CSCMP announces recipients of annual honors; Pienaar to receive Distinguished Service Award

Each year, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) presents a series of awards that recognize practitioners, academics, and other individuals for outstanding achievements and contributions to the profession. CSCMP has announced the winners of three of those awards, to be presented at its 2013 Annual Global Conference in Denver:

• Dr. Abré Pienaar, chief executive officer of iPlan, will receive CSCMP's highest honor, the 2013 Distinguished Service Award. "[Pienaar] is a champion of innovation and creativity, converting ideas into actions, and helping others to do the same," said Rick Blasgen, CSCMP's president and chief executive officer, in announcing the award.
• Dr. Jason A. Acimovic, assistant professor of supply chain and information systems at Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business, will receive the 2013 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research titled "Lowering Outbound Shipping Costs in an Online Retail Environment by Making Better Fulfillment and Replenishment Decisions."
• Keiko Arai, leadership development program participant at Textron; Florian Schick, Head of Strategy and Business Development (Germany) for Merck Serono; and Amanda Tolhurst, senior manager, internal materials operations at Whirlpool Corp., are the recipients of CSCMP's new Emerging Leader Award. The award recognizes outstanding supply chain management and logistics professionals, age 30 and under, for their contributions to and promise of future influence on these two industries.