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Staff -- Purchasing, 5/5/2005 2:00:00 AM
Garry S. Berryman has been named the chief procurement officer at Sara Lee Corp. In this new role, Berryman will be responsible for the company's global procurement operations, reporting to L.M. (Theo) de Kool, executive vice president and chief financial and administrative officer. Berryman joins Sara Lee from Applied Materials, where he served as vice president of global materials and supply chain management. Prior to that, he was at Harley-Davidson for eight years as vice president of materials management and product cost. Berryman is also a member of PURCHASING magazine's editorial advisory board.
Applied Materials recently appointed Chris Belden as group vice president and general manager of global operations including all volume manufacturing and materials sourcing. Belden most recently was senior vice president of manufacturing for Freescale Semiconductor.
The Dow Chemical Company has named George Biltz as its new global vice president of purchasing. Biltz now heads overall purchasing operations at Dow, which includes negotiating prices for raw materials and services, fostering positive supplier relationships and implementing competitive procurement contracts. Biltz is charged with creating value for Dow by furthering the purchasing department's vision; to deliver substantial, sustainable, competitive advantage to Dow's businesses and functions. Biltz also retains his current leadership responsibilities as Dow's global business vice president for ventures and new business growth. In his 25 years with Dow, Biltz served the company as a production engineer, a production supervisor, a field sales representative, product marketing manager for Dow's plastic-lined pipe business, global business director for the company's polyglycols business, and the business vice president of custom and fine chemicals.
United Technologies appointed Kent Brittan chairman of United Technologies International Operations. Succeeding him as vice president, operations under a new structure combining UTC's supply management, quality and manufacturing functions will be Jothi Purushotaman, who currently serves as senior vice president of finance for UTC's Pratt & Whitney division. Brittan has served as UTC vice president of supply management since 1998 after a year as vice president of purchasing. "He has led our supply management functions with extraordinary energy, initiatives and results since 1997," CEO George David said. "Cumulative savings amply exceed a billions dollars annually."
Bed retailer Select Comfort recently named Kathryn Roedel to the position of senior vice president for its global supply chain. Roedel will replace Greg Kliner, senior vice president of operations, who will retire from Select Comfort. Roedel joins Select Comfort after a 22-year career with industrial giant General Electric, where she most recently served as general manager, global supply chain strategy for GE Healthcare Technologies. In this capacity, Roedel led the development of a three-year supply chain strategy for all operations across three continents: Asia, Europe and the Americas. Prior to that, Roedel was general manager for global quality and Six Sigma for GE Healthcare Technologies.
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