In this interview, I talk with Joe Andraski, the President and CEO of VICS. Joe shares with us the history of VICS and some of their early successes as a "standards" organization, and also many of the challenges that VICS is taking on as they look to the future. As Joe mentions, the past successes of VICS has only "scratched the surface" and there is much more to come!

That includes more with Joe Andraski, as well. Look forward to future interviews with Mr Andraski, where he and I talk about collaborative commerce and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), GS1, RFID and EPC Global and the relationships between the business and the educational communities. All these interviews are coming in the next few months, so keep coming back!

Private Industry goes to the moon!

In this episode, I talk with Tom Taylor about his company, Lunar Transportation Systems. He shares with us some of his experiences in remote locations with extreme environments that he believes provide valuable experience by analogy to operations on the Moon. In addition, he shares with us why he believes there is a business case for going to the moon, and how it need not just be NASA.

Helium-3. Who knew?

If you find this concept of "space logistics" interesting, please, join us for discussions in the forums. And keep checking, because I have more interviews planned with people actively engaged in Space Logistics, including hopefully an interview with Dr DeWeck from MIT!

I presented my paper on Podcasting in Supply Chain Education. The paper received the "Teaching Innovation Award" for best paper in teaching innovations.

From the paper:

I talk with Ken Lyon, Managing Director of Bit Logistics, and with Jean-Baptiste Perrin, responsible for Support and Marketing at BitLogistics. They share with us their approach to delivering what some call "Software as a Service" (SaaS), or software available "On-Demand". Solutions like this are one facet of the "Cloud Computing" phenomena and they explain that it enables supply chain partners to more readily share appropriate information in a timely way.

In this episode, I talk with Alan Day, the owner and managing director of State of Flux, a company focused on helping companies improve Supply Relationship Management (SRM). We talk about the importance of these relationships, understanding the complexities and nuances in SRM, and some of the ways State of Flux works with businesses.

Alan provided an article he has written, sharing with us his view on "A Winning Position." Take the time to download it and read it!