Thursday, August 29, 2013

Announcement: David Guernsey Joins LQ's Board


LQ is pleased to announce that David Guernsey has accepted LQ’s invitation to join its Advisory Board


David Guernsey, Principal, GlobalEdge Solutions, is the former Senior Sustainability Program Manager and the acknowledged “father of sustainability” at UPS. In 1992, David became the International Environmental Manager where he developed UPS’s global environmental compliance programs. During this time, David led the effort, from tactical details to top-level strategic platforms, to create an industry first Sustainability and Reporting program in 2003. David went on to guide UPS through nine sustainability reports before he retired in April 2012.

David was deeply entrenched in every aspect of UPS’s Sustainability program. His responsibilities included corporate sustainability management, climate & energy strategy and all “beyond compliance” activities; to include; external technical working groups, projects with Non-Governmental Organizations, support for environmental public relations, and corporate response and strategy related to global environmental issues. As Managing Principal of Experiential Sustainability Consulting, David helps companies build, manage and enhance their sustainability programs from tactical to strategic. Dave received his Masters in environmental biology from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

About Consultancy Practices

David now works in multiple consultancy practices to leverage his experience and help other companies play a visible role in developing and managing the complex framework necessary to do business in our changing world.

* Managing Principal – Experiential Sustainability Consulting
* Principal – GlobalEdge Solutions
* Executive in Residence – Homrich Partners LLC

LQ's 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.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Announcement: Learning Opportunities From CITT:


Harvard Business Review Blog reports 75% companies are “blind-sided” by unexpected disruptions to their globalized supply chain logistics operations, 1 yet CITT calls these disruptions “predictable”, the risks “manageable” and corporate suffering “avoidable”

TORONTO, ON August 28, 2013 - “Having depth and breadth of specialized logistics knowledge is the key to predicting and manoeuvring the Great Disruptions that strike our global and domestic supply chain logistics ecosystems,” says CITT’s President Catherine Viglas, who wants to alert the business community that CITT’s fall semester of specialized, online logistics courses are open for registration only until September 2nd at midnight and observes that there’s never been more urgency for businesses to invest in professional development in logistics than there is right now.

The Unexpected Can Be Expected

“The lack of predictability is actually predictable,” says CITT’s Viglas. “Modern, global logistics is more complicated than many executives appreciate. Major disruptions happen all the time. Able logistics pros handle them. And they make it look easy. They quietly solve these kinds of big problems with their teams all the time. They’re unsung corporate heroes.”

“The key to manoeuvring the Great Disruptions reported by the companies in this research—the kinds of political upheaval, extreme weather phenomena and natural disasters that tend to happen more commonly in the far-flung regions from which many companies now source their products, components or raw materials—is in the planning, preparation and practice. And these are based on a deep understanding of the inter-connectivity of the systems and processes and range of alternatives in logistics and how they work and interrelate in the real world and as part of a complex and dynamic ecosystem,” adds Viglas.

She points out that with preparation, deep expertise and corporate support, the significant corporate suffering inflicted to the companies in this study could have been largely avoided. This underscores the importance of a comprehensive, specialized logistics education to help people develop their knowledge and abilities and enhance their on-the-job learning.

Viglas also highlights the value of the practice-oriented, case-based learning and interactive group-work that CITT’s courses and annual professional development conference use to help professionals role-play risk scenarios.

CITT integrates a wide range of scenarios to hone the skills of its professional students. CITT’s designation holders have worked through many cases by the time they’re fully certified since CITT views ‘The Case’ to be one of the best ways to sharpen real-world skills without exposing companies to the actual risks of real-world learning curves.

Respected as a leading industry authority, CITT was asked to write and adjudicate the Strategy Case used in the 2013 MBA Games, where top teams from every Canadian business school vied to bring the smartest answers to the table.

“Business schools really understand the idea that we can’t start to get proficient at contingency and risk management unless we have practice. Many companies and professionals come to CITT with that in mind as well,” says Viglas.

CITT’s Education & Certification Mission Has Never Been More Relevant Than It Is Today

“The good news is…[half of the companies in the study reported by the HBR blog said] that their firms are now adding rigor to the process of assessing supply chain resiliency,” wrote study and blog author and APQC Senior Research Fellow, Mary Driscoll.

“We’ve never had such a tough and complex business climate and had to be this good professionally. Considering the stiff competition, a crazy cyclical economy, major supply chain disruptions and our sector’s looming exodus of experienced professionals, the founding post-WW2 mission of CITT to build strong logistics expertise rapidly hasn’t been this relevant in over 50 years,” observed CITT President, Catherine Viglas.

