Celeste Catano of Kewill receives award at Global SCM Leaders on Demand Conference

Celeste Catano, Domain Expert for US Customs at Kewill, a leading provider of innovative software for supply chain execution, has been honored with an award at the prestigious Global SCM Leaders on Demand Conference. Catano was handed the accolade for 'Customs Brokerage Technology Leadership' at the conference, held in Atlanta, GA on May 6-8.

News Facts:

  • Celeste Catano is a domain expert in US customs compliance. She has over 35 years' experience of understanding and interpreting regulatory developments and utilizing her knowledge in shaping the development of Kewill's range of customs software solutions.
  • She has been elected Co-Chair of the Transition Committee of the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)'s Trade Support Network, a forum for the discussion of significant modernization efforts within the trade community, since 2001.
  • Catano holds an MBA in Information Systems from Southern New Hampshire University.
  • Kewill offers a range of customs solutions that span the needs of the largest and most demanding brokers, along with smaller and mid-size brokers and importers to the US, including the Kewill CustomsXchange multi-country customs platform.
  • Global SCM Leaders on Demand is a collaborative community of supply chain professionals, which held its inaugural conference in Atlanta, GA.

Supporting Quotes:

  • "Kewill's domain experts play a major role in our ongoing success through bringing deep industry experience and process knowledge to our product direction. They help realize significant benefits for our customers," said Evan Puzey, Chief Marketing Officer at Kewill. "Celeste knows US customs regulations inside out, and provides a wealth of invaluable input to ensuring our customs solutions are at the leading edge of delivering compliance within the regulatory landscape."

About Global SCM Leaders on Demand

Our group is the leading SCM collaborative community. During our first 20 days as a Linkedin group, 200 C-level & EVP's and another 1000 Senior Executives joined. We have invited over 300,000 top global supply chain professionals directly to our Linkedin forum, which represents over 125,000 global companies, and held our inaugural conference in Atlanta, GA on May 6-8 2013.

Our objective is to resolve real time issues by having participants drive standards for each industry vertical in an open forum. We encourage members to share success stories or failures where you wished you had tools

It is our objective for the group members to resolve issues such as collaboration, visibility, procurement, emergency resource management, manufacturing, distribution, sourcing, distribution, lack of data, clinical trials, optimization, forecasting, inventory management increasing turnover, CRM, nonprofit response issues, healthcare serialization, oil rig support, counter op support for theft and drug cartels, customs, denied party, WMS, TMS, CFR, CPAT but not limited to.

Most importantly we focus on increasing our members' effectiveness to execute globally, network peers, share insights, and facilitate business transactions.



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