Second annual Top CPOs audiocast series
By Purchasing Staff -- Purchasing, 7/5/2007 9:09:00 AM
Audiocast instructions:
Click on the AUDIOCAST icon to listen to the interview on your computer or RIGHT CLICK on the icon, choose "Save tagret as" to download the audiocast as an MP3 file to your desktop or multimedia device.
Rick Jacobs, vice president, supply chain management at Eaton Corp., provides the details of Eaton’s supply chain education program designed to provide a baseline education level for individuals working in supply chain management.
Greg Shoemaker, vice president of procurement and procurement services at Hewlett-Packard, says for buyers today “Negotiation skills are very important, but so are people skills and being able to manage a very diverse team. You have to have both technical and business savvy.”
Gregg Brandyberry, vice president of global procurement systems and operations at GlaxoSmithKline, says trying to do more with less becomes more challenging for procurement organizations as global markets change. “Savings and value get more difficult to deliver each year.”
Brad Holcomb, senior vice president and chief procurement officer at Dean Foods Co.’s Dairy Group, says his biggest challenge is, “Educating our new procurement team on the dairy business and our corporate and field colleagues on how and why we do what we do.”
Anthony Santiago, vice president, global sourcing and supplier management at Bristol-Myers Squibb, discusses reducing sourcing and cycle time and purchasing’s expanding role in consumption and specification management.
Scott Searls, senior vice president of the Procurement and Logistics Group at Alltel Wireless, says if purchasing gets into “future cost management, then we are the people who can lead and drive the business and create change.”
Kurt Doelling, vice president supplier management and operations strategy at Sun Microsystems, explains that Sun’s “cost initiatives are focused on cost targeting in the design stage as opposed to trying to take cost out over the product’s lifecycle.”
Rick Hughes, vice president of global purchases at Proctor & Gamble, talks about the challenges he’s faced in managing the integration of Gillette’s purchasing operations into P&G.
Brent Shinall, vice president, supply chain management, at Helix Energy Solutions, relates his experience in creating a global supply chain management operation from scratch: first, he’s hiring supply management professionals and designing internal processes and next, he’s defining the operation’s technology path.
Click here to go to last year's Top CPOs Audiocast series.
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