Julie is an engaging speaker who quickly discovers the audiences' level of understanding and presents the content for their benefit.

Chip Fuhrmann

Market Segment Vice President

Healthcard & Financial Markets

Banta Corporation

Julie, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to bring to us your message “Grown & Made in the USA .” We are now more informed about agriculture and the vital impact it has on our lives and the economy.

You can be assured I will recommend you and your message to my friends and associates.

Arnold E. Fiedler

Prudential

On behalf of the Arizona Farm Bureau Women’s Committee, I would like to personally than you for being a guest speaker at our third annual WIAG conference. We learned so much from your Grown and Made in the USA presentation. I’m going to alert others to your speaking. You are truly engaging!  

Carmen Auza

Arizona Farm Bureau

Women in Ag

The Conference Board and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for your vital contribution to the success of the 2000 Purchasing Conference. Due to the presentations offered by you and other prominent speakers, we were able to attract senior purchasing executives from leading organizations to this important event.

We hope that your enjoyed your role in the program and your discussions with other participants. We look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues back at next year’s Purchasing Conference on November 8-9, 2001 and would be grateful for any suggestions you might have for topics and/or speakers for this program.

Thank you again for sharing your insights and experiences so generously with other purchasing executives.  

Eberhard E. Scheuing, Ph.D., C.P.M.

Conference Program Director, and

NAPM Professor of Purchasing and Supply Leadership

St. John’s University

New York

On behalf of the entire staff and board of ECCMA, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for presenting during the 2nd Annual ECCMA General Membership conference.

We received a flood of positive comments regarding the professionalism, expertise and wealth of experience conveyed by all the speakers. Your willingness to share your valuable insight with attendees throughout both days of the conference was a tremendous asset to the success of the event.

Yvette Thomas

Executive Director

Electronic Commerce Code Management Association

Testimonials from My Magazine Days

Julie:

“While I really hated for you to leave the staff of Purchasing Today, I

now realize why you were stolen away.  The iSource magazine is

absolutely powerful !!!!  Your talents are really showing through !!!

The iSource web site has been sent through the ranks of our company and

is now in the hands of our VP of Supply Management in Canada as well as

the IT Department.

“Look forward to the magazine each month - (and it just keeps getting

better with each issue)!  Thanks.”  

Dianna Wentz, Contract Manager

PriceWaterHouse Coopers/

Nortel Networks Supply Management

Julie,

I really enjoyed your opening statements for this issue [December 2002/January 2003].  As a new head of mentoring for a small local women's group (Women in Logistics) I felt that this really said what our mentoring program is all about.  I'm "asking" for your permission to copy this article and share it with our membership as we roll out the mentoring program. [Permission requested April 9, 2003.]  

Emily G. Rodriguez

VP, Program Management

eBoomerang, Inc.

I read and thoroughly enjoyed your sourcing article today in the Feb/March 2003 issue of iSource Business Magazine. We had virtually the same discussion yesterday at our annual BOD meeting as I was showing our Board where our applications fit into the supply and demand chain world as depicted in your version 5.0 Map. Of course, I wish I had read your article a day earlier so I could have had some expert opinion and not just my “spin” on the issue of “functional completeness.” Still, we captured the essence of your article during our discussions.

Thomas J. Westbrook

President/CEO

World Wide Wood Network, Ltd.

Julie:

Great write up in your iOpener; very refreshing and honest. I too am a huge mentoring and "give something back" proponent.  For example, I sit on the Business School Integrated Supply Management Executive Council for Western Michigan University (my alma mater); where we help develop curriculum, provide internships, work with students, and more. I am also involved in various mentoring activities.

Hope all is well with you and the magazine. Note: I was very surprised I was nominated and accepted again for the "50 Pros to Know.”  

Christopher J. Flum, C.P.M.

Vice President, Supply Management

Body/Chassis Sectors

ThyssenKrupp Budd Company

Julie,

“Great job today on the iSource Business/PeopleSoft Web seminar [May 16, 2002]. I definitely want a copy of the presentations. I think AMR Research is right ― we're moving toward a few fully integrated, full service (all strategic sourcing components) applications, probably housed within the ERP platforms like PeopleSoft, Baan, SAP, etc., unless technology advances can make seamless integration a reality.”

Keith Baxter, C.P.M.

“I wanted to thank you for the excellent coverage you and your magazine provide to supply chain professionals like myself. I subscribe to countless magazines and newsletters focused on the supply chain and eCommerce, but  iSource Business is the only one I make sure to read every month in its entirety.  

