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Gary Cokins
Product Marketing Manager, SAS® Strategic Performance Management
SAS
Gary Cokins is a strategist for SAS, the world's market leader in data management,
business intelligence and analytical software. He is an internationally recognized expert,
speaker and author on advanced cost management and performance improvement
systems. Cokins received his Bachelor of Science degree in industrial
engineering/operations research from Cornell University in 1971 and a Master of
Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management
in 1974.
Cokins began his career as a Financial Controller and Operations Manager for FMC
Corporation, and he has been a Management Consultant with Deloitte & Touche, KPMG
Peat Marwick, and Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
Cokins has served on activity-based information committees with several organizations,
including CAM-I, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the American
Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the American Society for Quality
(ASQ), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Purchasing
Management Association of Canada.
In addition, Cokins has written five books: An ABC Manager's Primer; Activity-Based
Cost Management: Making It Work; Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive's
Guide; Activity-Based Cost Management in Government; and his newest, Performance
Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap).
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