Bill Steinke MBA, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, QI, C.P.M., A.P.P., CAMH, CABM received his Bachelors' degree, with membership in the
honorary society (Upsilon Chapter Phi Sigma Society), from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He studied at the graduate level at The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA), with distinction, from Benedictine University (Lisle, Illinois).

He has worn many hats during his working career, most recently serving as Logistics Manager with, or having had responsibility for Forecasting, Demand, Distribution and Sales and Operations Planning, Warehouse and domestic and International Transportation/Logistics Operations management for Nufarm Americas, Inc., a global agrichemical company with North American headquarters located in Burr Ridge, Illinois. He was responsible for all rail surface transportation operations and logistics as part of the BP Petrochemicals North American Commercial Operations (NACO) team in Naperville, Illinois. NACO supported numerous business units within the organization. Prior to that and for over 19 years, he served TTX Company in a wide variety of upper management positions. He has worked in production, quality assurance, sales, marketing, customer service, business planning, procurement, material management including operations, planning and control; distribution, transportation, supply chain management, fleet management, logistics, distribution analysis and technical support. Prior to TTX, Bill was an operations manager at Norfolk Southern Railway (when it was the Norfolk & Western Railroad), worked in manufacturing at Whirlpool Corporation, sales and marketing at Consolidated Chemical Corporation and in production at Center Manufacturing.

He is an APICS (The Association for Operations Management) CPIM/CIRM/CSCP International Qualified Instructor who teaches Fundamentals along with all certification review courses. In addition to earning the Certified Fellow Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM), Certified Integrated Resource Management (CIRM), Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and Qualified Instructor (QI) designations from APICS, he is also a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) and an Accredited Purchasing Practitioner (A.P.P.) through the ISM/NAPM (Institute for Supply Management/National Association of Purchasing Management). He also holds a Certified Associate Material Handling certification by way of the Material Handling and Management Society (MHMS) and a Certified Associate in Business Management (CABM) with the Association of Professionals in Business Management.
Bill sits or has sat on several college level (Harper College and College of DuPage) transportation curriculum advisory boards and has served the city of Chicago as a member of Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI) transportation advisory forum. He serves as an adjunct professor teaching CPIM and CSCP modules in the Management Development Center at DePaul University, and teaches CPIM and C.P.M. certification review courses at Joliet Junior College. Bill has taught Operations Management related courses to over two dozen corporate organizations in the United States and Canada. He not only serves APICS and his local Chicago Chapter as an instructor, but has also served as the Chapter's President and Vice President Public Education. He has served on the ISM Chicago Affiliate Materials Management Committee in addition to having served as a member of the Affiliate's Chemicals Committee and Logistics and Supply Chain Management Committee. Bill is also a qualified (Philip B. Crosby Associates) continuous improvement and total quality management instructor.
In his spare time, he writes and reviews instructional course materials, an avid reader, he was part of a committee that reviews potential resource items for APICS (Association) prior to their becoming approved educational materials and a part of the international APICS Educational Materials Catalog.

Bill, his wife and two of his three children live in Naperville while his third child is living in Chicago, Illinois.


E-mail Bill