Dr.
Barry Lawrence named holder of Hubbell Professorship
Dr. Barry Lawrence, associate professor in the Department of Engineering
Technology and Industrial Distribution, has been named holder of the
Harvey Hubbell Professorship in Industrial Distribution in the Dwight
Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. The Hubbell
Professorship is a development professorship, a new type of professorship
for associate professors, implemented by the Look College to recognize
and reward outstanding performance in teaching, research and service
of faculty with a high potential for continued professional growth.
PAID
Career Fair
The 9th Annual PAID Career Fair was held
Friday, February 6th, 2004 in Reed Arena at Texas A&M University.
Sixty two companies were involved in recruiting TAMU Industrial Distribution
students for both full-time and internship employment opportunities.
On Thursday 5ht, 2004 prior to Career Fair on Friday, members of the
participating companies and Industrial students played golf and later
attended a social in the evening.
International Visitors
to ID Program at TAMU
ID program hosted visitors from Universidad Panamericana during the
week of February 1st. During their stay the group visited Metro Stairs-Houston,
Inc, Ultra Clean Technology and Applied Materials at Austin along with
attending extensive session at the Supply Chain Systems Laboratory of
ID Program.
Video Lab Startup
A brand new facility is under completion in Thompson Hall and will be
fully operational by Friday, February 27. This Video Laboratory has
three interview rooms along with a central control room. The interview
rooms have video recording facilities with multimedia support for video
and graphics editing. This facility will be used by students taking
IDIS430-Sales Engineering in the development of their sales and communication
skills. The lab will also be used to record video lectures for instructional
and training purpose.
IDEA Educational Conference
1st annual meeting of Industrial Distributors Educators Association
(IDEA) will be held from March 4-5 at the Caribe Royale Resort and Convention
Center in Orlando, Florida; in conjunction with the annual meeting of
the Federation of Business Disciplines. As part of the conference, Program
coordinators from variety of Industrial Distribution Programs will discuss
"Emerging Trends in Industrial Distribution Education".
Research Funding for Yr 2004
As per TEES statistics, Industrial Distribution Program's research funding
reached over $250,000 for fiscal year 2004. Industrial Distribution
faculty is actively involved in the applied research in partnership
with Industrial distribution industry on wide range of topics.
Upcoming CDM Module: Inventory
& Operations Management Seminar!
Learn the latest "cutting-edge" techniques for improving inventory
and operations management. The Read Center is presenting a seminar,
which is part of the three-module Certificate in Distribution Management
(CDM).
Inventory is one of the distributor's largest assets and the inability
to properly control it can result in lost business, profits, or both.
Learn the distributors' role in supply chain management, and how distributors
and their suppliers can use information-based inventory management to
create competitive advantage.
- Understand that one of the primary drivers of inventory is forecast
error
- Learn how to better forecast and manage inventory
- Learn inventory re-order point logic and how to use it to reduce total
inventory investment while improving customer service
- Manage inventory for improved turns and cash flow
- How to achieve an optimal logistics operation.
- Establish meaningful operations and customer service performance metrics
- Improve operations cycle times and increase asset utilization
- Learn the benefits of re-order point logic to determine when and how
much to buy
- Understand how to determine accurate holding and stock-out costs
To learn more about the other two modules of the CDM,
Leading the Sales Team, and Improving distributor Profitability, go
to http://readcenter.tamu.edu and click on seminars.
