Macy's Executive to Discuss Supply Chain Management at Smeal

Jeff Pilof, group vice president of transportation for Macy's, is scheduled to deliver this year's Spisak Lecture in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (March 28, 2012) -- Jeff Pilof, group vice president of transportation for Macy's, is scheduled to deliver this year's Spisak Lecture in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business.

His talk, entitled "Making Magic at Macy's: A Supply Chain View," is set for 4 p.m. on April 3 in room 126 of Smeal's Business Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Pilof, a graduate of Smeal with bachelor's and master's degrees in business logistics, has more than 20 years of experience in logistics planning, development, and execution capacities. At Macy's, he is responsible for supply chain collaboration, transportation, and advanced receiving operations. The company's transportation group manages the flow of merchandise and related information from vendors to stores and the ultimate customer in support of traditional store and direct to consumer sales channels.

Prior to joining Macy’s in 2009, Pilof was the co-founder and president of Logicity SCS Corp., a supply chain solutions company for corporations and freight forwarding entities. He also held held various positions in supply chain management at Abercrombie & Fitch, PPG Industries, Nabisco, and Merck & Co.

The Spisak Lectureship was founded in 1990 through a gift from the Alex and Ann Spisak family of State College. The fund supports lectures by outstanding professionals working in logistics and supply chain management.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Victoria Fryer in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or mediarelations@smeal.psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.