OCTOBER BRINGS US THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this year
taking place in Denver. It is one of the most important meetings in logistics
or supply chain management every year, bringing together as it does practitioners, academics, vendors, and scribblers like those on my staff and me.
For the editors of DC VELOCITY and our sister publication, CSCMP’s Supply
Chain Quarterly, it is a chance to reconnect with many of the professionals
we’ve engaged with over the years and to gather insights into the latest trends
and developments in supply chain, logistics, transportation, and material
handling. What we learn will help drive our coverage for the coming year.
The organizers have put together a program that
covers a lot of ground—frankly, far more than any
individual or even an entire staff can reasonably expect
to take in. The trick in attending, I’ve learned over the
past quarter century, is to pick your sessions carefully
and to make sure to engage in plenty of conversation in
the hallways. In fact, those informal conversations produce some of the best stories.
But only a small portion of our readers will have the
chance to attend the conference, and that’s where we
come in. The editors hope to meet with some of the
more innovative and forward-thinking practitioners
taking part in the event and from those discussions,
develop stories that may spur thoughts on ways you
can improve your own company’s performance.
As you are probably aware, we do that in a variety of ways today. Our
print publication remains our principal way of reaching our audience,
but we also know that you seek information via many other channels. So
we’ve developed a series of electronic newsletters in addition to providing regular updates on developments in the logistics and supply chain
world on our website, producing videos and webcasts on a variety of topics, and engaging more frequently with social media.
Our editors spend a good part of the year at conferences like CSCMP’s
and those offered by other excellent organizations, such as the
Warehousing Education and Research Council, the National Industrial
Transportation League, MHI (formerly the Material Handling Industry
of America), and the International Warehouse Logistics Association.
Even the largest of those can bring in only a minuscule fraction of the
practitioners out there who can use the ideas and insights shared at those
conferences. We consider it an important part of our role to act as your
eyes and ears at those and other events.
As always, please let me know how you think we can do better.
bigpicture
Editorial Director
Eyes and ears on the
conference front
Peter Bradley
Editorial Director
peter@dcvelocity.com
Karen Bachrach
Executive Editor
karen@dcvelocity.com
Toby Gooley
Senior Editor
tgooley@dcvelocity.com
David Maloney
Senior Editor, Special Projects & eContent
dmaloney@dcvelocity.com
Mark Solomon
Senior Editor
mark@dcvelocity.com
Susan Lacefield
Associate Managing Editor
slacefield@dcvelocity.com
James Cooke
Editor at Large
jcooke@dcvelocity.com
Steve Geary
Editor at Large
sgeary@dcvelocity.com
George Weimer
Editor at Large
gweimer@dcvelocity.com
Erica E. Mac Donald
Assistant Editor
Keisha Capitola
Director of Creative Services
keisha@dcvelocity.com
Jeff Thacker
Director of eMedia
jeff@dcvelocity.com
Columnists:
Clifford F. Lynch
Kenneth B. Ackerman
Art van Bodegraven
Gary Master
Publisher
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Mitch Mac Donald
Group Editorial Director
mitch@dcvelocity.com
Jim Indelicato
Group Publisher
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