Daniel N. Lucht

This grounding in operations is important, says Daniel Lucht, vice president of operations for ProPack, a third party logistics (3PL) provider that serves small and growing companies with warehousing, transportation, packaging, and other services. ìI think true leadership skills can only be learned by doing.Having a performance review with a low-performing employee, delivering news of a layoff, addressing a substance abuse issue, or even running an effective meeting, are all things that simply just have to be learned through trial and error,î he says. [Itís interesting to note that high-level supply chain managers at 3PLs say their companies have an ìoperations directorî rather than a ìsupply chain directorî because supply chain is the very core of the companyís essence, and that having a ìsupply chain director of supply chainî title would be redundant.Weíll have to monitor this situation.óthe CSCO Editors.]

In addition to extensive operations experience, supply chain managers often also have consulting experience, and graduate-level degrees.Lucht has a bachelor of science in management degree and an MBA with a general business emphasis, and heís also taking logistics courses.
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Learn about a variety of business and social topics and file things away in your head for use later,î says Lucht of ProPack. ìDonít sacrifice quality for quantity, and at the same time, donít pigeonhole yourself deeply into a particular niche.

Dan Lucht, VP of Operations, Propack Logistics, Inc.

Dan Lucht, VP of Operations,Propack Logistics, Inc.

An interview with Daniel Lucht, vice president of operations for ProPack www.propack.com.

Supply Chain Systems Magazine: As a supply chain/operations manager in the challenging area of third-party logistics (3PLs), how do you choose which technology to implement to better serve your company and your customers?

Daniel Lucht: The most challenging issue for ProPack right now related to tech is how to provide the right level of capability for our particular niche of client.

An interview with Daniel Lucht, vice president of operations for ProPack www.propack.com.

Daniel N. LuchtVP, Operations, ProPack Inc.

Dan Lucht, VP of Operations, Propack Logistics, Inc.

Faced with continuing to throw good money after problems that the classic software package would never be able to address, Dan Lucht of ProPack asked Bob Jones of The Socrates Group (at the time DeWaard & Jones) to help design an interim solution while they investigated a warehousing software package that could meet their needs.