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About the Authors
Greg L. Schlegel, CPIM, CSP, JONAH is the vice president of business
development for Shertrack LLC. He has been a supply chain executive for
more than 30years with several Fortune 100 companies and spent seven
years as an IBM supply chain executive consultant. Greg was APICS’
1997 International Society President. He is well published and a frequent
speaker at conferences, seminars, webinars, and dinner meetings.
Greg has taught operations management at the University of Scranton
and has been guest lecturer at Arizona State University, St. Johns
University, and Rutgers University. He is presently a member of the
Business Analytics Roundtable for Villanova University, a member of
the board of advisors for Rutgers University’s supply chain undergradu-
ate program, and executive in residence for Lehigh University’s Center for
Value Chain Research. Greg has taught graduate level supply chain risk
management at Lehigh University and has been facilitating supply chain
risk management public workshops and the new APICS- supported Supply
Chain Risk Certicate workshops around the globe for over three years.
He is founder of the Supply Chain Risk Consortium, a group of 13 com-
panies providing education, assessment tools, and consulting services in
support of supply chain risk management projects. He teaches enterprise
risk management at Villanova in their Executive MBA program. Greg is
certied CPIM, CSP in systems, and a eory of Constraints– certied
JONAH. He holds a BS in operations research and computer science from
Penn State University and did his graduate work at Lake Forest College.
Greg presently lives in Flemington, New Jersey, with his wife Mariann.
He can be reached at schlegel01@earthlink.net.
Robert J. Trent, PhD is the supply chain management program direc-
tor at Lehigh University. He holds a BS degree in materials logistics man-
agement from Michigan State University, an MBA degree from Wayne
State University, and a PhD in purchasing/ operations management from
Michigan State University.
Prior to his return to academia, Bob worked for the Chrysler Corporation.
His industrial experience includes assignments in production scheduling,
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packaging engineering with responsibility for new part packaging setup
and the purchase of nonproductive materials, distribution planning, and
operations management at a regional parts distribution facility. He has
also worked on numerous special industry projects. Bob stays active with
industry through research projects, consulting, and training services. He
has consulted with or provided training services to 40 government agen-
cies and corporations and worked directly with companies on dozens of
research visits.
Bob has authored or co- authored six books and dozens of articles
appearing in a range of business publications. He has also co- authored
ve major research studies published by CAPS Research and has made
presentations at numerous conferences and seminars.
Bob and his family reside in Lopatcong Township, New Jersey. He can
be reached at rjt2@lehigh.edu.
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