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Staff -- Purchasing, 5/6/2004
- Smiths Aerospace has named Michael Katzorke vice president of supply chain management. In this role, Katzorke is responsible for managing "a world class" network of suppliers. He reports to John Ferrie, group managing director, Smiths Aerospace. Previously, Katzorke was senior vice president, supply chain management, at Cessna Aircraft Company, recipient of PURCHASING magazine's Medal of Professional Excellence for 2003. He's held senior supply chain management positions with Allied Signal, Honeywell and Motorola. Headquartered in London, Smiths Aerospace is a transatlantic aerospace equipment company with $1.6 billion annual revenues in North America and Europe. Katzorke is based in the U.S.
- Greer Steel has appointed Don Fleeher to vice president of purchasing. Fleeher has 34 years experience in the steel industry including 20 years in aerospace metals and hi-temperature alloys and 14 years in carbon steel.
Ben Cook, a materials manager at Draeger Safety, was recently named the company's Planner of the Year by forecasting the type and quantity of product by part number that will be sold in the next year most accurately. Draeger's German parent company sponsors the competition to improve production figures.
- Building materials giant Lafarge North America recently announced that under its new succession plan, Eric C. Olsen, president of Lafarge North America's northeast cement region and senior vice president of purchasing, will succeed Larry Waisanen as executive vice president and chief financial officer on January 1, 2005.
- Michigan State University announced it has created the $2 million Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Chair in Purchasing Supply Management at its Eli Broad College of Business, named in honor of former MSU professor John H. Hoagland, professor emeritus who taught from 1952 until 1990 and 1963 MSU alumni Richard J. Metzler, who worked to raise money for the chair. The new endowment is designed to attract an outstanding faculty member to continue the Broad School's internationally recognized education and research leadership in important areas of purchasing and supply management. The school hopes to appoint the first Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Chair in Purchasing Supply Management by January 2005
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