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Logistics gives back
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
(CSCMP) will hold its 2015 annual conference from Sept. 27 to
30 at the San Diego Convention Center.
The educational conference bills itself as a chance to learn
from industry experts, hear dynamic speakers, and network with
influential leaders. And one look at the list of speakers proves
that point: This year’s featured speakers include Howard Schultz,
Starbucks’ chairman, president, and CEO; and Dave Clark,
Amazon.com’s senior vice president of worldwide operations and
customer service.
After hearing from those logistics luminaries, attendees can
attend educational sessions designed to broaden their knowledge
of supply chain management. Participants can choose sessions
from the following five categories:
; Economic forecasts, benchmarks, and surveys
; Leadership, talent, and career
; Manufacturing, planning, and sourcing
; Supply chain solutions and practice
; Transportation, distribution, and warehousing.
To register, go to https://cscmp.org/annual-conference/
2015-registration.
When’s the last time you had an entertaining and informative
crash course on how to manage your supply chain more efficiently and profitably? Dummies across the industry gained that
opportunity recently when JDA Software Group Inc. announced
the publication of Supply Chain for Dummies, a nine-chapter
guide to the discipline by JDA experts Razat Gaurav, Prashant
Bhatia, and Madhav Durbha.
Written in the tradition of the classic “For Dummies” series of
reference books from publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc., Supply
Chain for Dummies drills down to the best practices to plan,
source, make, and deliver products in a competitive global economy. Its chapters include:
; A look at supply chains today
; Examining supply chain challenges
; Delighting the omnichannel consumer
; The value of supply chain technology
; The key to achieving supply chain excellence in manufacturing
; Focusing on profitable fulfillment
; The key to achieving success in retail
; The benefits of collaboration
; Nine common myths about supply chain technology.
To obtain a copy, visit www.jda.com/dummies.
Smart people write supply chain
“Dummies” book
Starbucks and Amazon execs headline
CSCMP conference
Here’s our monthly roundup of some of the
charitable works and donations by companies
in the material handling and logistics space.
; The logistics
software company QuestaWeb
raised more than
$25,000 in donations to help find
a cure for pancreatic cancer. The
company raised the money for the City of Hope
charity following a digital fundraising campaign
led by company COO Felix Pekar, whose wife
was recently diagnosed with the disease.
; Ceva Logistics is donating space on its
trucks to deliver cash donations to the 5cent
campaign, an Australian charity that aids
impoverished families by collecting five-cent
coins from donors. The program, which is
organized by Y Generation Against Poverty
(Y Gap), collected more than $305,000 in its
first three years, in the form of nearly 8 million
Australian nickels.
; The agency-based freight forwarder Icat
Logistics Inc. has donated its transportation
services to help a Haitian orphanage recover from the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country. Working with the nonprofit
group Rendez-vous: Haiti, the logistics company helped deliver a donated 2005 Chevrolet
Silverado truck to Port-au-Prince to provide
transportation for the facility’s 96 elementary
school-aged children.
; Global Shop Solutions, an enterprise
resource planning (ERP) software developer,
donated its design
expertise to help
provide bicycles for
a group of abused
children aged five
to 18. The company’s consultants
wrapped up their
annual training
week by forming
teams to assemble and donate a number of
BMX and mountain bicycles to the nonprofit
group Children’s Safe Harbor.
