William T. Walker, CFPIM, CIRM works in EPSG Design for Supply Chain at Agilent Technologies, the Hewlett-Packard spin-off. Bill was the Transfer Program Manager for Power Products transfers to Malaysia prior to his work in the Electronic Products and Solutions Group (EPSG), and was honored among the "Top Twenty Logistics Executives for 2000" at the Logistics Forum. Bill has been the architect of supply chain management for the Power Products Division of Hewlett-Packard where he worked 30 years as a leader and practitioner. Bill has led cross-functional teams to design and operate international supply chains and to outsource captive production operations. His experience includes work in business process engineering, virtual enterprising, international logistics and distribution, materials management, purchasing, supplier management, new product introduction, operations planning, production engineering, software R&D project management, and hardware R&D product development. Bill holds BSEE and MSIE degrees from Lehigh University. He is certified by APICS in production and inventory management at the fellow level (CFPIM) and in integrated resource management (CIRM).
Mr. Walker has provided voluntary leadership to APICS at the society board of director level for ten years. Bill was awarded the 1999 APICS Society Volunteer Service Award. He is currently a Subject Matter Expert on Advanced Supply Chain Management for the APICS Certification & Curriculum Council. Bill is author of the web-based "Build A Competitive Infrastructure" courseware and co-author of the web-based "Leverage Worldwide Logistics" courseware for the APICS Advanced Supply Chain Management education on-line released in 2001. He served six years with the APICS Educational & Research Foundation, and was their 1997-98 President, and their 1994-96 Treasurer. Mr. Walker served APICS as the 1992-93 Vice President of Education Development for Specific Industry Groups where he managed education materials development within the Aerospace & Defense, Process Industry, Repetitive, Remanufacturing, Small Manufacturing, and Textile/ Apparel SIG Committees. He is a past APICS Region Vice President and APICS Chapter President. Mr. Walker is co-author of Supply Chain Management: Principles & Techniques for the Practitioner published in 1998 and the author of "Chapter 21: Logistics Planning," Production & Inventory Control Handbook, Third Edition published in 1997.
Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices