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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.
The point is, we worked in the execution of basic physical distribution and that’s how we learned about logistics and supply chain. Later in our careers, we gravitated toward planning and strategic issues related to our functional specialties. We became bosses if we lived long enough, or managed to dance through the minefields of corporate politics. The overwhelming majority of us were – and still are - auto-didacts, self-taught, learning-by-doing professionals. As succeeding generations of educated practitioners entered the field, we were simultaneously encouraged, jealous, and a little frightened.
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Bruce Strahan is a Partners in The Progress Group, Inc., an international supply chain and logistics consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta. He lead the Supply Chain and Manufacturing practice groups for TPG. Bruce did his graduate work at Georgia Tech, and was previously a Manager in Coopers & Lybrand’s SysteCon division. He may be reached at
770-804-9920 or bstrahan@theprogressgroup.com
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