Publications
Art has been, and continues to be, a prolific writer in the field. In addition to the Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management book featured in News and Events, he has been principal co-author of DC Velocity's monthly Basic Training articles, which were based on the book's topical chapters. 2009 has seen an extension of those articles into supply chain areas well beyond the fundamentals. While the montly series will continue, Art has been selected as one of DC Velocity's initial stable of regular bloggers.
Much of his writing has appeared in Ken Ackerman's Warehousing Forum over the past dozen years, including: Cost Reduction: Back To the Future and Boom!, which deals with explosive growth challenges for facilities.
In addition to DC Velocity and Warehousing Forum, Art's writing and quotes have appeared in: USA Today, Columbus Business First, Inbound Logistics, Material Handling Management, Modern Material Handling, Logistic Quarterly, Material Handling Engineering, Transportation & Distribution, Journal of Business Logistics, IIE Solutions, European Logistics, CLM/CSCMP's Logistics/Supply Chain Comment, WERCSheets, Executive Issues in Resource Management, Midwest Magazine, Building Relationships, Progress Report, and Hospital Productivity.
Check out his blogs at www.dcvelocity.com/blogs
We've been writing and speaking about green developments in the supply chain world for a few years. In the beginning, the theme centered on the transition of green from a curiosity embraced by wackos and malnourished tree-huggers into a mainstream movement that both CEOs and CFOs could ? and did ? get behind.
For decades a staple of both editorial and general humor cartoons in America has been a scraggly, bearded, besandaled zealot in shabby robes, bearing a placard or sandwich board sign proclaiming The End Is Near! Usually placed in an urban setting among well-dressed passers-by, the prophet signifying the imminence of End Times was ignored, overlooked, or made sport of to the tune of a well-placed punch line.
Debate about what leadership means can rage endlessly, and often does. Definitions of leadership abound, each with at least a superficial aura of 'gee, that makes sense. But there's lots of variance among definitions and definitive examples.
All the live-long day, if you would believe the old song. Not many of us in today?s world of supply chain management actually worked on a railroad, but many of us worked somewhere around trucks. And, another large population of us worked in warehouses and distribution centers.
It's time to talk turkey about this "relationships" thing. We've been awash in hot air and bologna for quite a while, leading to interpretations that relationships and relationship management are the purview of the Sales and Marketing folks, as they try to wring more out of key customers. A corollary view has been that relationships are really all about doing the ?right? things, making all parties feel good, and, with some luck, realizing a few benefits along the way.