A Practical Application of Supply Chain Management Principles
Thomas I. Schoenfeldt is the President of Schoenfeldt Services, Inc., a consulting firm helping companies with supplier management issues and quality system development. He has more than 30 years experience in a variety of industries in the US and southeast Asia. He is an active Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Vice Chair of Section Affairs for the Greater Detroit Section of ASQ, and the treasurer for the Customer Supplier Division of ASQ. He has served as a subject matter expert for the Customer-Supplier Division of ASQ since 1999. He is currently a member of the Technical Program Committee for the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement (ASQ). He was honored as the Quality Professional of the Year in 2002 by the ASQ Automotive Division. He is a contributing author to The Supply Management Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2006) and the ASQ Certified Quality Manager certification. He has been a prepublication book reviewer for Prentice-Hall and John Wiley & Sons. He received the R. A. (Rick) Maass Award from Customer Supplier Division of ASQ for his publications and presentations in the area of customer-supplier relations (2006). He is on the Board of Directors of the Angileri Quality Institute at Madonna University, Livonia, MI, and also serves on its Business Advisory Committee and Curriculum Development Committee. He has served on the Board of Examiners for the Michigan Quality Council (MQC), based on Malcolm Baldrige criteria, from 1996 to 2004 and chaired the planning committee for the MQC Spring Sharing Conference for two years. He is a guest lecturer at Michigan State University in the Chemical Engineering Department.