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By expanding our Supply Chain Executive Insight e-newsletter from monthly to weekly, we hope to help you stay better informed.

Toby Gooley
By Toby GooleyJan 02, 2018
Toby Gooley
Contributing Editor Toby Gooley is a freelance writer and editor specializing in supply chain, logistics, material handling, and international trade. She previously was Editor at CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly. and Senior Editor of SCQ's sister publication, DC VELOCITY. Prior to joining AGiLE Business Media in 2007, she spent 20 years at Logistics Management magazine as Managing Editor and Senior Editor covering international trade and transportation. Prior to that she was an export traffic manager for 10 years. She holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University.
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Those of you who are used to receiving our Supply Chain Executive Insight e-newsletter may be surprised to receive it this week. The following thought may have run through your head: "Wait ... didn't I just get this newsletter last week?"

The answer to that question is "sort of." We did indeed transmit an e-newsletter on December 28. And, although it looks somewhat different, this is Supply Chain Executive Insight. But there's a significant difference between this edition and the newsletter we've been producing for nearly a decade: Supply Chain Executive Insight is now a weekly, rather than a monthly, publication.

By increasing the frequency we will be able to bring you more news and expert-contributed articles—including all of the digital-only content we publish on our website, www.supplychainquarterly.com. In this we are following the lead of our sister publication, DC Velocity, which will contribute news from its own Velocity Weekly newsletter from time to time. We'll also feature news from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in a weekly "CSCMP Notebook" section. Additionally, Executive Insight's new format includes opportunities for advertisers and sponsors to share their white papers, case studies, and other useful information resources with the newsletter's 28,000-plus subscribers.

We do our best to provide supply chain professionals with information that is both interesting and useful. Ultimately, by expanding our Supply Chain Executive Insight e-newsletter from monthly to weekly, we hope to help you stay better informed.

Note: You can sign up for Executive Insight and other Supply Chain Quarterly newsletters here.

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