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    Managing Your Transportation with Steve Turpin

    Save the Date for the October Meeting!!!
    October 9, 2008 at the Country Club of Roswell

    Does your company merely Ship Packages or do you Manage Transportation?
    Sign up now for the October 9th Professional Development Meeting at the Country Club of Roswell and hear how companies are thinking outside the box when it comes to moving goods….
    And, maybe win a FREE Trip to Charlotte!!!

    Enter at the Professional Development Meeting!

    And you might be one of two members who will win free trips to the 94th Annual ISM International Supply Management Conference and Educational Exhibit, May 3-6, 2009, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
    As a manager of Transportation Process and Technology for The Clorox Company, Steve Turpin was not satisfied with the facts.  With an annual transportation spend in the hundreds of millions of dollars, nearly 2000 shipments per day, over 12,000 locations to service, using all types of transportation modes,  there had to be a better way to manage it all.
    Getting to the Managing of Transportation from the Shipping of Packages mind set was a journey, but Turpin engaged all areas that touched his processes and ended up with a Transportation Management solution that organized the processes and saved his company money in many areas.

    Through Centralized Planning and Management, Clorox transformed its manual transportation processes by initiating a best practice of centralized management for over 135 shipping locations; lowering costs by automating the transportation process and removing non-value added tasks; and reducing their dependence on in-house IT expertise to deliver a solution.

    Here his step by step account of the transformation from just shipping to really managing the movement of goods at Clorox.

    About the Speaker…

    Steve Turpin has spent twenty years in working in the supply chain industry, most currently as a transportation technology & process manager for the Clorox Company, located in Alpharetta, GA.  Prior to Clorox, he was a manager of transportation for the Huber Engineered Materials (a JM Huber Company) a commodity manufacturer located in Atlanta, GA.  Steve also has experience in the supply chain technology space working for Manugistics in both implementations and business development.   Additionally Turpin has management experience with the Dannon Company, and Ryder Dedicated Logistics.  He is holds a degree in Business Logistics, from the University of Tennessee.

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