People who work in any aspect of business that touches on supply chain logistics—shippers, carriers and 3PLs and all the ancillary logistics services—can look to CITT to help them develop the ability to master more logistics preparedness, manoeuvrability and resiliency.

CITT announces the Last Call for its fall semester of specialized logistics courses offered online across Canada to all proactive professionals who want to develop, demonstrate and deepen their mastery of the business of logistics. And reminds executives that investing in professional development of this nature can help minimize surprises and reduce corporate suffering caused by inevitable Big Disruptions to companies’ complex supply chains and logistics operations.

Learning opportunities from CITT:

UPCOMING COURSES: fall logistics courses start September 3rd
Registration options:
* Online at www.citt.ca/register (available 24/7 ‘til midnight September 2nd)
* By phone: 416.363.5696. Phone lines will be opened until Friday, August 30th at 5:00 pm EST. Registrations received by fax, email and telephone over the long weekend will be processed first thing on the morning of September 3rd

UPCOMING Professional Development Conference (Nov 3-5, 2013):
Why a fully integrated, cross-functional risk management strategy is a new imperative for companies is one of the pivotal topics of this year’s CITT’s National Conference on Supply Chain & Logistics which is being held in Toronto November 3-5 and welcomes any supply chain or logistics professional or interested management professional. Please call CITT at 416.363.5696 or visit www.citt.ca

Background on CITT
CITT is a non-profit organization created by industry to rapidly build post WW2 logistics expertise in 1958. Today CITT is industry’s most experienced and valued source of supply chain logistics courses, certification and expertise. With accessible, flexible, and affordable online learning, industry experienced course facilitators and supportive program staff, CITT has helped thousands of successful working professionals develop, demonstrate and deepen their mastery of the business of logistics and attain industry’s most valued logistics designation from CITT.

CITT’s Specialized Logistics Courses & Professional Designation (Certification)
Created for industry, by industry, CITT compresses decades of real-world experience and innumerate hours of logistics experience into professional courses that are developed, updated and facilitated by successful, proven logistics practitioners.

CITT offers industry’s most comprehensive and practical coverage of logistics topics that supply chain logistics professionals need to survive and thrive, including: courses, webinars and a premier conferences. All address the Canadian and global perspectives of supply chain logistics.

CITT’s deep-level specialized logistics courses are aimed at helping organizations build more invulnerable, sustainable and profitable supply chain logistics operations. Relevant for anyone who buys, sells or manages the flow of goods and product (or is impacted by transportation logistics), they are:

Transportation Systems
Logistics Processes
Logistics Decision Modelling
Integrated Logistics
Transportation Law
Transportation Economics

Complete FREE GUIDE

CITT’s courses lead to more sustainable, invulnerable supply chain and logistics operations.

CITT-certified professionals
Thousands of professionals have looked to CITT for professional certification and many maintain their professional designation voluntarily year-after-year. Before they can be certified, CITT’s designation holders have proven business and logistics knowledge, have amassed nearly 10,000 hours of industry experience, agree to uphold a code of conduct and make a commitment to regular professional development to ensure their abilities are up-to-date.

Monday, August 26, 2013

LQ's September 26th Symposium Facilitator Announcement









LQ is pleased to announce that David Guernsey, the former Senior Sustainability Program Manager and the acknowledged “father of sustainability” at UPS, will be helping to guide our discussions at LQ’s September 26th Symposium at the Toronto Board of Trade's Country Club during the program's roundtable Executive Exchange.

LQ’s September 26th Symposium will focus on the theme of Developing New Strategies to Create Supply Chain Engagement from two perspectives: Leveraging Sustainability to Create More Meaningful Customer Relationships as well as Engagement, and New Ways to Create Powerful Internal Collaboration - reaching your firm’s executive management team with a clear supply chain strategy to deliver results to all stakeholders and enhance profitability.
 
A few of the Supply Chain Engagement Topics LQ’s Symposium will cover include:
 
• Making chain sustainability a priority for senior level executives and middle management across your firm – through to procurement practices
 
• Working with your suppliers to build cost effective programs to spread your standards up and down your supply chain
 
• Communicating and reporting on your supply chain sustainability efforts: leverage your sustainability efforts and reports, and engaging consumers to better inform them on your work in this area

In addition to featuring luncheon speaker Dr. Yossi Sheffi, MIT, LQ’s Symposium will provide its delegates with a unique workshop learning environment – to learn from some of the finest supply chain educators and leading executives in North America – logisticians and 3PLs alike.
 
