About the Author

Michael Hugos is an author, award‐winning chief information officer and co‐founder of SCM Globe, a cloud‐based supply chain modeling and simulation application used in education and industry. He has designed and delivered supply chain applications for organizations such as Microsoft Xbox, Starbucks Coffee, U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command, and the World Food Program.

Previously he was chief information officer of a global distribution cooperative where he developed a suite of supply chain and e‐business systems that transformed the company's operations and revenue model. For this work he received the CIO 100 Award for resourcefulness, the InformationWeek 500 Award for innovation, and the Premier 100 Award for career achievement.

His undergraduate degree is in urban planning and design from the University of Cincinnati, and he earned his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is author of the popular supply chain book Essentials of Supply Chain Management, now in its fourth edition. He has also written several other business and technical books as well as the historical novel Leptis Magna: Emperor's Dream on the Edge of the Desert.

He can be reached at mhugos@scmglobe.com. You can view and download his supply chain presentations on SlideShare ‐ https://www.slideshare.net/mhugos, and see his supply chain videos on YouTube ‐ https://www.youtube.com/user/SCMGlobeC.

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