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20 DC VELOCITY JULY 2017
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Long-time supply chain thought
leader Art van Bodegraven dies
at 78
Long-time supply chain consultant and DC VELOCITY
contributor Art van Bodegraven Jr. died June 18 after a
long battle with pancreatic cancer.
He spent most of his 55-year career in consulting,
developing an affinity for supply chain management.
Most recently, van Bodegraven was managing principal of the van Bodegraven Associates consultancy and
founding principal of Discovery Executive Services,
which develops and delivers supply chain educational
programs. He was formerly chair of the Supply Chain
Group AG, partner at The Progress Group LLC, development executive at the Council of Supply Chain
Management Professionals (CSCMP), practice leader
with S4 Consulting, and a managing director in Coopers
& Lybrand’s consulting practice.
Van Bodegraven led many groundbreaking strategic,
operational, and educational projects for more than 150
U.S. and global companies in dozens of verticals. He
was a prolific writer and a dedicated teacher. He was the
principal author of DC VELOCITY’s Basic Training column, which he co-wrote for many years with his fellow
industry expert Ken Ackerman. He and Ackerman also
wrote Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, the
definitive primer in the field. His popular blog, “The Art
of Art,” has been a staple of DC VELOCITY’s website. Van
Bodegraven was passionate about developing the next
generation of supply chain professionals and enjoyed
conducting workshops for CSCMP.
Van Bodegraven received a bachelor’s degree in edu-
cation from Purdue University. He was also a veteran of
the U.S. Army, having served as an intelligence officer
in Korea.
For an appreciation of van Bodegraven’s life and
work, see Page 59.
Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing is
expanding its North American corporate headquarters in Columbus, Ind. Construction on the existing
facility will add more than 150,000 square feet,
bringing the facility’s total space to 1. 3 million
square feet. … Barcoding Inc. has acquired NV3
Technologies and is relaunching the company as
“Power Up (a Barcoding Inc. Company).” The company has also acquired Versatile Mobile Systems Inc.
of Lynwood, Wash. … Dachser has become a majority shareholder of its partner in Ireland, Johnston
Logistics Ltd. … CBRE has negotiated the lease
of a 147,840-square-foot facility
to Southern Warehousing and
Distribution at the Interchange
East Distribution Center in San
Antonio. … Carrier Transicold
has signed an agreement to acquire select road
and rail transport product lines from the Impco
Technologies unit of Westport Fuel Systems Inc.
… The Waco System, a global freight network for
independent forwarders, has added three new
members across the Americas and along the Silk
Road: ITN Logistics in Canada, Trans Global Projects
in Azerbaijan, and ACE Logistics Bel in Belarus.
… Supply chain technology specialist Tecsys has
launched a pilot project in Europe for its point-of-use solutions. … Navis has announced that the Port
Newark Container Terminal (PNCT) in New Jersey
successfully handled a record number of containers
without disruption to its customers following its
January 2017 upgrade to the N4 terminal system. …
Dematic has announced that Alan Mulally, former
president and CEO of Ford Motor Co., will be a featured keynote speaker at its 2017 Material Handling
& Logistics Conference in September. … Hans-Mill
Corp. is opening a 121,000-square-foot manufacturing center near Jaxport’s North Jacksonville,
Fla., marine terminals. … NorthWest Handling
Systems Inc., a longtime Crown Equipment Corp.
lift truck dealer, has opened a new facility near
Yakima, Wash. … To support charity group Feeding
South Florida’s goal of providing food and services
to nearly 800,000 residents each year, Carrier has
donated five air conditioning split systems and
a refrigerated trailer for temporary cold storage
for use at the organization’s new distribution
and training center in Boynton Beach, Fla. … XPO
Logistics Inc. has completed the rebranding of its
North American less-than-truckload (LTL) business,
aligning XPO’s LTL operations in North America
with those in Europe.
short takes
Due to incorrect information provided to us, the article
“Supply chain visibility writ large” (June 2017, p. 46) contained several inaccuracies. Please note the following:
The Flex Pulse center in Milpitas, Calif., is one of several
such centers. Users’ ability to access, share, and manipulate Flex Pulse information is controlled by Flex Pulse
software. Finally, the information in the fourth paragraph about the ”customer view” and the information
in the final paragraph regarding decision-making time
and costs is inaccurate and should be disregarded.
oversight
CBRE
