ASR Carol Ptak

Complementing her position as an Internationally recognized authority in the use of ERP and Supply Chain tools to drive improved bottom line performance, Carol Ptak is a leading authority on ASR Actively Synchronized Replenishment.

Members of APICS, the Educational Society for Resource Management, know Carol as a past-CEO  of APICS, having earned the professional qualifications of CPIM (Fellow level) and CIRM; today she is still one of the most sought-after speakers in the organization and in industry conferencesof all kinds.

Carol’s experience is extraordinary. After 5 years of operating her own consulting firm where clients included companies such as Boeing and Starbucks, and years of executive management experience at the IBM Corporation and PeopleSoft (Carol most recently served as the Vice President and global industry executive for manufacturing and distribution industries for PeopleSoft), Carol Ptak is today Visiting Professor and Executive in Residence at Pacific Lutheran University.

Carol holds her MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and is an accomplished author with many published articles as well as books published on the topics of MRP, ERP and Supply Chain management; she coauthored her most recent book with Eli Goldratt, authour of The Goal and originator iof the Theory of Constraints, and Eli Schragenheim, a leading expert in TOC.

With her training as a Jonah in Theory of Constraints, industry-leading expertise in ERP and Supply Chain management, and leading-edge understanding of the ASR Actively Synchronized Replenishment technology, Carol is uniquely positioned as an ASR speaker and presenter and she is available for in-house presentations as well as being a participant in ASR Webinars.

With Chad Smith of Constraints Management Group, Carol co-authored the ASR Actively Synchronized Replenishment White Paper Beyond  MRP – Meeting the Current Materials Challenge.