Preston W. Blevins career spans over forty-five years with two related careers. The first as a manufacturing operations and supply-chain practitioner, and the second in the ERP/supply-chain software industry. During his second career, he has specialized in helping companies understand, acquire, implement, and maintain world-class business practices and systems using advanced information technology. Responsibilities during this second career have included general management, program/project management, marketing, sales, consulting, and education and training. He has lived and worked offshore on several multi-year assignments focused on business unit start-up or turn-around. He has been involved with the professional association APICS in many key management positions as a volunteer including service as a corporate Board of Director (BOD).

Blevins has authored more than fifty conference white papers and magazine articles. Topics covered in these publications include Advanced Master Scheduling (and S&OP), complex manufacturing (ET0), service centric manufacturing, the food supply-chain, and industrial eco-sustainability. Our podcast discussed Preston's new book Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain (Resource Management).

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