Introduction
Time was that diversity in our world meant that a person of the feminine persuasion had snagged a job customarily performed by males. In sensitive and progressive organizations, the ramifications of the event were that we had to stop telling jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers’ daughters.
But our world has changed – a lot. It is no longer populated by hard-drinking overweight traffic managers and warehouse supervisors. It is a commonplace to find women running distribution operations – big ones. It is not rare for a female executive to have complete responsibility for a corporate supply chain.
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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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