From SCDigest’s On-Target E-Magazine Program is Latest in Series of Steps to Build Supply Chain Presence beyond Materials Handling Roots SCDigest Editorial Staff MHI – the former Materials Handling Institute of America – continues its aggressive moves to become a supply chain focused organization from its long roots in materials handling systems with a new initiative aimed at promoting careers in supply chain. Called iWorkinTheSupplyChain, the effort is focused on increasing awareness of careers in supply chain and championing the role of blue and white collars serving in supply chain related positions. Whether iWorkinTheSupplyChain takes off will of course remain to be seen, but MHI continues to invest time and resources in its efforts at transforming itself into a supply chain force. The awareness campaign has a number of elements, starting with a home page that features a number of individuals working in the supply chain who share their stories of how they came upon a supply chain related career and their current roles. This will be an on-going effort, presumably with dozens or hundreds of other supply chainers sharing their personnel stories in coming months and maybe years by posting to a blog on the site. Each post can include links on YouTube or other sites where a person’s story can be told in video form as well. Those posting on the blog are automatically entered to win the 2016 MHI "Face of Supply Chain" award. This designation will honor a supply chain professional whose personal story "demonstrates the hard work, creative-thinking and a commitment to innovation it takes to succeed in this industry," according to MHI. Official criteria for the award include: • The nominee’s story as it ties together the influence the supply chain has had on them, their company, family, and/or their community. • The […]