EDGE 2020

Convoy CEO: Things I learned at warehouses and truck stops

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of trucking services firm Convoy, spent time at truck stops, warehouses and other places, talking with logistics professionals to figure out why supply chains “weren’t reaching their full potential.”

“When Convoy was founded, there was a lot of talk about how technology was going to revolutionize the industry,” Lewis said during the town hall series at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) 2020 EDGE Supply Chain Virtual Conference and...

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Workplace innovator advises 1-degree shifts for big gains

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and changed the way businesses operate. 

Eric Termuende, a thought innovator on workplace culture, said the key to creating a successful “workplace of tomorrow” is finding leaders who can recognize small shifts that can build workplaces that thrive.

“I believe it’s the small, little 1-degree shifts over and over and over that allow us to not just calibrate but recalibrate, that allow us to build a more intentional future and intentional...

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CSCMP Distinguished Service Award winner: the story of Matthew Waller

Matt Waller given CSCMP award

Matthew Waller looked at his calendar and saw that he had a meeting scheduled with Doug McMillion, CEO of Walmart (NYSE: WMT). He didn’t remember scheduling such a meeting, so he asked his assistant about it, only to be told it was a meeting requested by McMillion.

“It had me nervous. I wondered if I had screwed something up,” Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business and professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas. told FreightWaves. The meeting, it turned...

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Career Tracks: Supply chain professor nets CSCMP award

Matthew A. Waller has been named the recipient of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) 2020 Distinguished Service Award.

The award will be presented during the CSCMP EDGE 2020 Live! Conference and Exhibition opening session Sept. 20. 

James Wainscott joins CSX’s board. (Photo: CSX)

Waller is the dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He also is a professor of supply chain management and holds the Sam M. Walton endowed leadership...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/career-tracks-supply-chain-professor-nets-cscmp-award