Logistics leaders' Evening Talk

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Sri Lanka conducted the first Logistics Leaders Evening Talk recently at the auditorium of National Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka.

The topic for the evening was 'Decision making for Logistics Professionals'. The talk was conducted by Dr. Errol Wirasinghe of San Francisco, USA.

The seminar provided an insight into the tools and techniques available to make decisions that are timely, consistent, optimal, and defensible.

He said that problem solving and decision-making were not the same; problem solving being the process of coming up with a range of potential solutions for the problem at hand, and decision-making being the process of identifying the optimal one, for implementation. Dr. Wirasinghe, developer of the XpertUS Decision Support System (software), is the author of two books on decision-making.

He has trained several Fortune 500 companies, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of Houston's MBA program.