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EMAnatorVolume 29, Issue 1

The Newsletter of the Expediting Management AssociationVisit us at: www.expedite.org

February 2011

The EMAnator, Volume 29 Issue 1 February 2011 1

President’s MessageStacie Wolfer, C.E.M.President’s Message From the Editor

Denis P. Murphy C.E.M

Every so often, I'm asked a question about our Association. “The Question”, while it may take different forms, is usually a variation of this: “Why belong to the E.M.A…….. ….What's in it for me?”The mission of the E.M.A is to promote and advance expediting as an important link in the Supply Chain. To this end, we are constantly gathering knowledge from our members and other sources. This knowledge is passed on through our Workshop/Conferences, Seminars, articles in our newsletter, the EMAnator, or through our Training Program. Our mission is to increase the knowledge and improve the skills of our membership and all expediters. The E.M.A also strives to present a positive image of expediting to the business community, and to enhance this image to our clients and to our employers. The Association strives to present expediters as competent professionals, engaged in activities that can impact our firm's corporate goals.In short, our mission is to educate, improve and promote. Let's try to answer “The Question”. The E.M.A gives you an opportunity to learn more about your profession. Hundreds of people have taken our Training Programs and some have taken them more than once, as a refresher. The data included in our training programs has been developed by some of our most experienced members and revised to keep the training current and up to date. The E.M.A. Training Programs are recognised as “the standard” and are used by a number of firms to train their staff. While this training is offered to all expediters, EMA members enjoy a reduced rate and have the opportunity to contribute to future updates and improvements to the program. At this level, our training belongs to all members. The promotion of expediting aids every one of us. A positive image of what we do and a clear understanding of our function can only improve our position in our firm and make us more valuable. Valuable employees tend to earn more and are less likely to be the first persons to go when there is a downturn. Our Training is off to a fast start in 2011. Both the Basic and Advanced sessions were given in Houston and the Basic course has just been held in Calgary, with the Advanced

thscheduled to follow on March 19 . While we have not yet returned to boom times, the economy is improving and the benefits offered by your Association will become more valuable as the demand for trained expediters grows. Take advantage of the training, the activities offered by our Chapters, the networking opportunities the E.M.A. provides and put them to use. These tools will allow you to hone your skills, increase your confidence and improve your value to your employer. That's what's “In It For You”.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you all enjoyed your holidays and took every opportunity to spend quality time with your family & friends because 2011 is picking up speed! It's already February and there's no rest for the EMA! This year has brought some developments for the Association that I want to share with you. The National Board said “Goodbye & Good Luck” to our Secretary Susan LeJeune. Susan has moved on to pursue other exciting career opportunities and though we are sad to see her go, we want to thank her for her years of service and wish her great success in the future. Thankfully, this important position did not stay vacant for long we were able to welcome Linda Strauss on Board. Linda has embraced the opportunity with both arms and National is excited about her contribution so far! Welcome Linda we're looking forward to working with you! The Chapters continue to thrive with ongoing training sessions and Membership numbers continuing to grow. 2011 will continue to be a year of Planning the Work and Working the Plan for the Board. The long awaited Revision to the Expediting Handbook is now ready to go, the Executive Handbook is under review and while this document does not effect the general Membership directly, it is still a very important Operations document for the Association. We're looking to have that revised and issued early this spring. The new website continues to be an important goal this year. Learning about all the new technology & functionality that is available for the EMA to keep its online presence fresh & new has been very interesting. The Board has also formed a media partnership with an event planning company out of the UK called Hanson Wade. They are hosting a conference in April this year called: Compliance in the Global Supply Chain. It will be held in Houston and all EMA members will be offered a discount to attend. Check out more info on our website and in this issue of the EMAnator! We're also looking forward to sharing details of this year's Workshop/Conference, hosted by the GHEMA Chapter, as they become available. I feel I should mention again that the Editor's role for the EMAnator is still available for any interested Members and with all the communication technology out there, our Editor can be located anywhere in the world! If you are interested, please let us know! So as you can see, 2011 is shaping up to be a very busy year, full of opportunity but also much hard work! I look forward to working with the Board, the Chapters and the Members again for another exciting year! Keep yourself & your families safe!

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Compliance in the Global Supply Chain: The First in the Global Anti-Bribery and Corruption Series Conference: 26th & 27th April 2011, Workshops: 25th and 28th April 2011Venue: Renaissance Houston, Greenway, Houston

EMA and Hanson Wade are pleased to present a 10% discount to attend this meeting, exclusive to EMA Members Dear Colleague, Are you concerned about being the next FCPA victim? “Companies settling FCPA-related charges in 2010 paid a record $1.8 billion in financial penalties to the DOJ and SEC”. FCPA Blog January 3, 2011 As you can see, Washington's determination regarding FCPA enforcement fines is beyond question. And 2011 looks set to be equally worrying for the industry. With the UK Bribery Act starting in April, is getting your compliance strategy in order going to be one of your key New Year's resolutions? Well, you're definitely not alone… As you know, failure to comply with either law could cripple your company. And land you in prison. And with differences, albeit small ones existing between the two Acts, can you be 100% sure your policies will be good enough to protect you?