LQ’s workshop-format Executive Exchange at its Symposium will be coupled with outstanding presentations from executives representing the finalists and honorable mentions from LQ’s 3PL Sustainability Study and Awards Program 2013, which has been sponsored for a third consecutive year by C.H. Robinson.
 
You can register at www.LQsummit.com to benefit from LQ's Early Bird Symposium Registration Rate of $700 up until the end of August.

Early Bird registrations will also receive complimentary edition of Dr. Sheffi’s new book, Logistics Clusters. If you would like to download a one-page overview of LQ’s impressive roster of Speakers, or share it will colleagues who may like to attend, please visit: http://lqtoday.com/uploads/pdf/LQSpeakers.pdf

In addition, this year's 3PL and Logisticians’ Sustainability Symposium on September 26th will be followed by LQ's First Women in Supply Chain (WSCM) Breakfast Networ\k event on the next morning, September 27th. Delegates registered for September 26th are also invited to attend LQ’s WSCM Breakfast on September 27th as part of their registration package.
 
LQ’s WSCM Breakfast will feature thought leaders from Canada and the U.S. who will share their insights on mentoring, career sponsorship, and other professional development practices for women in supply chain management at the Toronto Board of Trade’s Country Club. LQ’s WSCM Breakfast facilitators and presenters include:







• Adriene Bailey, Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Yusen-Logistics (Americas) Inc.
• Robyn Brunscher, Vice President, Business Development, UPS
• Patricia Moser, President, i3advantage inc.
• Loray Mosher, PhD, Assistant Director at the Supply Chain Management Research Center (SCMRC), in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
• Ellen Voie, President and CEO, Women In Trucking

Register today for LQ's Early Bird Breakfast Executive Exchange (September 27th exclusively) at www.WomenInSCM.com for $99. This discounted early bird registration price gives you a total of $30 off of the regular Breakfast Executive Exchange price of $130 until August 30th).

LQ’s events are a great way to learn from leading logisticians, 3PLs and academics about developing new career advancement opportunities and proven innovative business practices with well researched presentations, at a well put-together industry conference that’s attended by senior executives.

LQ's Sponsors, which have made this exciting day possible, include: (Gold Sponsors) C.H. Robinson, GENCO, Genpro Incorporated and Ryder. 

If you have any questions regarding LQ’s Symposium on September 26th, or the WSCM Breakfast on September 27th, please contact LQ's Editor & Publisher Fred Moody: moody@LogisticsQuarterly.com


Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Announcement: Nikhil Sathe Joins LQ's Board


LQ is pleased to announce that Nikhil Sathe has accepted LQ’s invitation to join its Advisory Board

Nikhil Sathe, Strategic Advisor to Genpro, a fast emerging and non-asset 3PL and Senior Advisor, G2 Capital Advisors, is known for his 3PL industry expertise, brings over 26 years of international and C-level experience in the transportation and logistics industry. Nikhil has been CFO of Kelron Logistics (currently known as XPO Logistics Canada) for over 11 years. Prior to Kelron Nikhil has had long tenure in Sub Saharan Africa with diverse Multinational Companies. Nikhil brings expertise and proven track record of business turnarounds, M & A and strong P & L Management.  Nikhil is known for his knowledge capital in the 3PL industry and is a regular speaker at recognized industry associations such as Eye for Transport (EFT), Transportation Logistics Council (TLC), Logistics Quarterly (LQ) and Supply Chain and Logistics Canada (SCL) on State of the Industry, Risk Management and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Nikhil is a member of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), Association for Corporate Growth-Toronto Chapter (ACG); American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) and Finance Executives International (FEI), Canada. In March 2013 Nikhil assumed the role of Strategic and Management Consultant of Genpro Inc., a New Jersey based 3PL to improve their strategic, operational and economic performance.

About G2 and Genpro:

Genpro, Incorporated was founded in 1989 by Owner/President, Robert A. Goldstein.  Mr. Goldstein comes from several generations of experience in the transportation industry. Genpro is highly scalable 3PL platform with strong fundamentals for aggressive growth. Genpro has a niche customer base in perishable and dry freight and has successfully embarked on Transportation Management service offering with high value add component for outbound and inbound transportation programs.


G2 Capital Advisors is a unique investment advisory firm with wide range of service offerings that include turnarounds, restructuring, buy and sell side mandates, capital requirements including private/growth equity/debt and corporate development initiatives. G2 Capital has a special advisory for Transportation and Logistics with highly experienced team of senior executives with deep domain knowledge of financial products and industry acumen.


