David Burton Supply Chain Analysis
David J. Burton, AICP, is a native of Columbia, SC. and is the Founder and CEO of the Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA) and the DMSCA Supplier Development Foundation. Burton obtained his B.S. from the Morgan State College and a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania in City Planning and Regional Science. Burton is a former Adjunct Professor in Planning at Howard University and a decorated Vietnam Veteran. Burton is active in Small Business Advocacy and Educational Civil Rights and is the lead plaintiff in The Coalition v. State of Maryland, an advanced civil rights case to restore parity and equity to Maryland Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and was the 2013 recipient of the Lawyers Committee for
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Civil Rights Under Law, Frank E. Parker Client of the Year Award for Courage and Perseverance. Burton has also written numerous articles on supply chain related supplier and economic development issues.
Leading to the formation of DMSCA were his 2001 white papers, "The Strategic Intervention of Minority Small Manufacturing Enterprises in the Manufacturing Supply Chain and The Convergence of Strategic Sourcing with Supplier Diversity," written while consulting with the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SCMEP) of the U.S.
Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His efforts lead to the funding of a pilot projects in South Carolina and a national project to demonstrate his methodologies and systems for increasing diverse manufacturing and logistics supplier capabilities and capacities in strategically sourced Supply Chains. Work with NIST lead to interest by the U.S. Navy and Army in using his model as a template in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Mentor-Protege Program. Further interest in the program lead to the support of Procter & Gamble in catalyzing the formation of a national non-profit organization called the National Minority Manufacturing Institute (NMMI) whose cofounders included Navistar, Cummins, McCormick and Grainger. NMMI was later reorganized as the Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA) which leverages its Corporate Mentoring Program (CMP) as a platform for Supplier Supply Chain Excellence training and development and its CMP Supplier Supply Chain Performance Maturity Certification for Supplier attainment. Other corporations supporting DMSCA subsequent to its founding include
Caterpillar, Delphi, Cargill, Merck, Starbucks, Medtronic, Boeing, PepsiCo, and others. DMSCA is Sponsoring Corporate Member of the APICS/Supply Chain Council and a member of the Digital Manufacturing and Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII).
Prior to DMSCA's formation Burton was also Vice President of Planning and Development for the Harbison Development Corporation (CDC), a new town developer in Columbia, South Carolina; National Sales Manager for the former Control Data Corporation (CDC), developer of small business incubators throughout the U.S.; a National Project Director for City Venture Corporation, a national initiative that leveraged CDC small business incubator development to spearhead inner city revitalization and job creation. Burton was also President of Burton and Associates, a planning and economic development consulting company. A Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Burton resides in Gaithersburg, MD.
Civil Rights Under Law, Frank E. Parker Client of the Year Award for Courage and Perseverance. Burton has also written numerous articles on supply chain related supplier and economic development issues.
Leading to the formation of DMSCA were his 2001 white papers, "The Strategic Intervention of Minority Small Manufacturing Enterprises in the Manufacturing Supply Chain and The Convergence of Strategic Sourcing with Supplier Diversity," written while consulting with the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (SCMEP) of the U.S.
Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His efforts lead to the funding of a pilot projects in South Carolina and a national project to demonstrate his methodologies and systems for increasing diverse manufacturing and logistics supplier capabilities and capacities in strategically sourced Supply Chains. Work with NIST lead to interest by the U.S. Navy and Army in using his model as a template in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Mentor-Protege Program. Further interest in the program lead to the support of Procter & Gamble in catalyzing the formation of a national non-profit organization called the National Minority Manufacturing Institute (NMMI) whose cofounders included Navistar, Cummins, McCormick and Grainger. NMMI was later reorganized as the Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA) which leverages its Corporate Mentoring Program (CMP) as a platform for Supplier Supply Chain Excellence training and development and its CMP Supplier Supply Chain Performance Maturity Certification for Supplier attainment. Other corporations supporting DMSCA subsequent to its founding include
Caterpillar, Delphi, Cargill, Merck, Starbucks, Medtronic, Boeing, PepsiCo, and others. DMSCA is Sponsoring Corporate Member of the APICS/Supply Chain Council and a member of the Digital Manufacturing and Design and Innovation Institute (DMDII).
Prior to DMSCA's formation Burton was also Vice President of Planning and Development for the Harbison Development Corporation (CDC), a new town developer in Columbia, South Carolina; National Sales Manager for the former Control Data Corporation (CDC), developer of small business incubators throughout the U.S.; a National Project Director for City Venture Corporation, a national initiative that leveraged CDC small business incubator development to spearhead inner city revitalization and job creation. Burton was also President of Burton and Associates, a planning and economic development consulting company. A Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Burton resides in Gaithersburg, MD.