Introducing

, (Houston, 26th and 27th April), is the first event in the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Series, aimed at the oil and gas, mining, chemical and engineering industries. It is aimed at practitioners who have already created systems to deal with bribery and corruption but who still feel uncertain whether they have done enough. In April 2011, tackles these issues head on by providing realistic and effective solutions. Here's just one example: To ensure you gain clarity on both the US and UK laws, BP's Senior Compliance Attorney Richard Battaglia will draw on his considerable legal experience to explain the key differences, nuances and implications of breaching either law. Plus, he'll delve into the intricacies of adapting your existing FCPA policies to comply with the UK law, to guarantee you leave the event secure in the knowledge that you know exactly how to protect your company from both the FCPA and UK Bribery Act.

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· Develop an effective monitoring system for everyone in your supply chain

rd· Update and manage your 3 party contracts · Discover whether a supplier code of conduct is right for your

company and learn how to create one · Learn how to get your own internal investigative processes

ready for the UK law · Ensure you're export and sanctions policies are up-to-date and

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The programme is packed with top : · Julian Ranzato, Vice President Global Controlling and Business

Support Industrial Projects - DHL Global Forwarding · Jay Martin, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior

Deputy General Counsel - Baker Hughes · Adrian D. Mebane, Director, Ethics & Compliance Group, Office

of Global Compliance Weatherford International Ltd · Keith Hennessee, Vice President - Chief Compliance Officer -

National Oilwell Varco · Jeffery S. Spalding, Assistant General Counsel Halliburton · Richard J. Battaglia, Senior Attorney, Compliance - BP

America Inc · Graham Clarke, Director of Group Security - Centrica · Stephen G. Insch, Senior Director, Global Logistics & Trade

Compliance - Baker Hughes Inc · Jeff Shank, Deputy General Counsel Operations - Baker

Hughes · David L. Reisman, Vice President/General Counsel - Bisso

Marine Co., Inc. · Paul Liebman, Chief Compliance Counsel Dell · James G. Tillen, Member Coordinator, FCPA & International

Anti-Corruption Practice Group - Miller & Chevalier Chartered · Tom Henzler, Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer

McDermott International · Scott Sullivan, Vice President Global Trade and Compliance

Counsel Flowserve Corporation · Susanne Gropp-Stadler, Head of Compliance Legal Siemens

AG · Dan Chapman, Chief Compliance Officer and Counsel - Parker

Drilling · Céline B. Gerson, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

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SANTA'S ELVES VISIT THE HOUSTON FOOD BANKBy Marcella Vaughan, C.E.Greater Houston Expediting Management Association

thIn the United States, the 4 Thursday in November, Thanksgiving, is the “official” kickoff to the holiday season, which is a time of giving. In that spirit, the Greater Houston Expediting

thManagement Association, “GHEMA”, spent the morning of Saturday, December 4 at the Houston Food Bank helping ready boxes for distribution to the needy.Teamed with a bible study group from Texas A&M, a total of 14 GHEMA members and their families worked the assembly line with efficiency, energy and song.While tasked with packing only 20 pallets of boxes loaded with the dry and canned fixings to help fill an empty pantry, GHEMA and Texas A&M went above and beyond and completed 25 pallets. That meant that many more underprivileged Houstonians would not go hungry during the Christmas holidays.From Robert Woodum who built the boxes, ably assisted by Samantha Salinas, to Tony Bringol who tossed cans of cranberry relish into those boxes, each person found themselves armed with canned or boxed goods to fight hunger in the Houston area. Food items consisted of cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, canned meat, spaghetti sauce, dry milk and juice, to name a few.The team packed those boxes merrily, all the while singing and talking. Led by EMA Vice President Jocelyn Kocab, Christmas carols rang out to fill the warehouse with joyful noise, even if the words sometimes escaped the group. It was amazing how many songs Jocelyn knew and the fact that she remembered all the words! Humor had a foothold as well, especially when a member would start a song that wasn't known to some of the people only to hear it trail off into made-up lyrics. This truly helped to keep morale so high that we had to be told to stop work. At the end of the day, GHEMA boxed 5,907 meals for Houston's hungry which meant fewer people spent even one day without food.It was a renewal of the human spirit to spend those hours knowing that someone in need would benefit by our small sacrifice and also extremely rewarding to see so many other people or groups had the same idea and filled the building with helpers that Saturday.

