Professional Development Dinner: Thursday May 22,2008
Evolving Trends in Global Supply Chain Management – Outsourcing the SCM function
Speaker: Dr David Wile - Professor Colorado Technical University

5:30 Registration and Networking
6:00 Dinner and Presentation

Outline:

Outsourcing Supply Chain Management – Is it in your future?

Managing the supply chain is critical to the success of most businesses. However, SCM is often not a core competency of these businesses. As a result, there is an increasing trend to outsource this function. What does this trend mean to the supply chain professional? How could it affect SCM jobs in Southern Colorado? If this outsourced trend is carried to an end state, SCM functions could reside in the hand of a few international companies. Is this the right answer for your company? Is it the “right” answer for this profession?

As a supply chain professional, there are several questions you need to consider.

• What factors drive companies to the use of third party logistics providers or to outsource supply chain management?
• Are these factors present in your company?
• Should you work to address these factors to keep the function in house?
• What do you need to show management to convince them the function should not be outsourced?
• What are your options, if the organization decides to outsource SCM?
• Should NAPM of Southern Colorado have a position on or a plan to address this issue?
• If so, how can the chapter add value to its members in this area?

For information and approaches on this important issue, come to the Thursday, May 22nd meeting.

Who should attend:

• Supply Chain Managers, leads and staff
• CFOs and CPOs

Our Speaker:
Dr David Wile - Professor Colorado Technical University

Dr David Wile is the Program Chair for Project Management and Logistics at the Colorado Springs Campus of Colorado Technical University. In this capacity he designs, develops and teaches courses in project management and logistic. He earned in Doctorate in Management from Colorado Technical University, a Masters in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a BS in Business and Management (summa cum laude) from the University of Maryland. He is an honor graduate the USAF Supply Operations Management course. He also holds the Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) designation from the International Society of Logistics.

Prior to his current position, Dr Wile spent over 30 years in the Air Force working acquisition and sustainment issues for major DoD space and communication electronic systems. He was an integral part of AF efforts in Reliability & Maintainability, Computerized Acquisition and Logistics Support (CALS), Quality Management, and Life Cycle Costing.

He has published works on education, space logistics, logistics support analysis, and space systems reliability and maintainability in:

• The Journal of the Academy of Management Learning and Education
• The Air Force Journal of Logistics
• The Proceedings of the National Aerospace Electronic Conference
• The Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE)
• Various Air Force Space Command technical reports