LQ's 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.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Announcement: Patricia Moser Joins LQ's Board


LQ is pleased to announce that Patricia Moser has accepted LQ’s invitation to join its Advisory Board

Patricia J. Moser, President i3 advantage, is recognized as one of the premier procurement and supply chain thought leaders and strategists in North America. She is known for quickly and accurately assessing a client situation and providing actionable and impactful strategies for implementation.

Patricia's insight is borne from her over 20 years senior level experience as a consultant and in corporate executive roles. She has a 360-degree understanding of the interrelationships required to realize successful outcomes. Her enviable track record of achievements in both her corporate executive roles and as a consultant, are in a diverse number of industries, including: banking, telecommunications, technology, retail, public sector, not-for-profit, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and healthcare.

Her most recent corporate incarnations were as Vice President Supply Chain, Grand & Toy, Chief Procurement Officer, Rogers Communications and Vice President, Procurement Business Services, EDS (Canada, Global Automotive, US Federal Government).

Patricia has been widely profiled, quoted and/or written for numerous publications including Fortune, HR Executive, MBE, CPO Agenda, Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine, Purchasing B2B and MM&D. She has presented across North America on leading edge approaches to business issues and participated in multiple executive roundtable events.

She is also an award-winning author having co-written the book 1 Piece of Advice: Exceptional women from around the globe inspire you to unlock your potential. (www.1pieceofadvice.com)

She holds an MBA from Concordia University, a BSc in Chemistry and a BSc in Psychology from McMaster University.

About i3 Advantage inc: (www.i3advantage.com)

i3 advantage offers high value consulting focused on creating high performance in corporations through effective transformation. i3 has worked with leading companies in a variety of industries, as well as the public sector, in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing. This has included: reviewing current full-scope supply chain practices and recommending strategies to increase efficiencies, lower costs and positively enhance the client experience; developing thought leadership in category management, sourcing and supply chain including e-sourcing and supplier diversity. i3 has also assisted organizations in developing marketing strategies linked to aspects of the supply chain, including the arena of sustainability.

LQ's 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.

Monday, August 12, 2013

LQ's Women In Supply Chain Management Breakfast


LQ WSCM Logo
LQ Magazine is building on our tradition of focusing on the strengths that women in supply chain management bring to businesses and extending the dialogue of its Sixth Annual Women in Supply Chain Management (WSCM) edition with our first WSCM Breakfast this September.

LQ’s Women in Supply Chain Management Breakfast, which will be held at the Toronto Board of Trade's Country Club on September 27th, offers a unique networking opportunity for women to develop professionally with thought leaders from Canada and the U.S. sharing their insights on mentoring, career sponsorship, and other professional development practices for women.

It also provides an important vehicle to recognize and support the efforts of Canadian and American companies that appreciate the high value of promoting diversity in the supply chain. To register for this breakfast, please click here, or click on the following link to download additional information on this event.

LQ’s WSCM Breakfast will feature thought leaders from Canada and the U.S. who will share their insights on mentoring, career sponsorship, and other professional development practices for women in supply chain management at the Toronto Board of Trade’s Country Club. LQ’s WSCM Breakfast facilitators and presenters include:







Adriene Bailey, Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Yusen-Logistics (Americas) Inc.
Patricia Moser, President, i3advantage inc.
Robyn Brunscher, Vice President, Business Development, UPS
Loray Mosher, PhD, Assistant Director at the Supply Chain Management Research Center (SCMRC), in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
Ellen Voie, President and CEO, Women In Trucking

Register today for LQ's Early Bird Breakfast Executive Exchange for $99. (This discounted early bird registration price gives you a total of $30 off of the regular Breakfast Executive Exchange price of $130 until August 30th). (Seating is limited to 120 delegates.)

If you are planning to attend LQ's traditional one-day Symposium on September 26th - LQ’s WSCM Breakfast on September 27th is included as part of your registration package.

To register for LQ’s 3PL and Logisticians Sustainability Symposium on September 26th, please visit www.LQsummit.com to benefit from LQ's Early Bird Symposium Registration Rate of $700. (This discounted early bird price gives you a total of $195 off of the regular registration price of $895 until August 30th.) Seating is limited to 120 delegates.

LQ’s events are a great way to learn from leading logisticians, 3PLs and academics about developing new career advancement opportunities and proven innovative business practices with well researched presentations, at a well put-together industry conference that’s attended by senior executives.

If you would like to download a one-page overview of LQ’s impressive roster of Speakers, or share it will colleagues who may like to attend, please click here.

For more information, please contact LQ's Editor and Publisher, Fred Moody at fmoody@logisticsquarterly.com

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