SANTA'S ELVES VISIT THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK

PEOPLEAlthough the economic recovery continues at a snail's pace, we are very pleased that our membership is still slowly growing, and that our training program continues to attract participants. In January, we welcomed two new members, both from the Houston area. They are Reida Lewis, an expeditor at Technip USA, and Jorge Gonzalezrubio, a Senior Quality Professional at KBR. We also enrolled Ron Stiles from Conroe, Texas, an Expediting Specialist with Bechtel. All of them attended the Training classes offered in January, after learning about the EMA and the classes from other members.February, to date, has given us one new member, this time in Calgary. Eva Daxner, who works at Worley Parsons, learned of the Training classes to be given in Calgary from an expeditor friend, and decided to not only attend the classes, but also to join the EMA. A very warm welcome goes out to all four of our new members!

Congratulations go out to our newest Certified Expeditors. They are Lutgardo Lopez, C.E., who is at Jacobs in Calgary, Reida Lewis, C.E., Jorge Gonzalezrubio, C.E., and Marcella Vaughan, C.E., who works at Fisk/MEI in Houston.

Since most of us have reason to contact Professional Development Chairman Ray Brown from time to time, please note his change of e-mail address if you haven't already. You can now reach Ray at

if you need information about training classes, certification, recertification or any other Pro-D [email protected]

EXPEDITING HANDBOOK REV 6 NOW APPROVED

FOR DISTRIBUTION

The EMA Board of Directors has approved the distribution of Revision 6 of our manual, The Expediting Handbook. This revision is the result of a dil igent review by our P r o f e s s i o n a l D e v e l o p m e n t Committee, led by Ray Brown, C.E.M., and is now available to all members in good standing, in either electronic or CD format.

To get your copy, either by e-mail or on CD

sent by regular mai l , please c o n t a c t

E x e c u t i v e A d m i n i s t r a t o r

Patricia Murphy at . Be sure to

indicate the address (either e-mail or postal) to which it should be sent.

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WILD ROSE HAPPENINGSBy Mike Klamer, C.E.M.

Greetings from the frozen North! The weather is cold (really, really cold!), but the activity is heating up. In the coming months there are several large-scale energy projects scheduled to be initiated in Alberta. We expect that the demand for professional, qualified Expeditors will be amplified and believe that our members are in the best position to take advantage of the improving market. Some industry analysts are predicting that 2011/2012 will be even more active than 2008! That was a year when we were begging some of our vendors to take on work and they dictated the pace of projects based on their shop schedules. Expediting was at the center of project activity since our vendors' deliverables were often the critical path items at the center of multi-billion dollar projects. I personally have hope that the 1980s era bumper stickers will make a comeback: “Please God, let there be another Boom. I promise I won't p*** it away this time!” I think most of us who have lived through the boom/bust cycle once or twice (or more) are hoping for a robust economy. However, we are also hoping that sanity prevails and that there is a sustainable level of activity.

In Chapter news … recently, the EMA Wild Rose Chapter asked our members to complete an on-line survey. They were asked a range of questions designed to assist the Wild Rose Board in planning meaningful Chapter events in the future. Members were asked about what kind of Chapter activities they'd like to see, the frequency of those activities, the timing of events and what their recommendations would be to improve the Chapter. Thank you to those who took the time to complete the survey. Your input has already been taken into account as we plan future Chapter events.

On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, the EMA Wild Rose Chapter hosted representatives from Westpower Pumps in Calgary, Alberta. Westpower re-visited their presentation from the 2010 EMA Annual Workshop/Conference entitled “Expediting from a Vendor's Perspective”. The intent of this presentation is to put the Expeditor into the vendor's shoes in order to improve the expediting job performance. When we know what our vendor's primary drivers are, it can help us to be more effective in looking for a win-win outcome. In addition to the presentation by Westpower, Denis Murphy delivered the first module from the EMA continuing education courses, entitled “The Image of Expediting”. We hope to present more continuing education sessions in the future.

ndSometime in March, the Wild Rose Chapter will be holding our 2 (what we hope will become “annual”) “Shop Crawl”. This will entail a shop visit to a local vendor's facility followed by a social event. Details are shown elsewhere in this issue.

thFinally, we are planning to hold the EMA Basic & Advanced Training sessions in Calgary (Basic on February 19 ,

thAdvanced on March 19 ). If you or someone you know are interested in attending these training sessions, please contact Denis Murphy ( ) or Mike Klamer ( )[email protected] [email protected]


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Alan Green, Victor Gonzalez, Curtis Lambrecht and Aimee Searle are among those enjoying the very informative Westpower presentation

EMAnator February 2011This is the first issue of Volume 29. As always, we need your contributions to make this newsletter possible. Cut-off dates for the next issue are as follows:

ISSUE CUT-OFF DATE MAIL ISSUE Vol. 29 No. 2 April 8, 2011 April 15, 2011

Contribute early - help us to keep on schedule and make your newsletter worthwhile.

