Outstanding Logisticians Hailed at CLM Meeting
William C. Copacino won the group's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, for significant contributions to logistics management. Mr. Copacino, managing partner of the Strategic Services Practice with Anderson Consulting, authored definitive logistics and supply management texts and articles and has been a mentor to industry managers and students. He has long advocated redefining logistics functions and channel integration.
Two Michigan State University faculty members, David J. Closs, professor of marketing and logistics, and Theodore P. Stank, assistant professor of marketing and logistics, share the E. Grosvenor Plowman grant. It is given yearly to the authors of the paper judged to contribute the most to the logistics profession through original material and thought. The two men wrote "Designing a Cross-Functional Curriculum for Supply Chain Education at Michigan State University."
The 1998 Doctoral Dissertation Award went to John L. Kent, assistant professor of logistics and transportation at Southwest Missouri State University, for his work on the effect of investment in inter-organizational information technology on a retail supply chain.