Ed Goetting

Manager

Gibson & Associates, Inc.

“I really do enjoy reading your excellent publication each month.”

Jay U. Sterling, Ph.D., CPA
Sr. Research Scholar, Center for Business & Economic Research (CBER)
Associate Director, University Transportation Center for AL (UTCA)
University of Alabama
Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration

“I read the February/March [2002] issue.  In particular, the article that focused on the "Global Supply Chain" with specific attention to payments.  I found the article to be very insightful.  I especially liked the example on Sager Electronics.”  

Jonathan Fichman

Vice President of Strategic Alliance Development

Actrade Financial Technologies

Julie:

“Would you have any objections to Tom Crimi and I using the Global Enabled Supply Chain Map from your February/March 2002 issue in the presentation of our workshop on Building Global Supply Chains at the ISM conference in San Francisco next month [May 5 – 8, 2002]? We would list the seven areas from the chart on one of our slides (with attribution to iSource Business) and show the pull-out from the magazine, referring the participants to the magazine for more detail if they want it.  

Ralph G. Kauffman, Ph.D., C.P.M.

ISM Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, Chair

“Ms. Murphree, just wanted to thank you for leading the cyber-seminar

today [March 7, 2002].  I thought you were able to ensure maximum contribution and

output from the speakers.  The Q&A was tremendously helpful for me.

“If there is one downer, it was perhaps that the time was too short (but that's a good problem to have!).”

Thanks again.  

Roy C. Rosas

President

Reputation Technologies, Inc.

“I want to thank you for the recent article about Motion Industries that was in the January 2002 issue of iSource Business. It was very pleasing to see the article in such a place in a very credible publication. I have received many positive comments about the article and your publication has made all of us here at Motion Industries very proud.”

William J. Stevens

President & CEO

Motion Industries, Inc.

Hello Julie:

“A voice from the past.  It has been a long time since I have seen you. Congratulations on an excellent job with iSource.  I have enjoyed reading it and am confident that it is making a nice contribution to the profession.

Larry R. Smeltzer
Professor, Supply Chain Management
  Arizona State University
 

“I wanted to thank you for the excellent coverage you have provided for supply chain and purchasing professionals such as myself. In the recent issue of iSource Business you listed the “Pros to Know” for 2002 [February/March 2002 issue]. The list is very comprehensive and I have had the pleasure of meeting or knowing many of the individuals.”

Jon Yarusso

Manager

Gibson & Associates, Inc.

“My name is Sean Crowe and I work for a Supply Chain/ Logistics company called Tronicus.  We enjoyed Julie Murphree’s article “Global Enabled Supply Chain Series: Logistics” in the January 2002 issue.  The article is almost a word-for-word description of our role in the supply chain industry.   

Sean Crowe

Tronicus Inc.

“I am passing your magazine along to others and suggesting that they subscribe.  You have the ability to prepare very straightforward and useful articles in a complex and occasionally self-important world.  Good work!  Hope all is well with you.  I note that Jerry Baker is on your advisory board.  Please give him a "hello" for me when you next speak with him.”

Lowell Hoffman

Sr., Purchasing consultant

“The July 2001 issue of iSource Business looks and reads great. It even has two global-type articles in which I was chagrined not to find anything to dispute. The third-party verification article is great, that’s been the missing link on global strategic e-commerce.”

 Dick Locke

President

Global Procurement Group

“I recently read “New ROI for a New Economy” in the June 2001 issue of iSource Business. I congratulate your editorial staff for including this topic, which confirms the daily feedback we receive from our clients during software implementations.”

 J.C. Cordoba

Managing Director

Odellion Research

“Your publication has certainly carved out a niche that appears to be important to a number of different audiences. Keep up the fantastic work.”

Alvin Williams, PhD

University of Southern Mississippi

“Fabulous job – Great articles, fresh format, neat material. Very authoritative, which is needed right now. It seems that you are in a great place to move supply chain management forward, into the right readers, and nobody else is occupying this spot.”

Patricia Moody, CMC

Patricia Moody, Inc.

“I’m not sure how I ended up receiving your premier iSource edition, but it could not have been more timely. As the new Director of Strategic Sourcing for Northern Pipeline Construction Co., in a position that did not exist four months ago, a great deal of my focus is, and will continue to be e-business and strategic implementation of such. Your first edition offered some excellent fodder to chew on as we try to understand the efficiencies we believe e-business may provide.”

Tom Kramer

Director of Strategic Sourcing,

NPL