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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