Art van Bodegraven is Practice Leader, S4 Consulting and president of Van Bodegraven Associates and a former partner in The Progress Group, LLC., as well as former chairman of the Supply Chain Group AG, a global consortium of supply chain consultancies of which The Progress Group was a founding member. He is also a Development Executive in CSCMP's educational programs. Concentrating in logistics and supply chain management for over 20 years, he has been involved in ground-breaking strategic and operational projects for leading U.S. and global clients. For seven years, he has co-authored with Kenneth Ackerman the "Basic Training" monthly column for DC Velocity. Van Bodegraven conceived and co-authored the CSCMP workshop series Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management (also in its seventh year) and its sequel, Executive Issues in Supply Chain Management.