EMAnator February 2011This is the first issue of Volume 29. As always, we need your contributions to make this newsletter possible. Cut-off dates for the next issue are as follows:

ISSUE CUT-OFF DATE MAIL ISSUE Vol. 29 No. 2 April 8, 2011 April 15, 2011

Contribute early - help us to keep on schedule and make your newsletter worthwhile.


The EMA Wild Rose Chapter invites you to join us in our second annual “Shop Crawl”.

ShopWhen: 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 16, 2011Where: SABRE INSTRUMENT SERVICES LTD.

6702 Fairmount Dr. SE Calgary, ABhttp://www.wix.com/sabretemp/sabre

Keith and Tony from Sabre will give us a guided tour of their facility and review both of their major product lines.

CrawlWhen: 7:00 pm (or thereabouts) Wednesday, March 16, 2011Where: LIMERICKS PUB

7304 MacLeod Trail S

After the Sabre tour please join us for some socializing at Limericks. This is not subsidized by the Chapter so please be aware that you are responsible for your own food and drinks. Also, if you do plan to drink please don't drive. We DO NOT have taxi chits available.

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The EMA Wild Rose Chapter invites you to join us in our second annual “Shop Crawl”.

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EXPERT TIPS FOR GETTING AHEAD

Moving up, getting ahead, climbing the ladder, making positive changes it all sounds good, but sometimes it seems only a chosen few ever actually make it happen. Here, from a successful author and executive search consultant, are a few tips for career success:

á Take responsibility for your own development especially important in the current business environment, where many companies have cut back their training budgets.

á Set a clear goal for yourself it's hard to have a career strategy if you don't have an idea where you want to go.

á Think in terms of maximizing your contribution to your employer how does the work you do support your company's goals?

á Be aware of what your employer and the client want and need and dedicate yourself to supplying it.

á Make a point of working well with others. Working with and through others is requisite to creating and producing results.

á Commit to improving your communication skills whether listening, presenting, persuading, or understanding messages.

á Expand your experience. Talk to your boss about opportunities on projects or assignments outside your everyday role.

á Reach out to a mentor.á Get involved in groups and professional associations to broaden your network. Taking a

leadership role will polish your expertise and enhance your resume.


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Action is the foundational key to success. Action is the foundational key to success. - Pablo Picasso- Pablo Picasso

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THE ELUSIVE HEALTH BALANCE… AND HOW TO CATCH IT!

When I think of balance, I think of the scales of justice. Too much may be weighed on one side and then there's a desire to put something on the other scale to even things off. Life is like that. You do too much at home, at work, and then feel out of balance. Some of you may feel resentful or just plain tired, and you want to place something on the side of the scale marked “Time For Me”. Being aware that you're at that point is important so that work days don't become sick days.There's something exciting and addictive about being busy, feeling productive. There's a “rush” that comes with working under the wire, dashing from place to place, appointments packed one against another, or sitting at a computer until midnight. The next morning you may very likely start the whole process over again.Workaholism is a major problem of our society. It is responsible for the breakup of marriages and causes physical and mental problems. The casualties are your health, your family, your friendships and your enjoyment of life. Yet, while many of you instinctively know this….There are ways to help you change negative patterns. You can still get your work done at the office and at home and yet include your own name on your “to do” list. While being super-organized is important in order to achieve time for you, the following tips will enable you to cope with all your tasks and still feel energized, motivated and ready for challenges.

Focusing on your breathing stops your mind from racing and brings calmness. For about a minute, notice the air coming into your lungs and going out. Give yourself permission to think of nothing else except your breathing. If you like, you can take a slightly deeper and slower breath to enhance the exercise. Repeat a few times a day. Deep breathing practiced daily can reduce stress, insomnia, headaches and cholesterol.

One simple way to get off the merry-go-round is to slow down, or practice mindfulness. It's the opposite of mindlessness, when we go about our daily life with our mind always residing in the future or the past, but seldom in the present. Focussing on the present moment helps to slow your pace. As a result, you may notice a feeling of being in control and an enhanced enjoyment of life.Allow little things to have an impact on you. When you're driving home, can you notice a spectacular sunset and then allow its beauty to somehow reach you? If you see a laughing child or a brightly painted room, do you just glaze over? Try to really see it and feel it. Savour the delicious taste of an apple or a piece of chocolate. These small acts can make your days of your life special in some way.I challenge you to try these simple techniques each day deep breathing, slowing down, and focussing more on the moments.Rosalie Moscoe was a presenter at our annual Workshop/Conference in Toronto in 2001 and since then has kept in touch, sending us articles from her newsletter “Health in Harmony”.

Focus on Your Breathing

Slow Down; Practice Mindfulness

THE ELUSIVE HEALTH BALANCE… AND HOW TO CATCH IT!


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