canada operates 329 stores and serves more than one million customers each day. Walmart is one of Canada’s largest employers with 85,000 associates, and is recognized by Waterstone Human Capital as having one of Canada’s top 10 corporate cultures. Since 1994, Walmart raised and donated over $125 million to Canadian charities and not-for-profit organizations.

LQ’s Advisory Board

As a resource for logisticians, academics and executives in other disciplines in the United States and Canada, LQ offers ideas for leadership in logistics, supply chain management and transportation, and provides a unique bridge between business, academia and practitioners. LQ’s advisory board and contributors afford authoritative thinking on the complex and fast-changing work of the logistics and supply chain management business — with a unique focus on best practices in the United States and Canada. LQ’s board plays a pivotal role in providing direction for LQ Magazine and LQ’s bi-annual symposiums.


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

LQ Advisory Board Announcement




LQ is pleased to announce James Stock Ph.D. has accepted LQ’s invitation to join its Advisory Board

Dr. Stock is the Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing at the University of South Florida.  He holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Miami (Florida) and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.  He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, University of Oklahoma, Air Force Institute of Technology and Michigan State University.  He has been an invited speaker on numerous programs in more than 45 countries.  He is the author or co-author of over 150 publications including books, monographs, articles and proceedings papers.  He has previously served as Editor of the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and Logistics Spectrum.  Dr. Stock has co-authored several textbook editions, including Strategic Logistics Management, 4th ed., Fundamentals of Logistics Management, 1st ed., Development and Implementation of Reverse Logistics Programs, Reverse Logistics, and Product Returns/Reverse Logistics in Warehousing:  Strategies, Policies and Programs.  He is currently developing two co-authored textbooks, one in supply chain management and the other in logistics management.

Dr. Stock was the recipient of the CSCMP Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and has also received the Armitage Medal and the Eccles Medal from SOLE—The International Society of Logistics.  His areas of research interest include reverse logistics/product returns, the marketing/logistics interface, and supply chain management.


LQ’s Advisory Board

As a resource for logisticians, academics and executives in other disciplines in the United States and Canada, LQ offers ideas for leadership in logistics, supply chain management and transportation, and provides a unique bridge between business, academia and practitioners. LQ’s advisory board and contributors afford authoritative thinking on the complex and fast-changing work of the logistics and supply chain management business — with a unique focus on best practices in the United States and Canada. LQ's board plays a pivotal role in providing direction for LQ Magazine and LQ’s bi-annual symposiums.