Organization of Women in International Trade
Dallas / Fort Worth Chapter

 February 24th
(Date Changed)
Logistics Technology Event

NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event must be postponed by one week. The new date will be February 24th (next Friday). If you have already registered and the new event date will not work, please send us an email and we will ensure your registration fee is credited over to the next event.

Please join us for a look into what our educational system is teaching students now so they can meet the supply chain demands of the future. Tom Harrington of North Lake College will provide an overview of the latest educational trends in Logistics Technology. Tom is engaged regularly with organizations throughout the Metroplex in training and process development.

As noted in RILA’s 2012 *Supply Chain* Sustainability Report:
Working across sectors to achieve sustainability goals. Achieving the social and environmental goals that retailers are setting is a significant challenge, often requiring expertise not yet available within an organization. To forge a path forward where there often is no precedent, retailers are reaching out to nonprofits, academics, and governments, as well as to their suppliers, consumers, investors, vendors, and communities. These stakeholders provide diverse perspectives that can accelerate sustainable innovation. Such groups are working to incent retailers to reduce energy, improve product sustainability, ensure proper supplier labor conditions, and more.

Speakers
Thomas C. Harrington, Ph.D. Logistics Technology Program, North Lake College
Dr. Tom Harrington has served as program coordinator of the Logistics Technology program at North Lake College since the summer of 2010. He spent a 20-year career in transportation and logistics in the Air Force, retiring as director of the transportation programs branch at the Pentagon. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration, with a major in operations management, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an M.B.A. in transportation and logistics from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana; and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics, with a major in aeronautical administration, from Parks College of St. Louis University in Cahokia, Illinois.

Tom’s extensive academic experience includes serving as a management professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado; and as a professor in decision sciences and coordinator of undergraduate programs at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. He also served as an associate professor of decision sciences and logistics research associate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida; and as an associate professor of logistics management and program manager at the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Tom has had several scholarly articles published, including the Journal of Business Logistics and the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.

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