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5/27/09 || Joel Sutherland will be presenting at the South Central Pennsylvania CSCMP Roundtable. For more information go to the CSCMP Events site.

4/14/09 || Joel Sutherland moderated a panel discussion at the Lehigh Valley CSCMP Roundtable. For more information go to the Lehigh Valley Roundtable Events site.

3/19/09 || Drew McElroy moderated a panel discussion at the New Jersey CSCMP Roundtable. For more information, visit the New Jersey Roundtable meetings & events page.

3/5/09 || Joel Sutherland presented at the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) seminar in Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit the ISM-Atlanta website.

2/24/09 || Joel Sutherland presented at the Lehigh Valley CSCMP Roundtable. For more information go to the CSCMP Events site.

2/19/09 || Joel Sutherland presented at the APICS West Jersey meeting. For more information contact Johnna Sucha. (click the link, or email to johnna.sucha@effem.com)

1/13/09 || Joel Sutherland presented at the Jacksonville, FL CSCMP Roundtable. For more information go to the CSCMP Events site.

12/3/08 || Joel Sutherland presented at the SpeedChain International Logistic Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information go to their website.

10/29/08 || PRESS RELEASE: Business is growing at PDI

9/22/08 || Joel Sutherland was the keynote speaker at the “The World is Open for Business—Going for the Gold” event at Lehigh University. For more information, view the Program Schedule.

9/18/08 || Joel Sutherland participated in a panel discussion at Mars (Snackfood) Commercial Competencies Meeting in Princeton, NJ addressing supply chain planning and execution.

5/4-5/7/08 || WERC Annual Conference - Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL

Joel Sutherland spoke on 5/6 from 1:45-3:00pm on "Applying Toyota Production / Lean Principles to Improve Supply Chain Performance" . Joel was also the Roundtable Discussion Moderator on "Transportation Challenges and Solutions".

Visit WERC's website for more conference details and the online program.

1/28-1/31/08 || Interlog 2008 in Lake Buena Vista, FL

PDI's Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy & Marketing, spoke at the Interlog 2008 conference at Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL on January 28-31, 2008. For more information, contact Ariel Borksowsky.

11/12-11/13/07 || Field Service Long Cycle Forum in Atlanta, GA

PDI's Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy & Marketing, spoke at the Field Service Long Cycle Forum at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown on November 12-13, 2007. For more information, visit their website.

10/21-10/24/07 || CSCMP Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA

PDI's Joel Sutherland presented at the CSCMP Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA on 10/23/07. Sutherland will be facilitating a session along with Air Products and Elemica on the subject of "Forecasting and Planning of Daily Orders to Meet Customer Requirements". For more information, visit CSCMP's site.

9/7/07 || Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, Bethlehem, PA

PDI's Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy & Marketing, spoke at the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation’s  The World Is Open For Business seminar being held at Lehigh University, Iacocca Hall, in Bethlehem, PA on September 7, 2007.  You may download the BROCHURE and RSVP FORM here.  For further information, visit http://www.lehighvalley.org and click on Events.

06/25/07 || PDI's Joel Sutherland at eyefortransport 3PL Summit in Atlanta

"At two separate but related conferences, PDI's Joel Sutherland delivered presentations and ran workshops concerning the role of collaboration in the 3PL world and the expanding influence of value added services. The event will last three days from June 25th to June 27th."

06/05/07 || Transportation Network Strategy conference

PDI's Joel Sutherland spoke at the Transportation Network Strategy conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, downtown Atlanta, on June 5-6. His two presentations will cover Lean Transportation – Applying Toyota Production System Techniques to Solve Current Challenges and Facing Transportation Challenges Head-On to Counteract the Impact of Economic Shifts ( http://www.wbresearch.com/usa.asp )

03/20/07 || PDI at SCOR Presentation in Philadelphia 

"PDI's Joel Sutherland, Executive Vice President, spoke at the Supply Chain World Conference and Exhibition concerning the role of Collaborative Transportation, and its potential to resolve the current transportation crisis. His presentation is attached."

05/10/07 || PDI's Joel Sutherland to speak at the CSCMP Delware Valley

Annual Best Practices Symposium

"Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy, spoke at the CSCMP Delaware Valley 8th Annual Best Practices Symposium, which will be held on Thursday, May 10th at The Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley. The event will start with breakfast at 7:30 am and will conclude at 3:00 pm."

3/19-21 || PDI's Joel Sutherland spoke at the 2007 Supply-Chain World

North America Conference 

"Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy, spoke at the Supply-Chain World North America 2007 Conference and Exhibition at the Sheraton Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (see attached)."

03/13/07 || PDI's Joel Sutherland to gave a presentation at CSCMP Roundtable

"Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy, made a presentation to the Lehigh Valley, PA CSCMP Roundtable on March 13, 2007 on Supply Chain Collaboration. For more information contact Rick Dineen at DSC Logistics."

01/15/07 || PDI's Joel Sutherland featured in Inbound Logistics Magazine 

"Joel Sutherland, representing Priority Distribution Inc., was recently interviewed in Inbound Logistics Magazine to answer question five ('Does true supply chain collaboration exist?') in a series of questions posed to the industry's top experts about solutions in the supply chain industry."

11/08/06|| PDI at NYC CSCMP 

"Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy, made a presentation to the NYC CSCMP Roundtable meeting on November 8, 2006 (see attached) on Collaboration in Transportation... Myth or Reality."

10/06 || PDI in Written Literature

"Joel Sutherland, Vice President Strategy, contributed to the chapter on Transportation Management for the Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management, published by Sage Publications and released October 2006"

10/15-10/18/06 || PDI Case Study Approved for CSCMP 2006 

"Case Study - Priority Distribution’s Case Study (attached) on Pool Distribution Services approved by CSCMP for their annual conference in San Antonio, TX."

08/26/06 || PDI appoints Joel Sutherland as Vice President of Strategy  

"PDI today announced that Joel Sutherland has joined the company as Vice President of Strategy. Mr. Sutherland has a distinguished career with over twenty five years of experience as a logistics/supply chain professional (see attached)."