-- Jean-Jacques Beaussart, CPO, National City
-- Farley Blackman, Vice President - Sustainable Cost Management, BP plc
-- Ron Carcamo, CPO, Yahoo!
-- Peter Connelly, CPO, Leggett & Platt
-- Olivier Dumas, SVP & CPO, EADS Defense and Security
-- Kirk Eberhart, Director of Purchasing, TMK-IPSCO
-- Linda Fusinati, Sr. Category Manager, Chevron
-- Geraint John, Editor-in-Chief, CPO Agenda
-- General William "Gus" Pagonis, Retired US Army General, Business
Leadership Author, Lecturer, and World Renowned Supply Chain Expert
-- Mitch Plaat, CPO, Con-way
-- Jim Polak, Director, Purchasing PPG Industries
-- Scott Singer, Global Head of Procurement (CPO), Rio Tinto
-- Ken Syme, CPO, Xerox
-- Greg Tennyson, CPO, Salesforce.com
-- Russell Toney, General Manager, Global Sourcing, General Electric Co,
Energy Services
A comprehensive look at the complete response base from the on site
research will be reviewed on Thursday, December 11, 2008, at the "Voice of
the CPO" webinar: research findings from the 2008 CPO Summit. To register
for this free Webinar, please visit:
https://e-meetings.verizonbusiness.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?Conference_ID=1871674&pas
scode=9776034
CONFERENCE NUMBER: 1871674 PASSCODE: 9776034
One participant had this to say about this year's conference: "This was my
first time attending the CPO Summit. The speakers were very interesting and
the content appropriate to our current business & financial environment.
The perspectives that we heard were extremely diverse and unique. I was
really pleased with the conference." - Tom Cichon, Assistant Vice
President, Senior Director - Strategic Sourcing, Cigna.
2008 Aberdeen Achievement Awards
During the proceedings, Aberdeen presented five industry achievement awards
for excellence in global supply management. The winners were drawn from a
research pool of thousands of enterprises who participated in Aberdeen's
Global Supply Management research efforts over the past twelve months. The
winners are:
(1) JC Penney -- Innovation in Technology Award Winner -- granted to the
enterprise that has maximized leveraged technology solutions to
solve pressing business issues to positively impact company
performance. The acknowledgement for the award goes to Bruce
Kilkowski, Vice President of Strategic Sourcing.
(2) Verizon Service Corporation -- Process Excellence Award Winner --
granted to the enterprise that has demonstrated process ingenuity,
agility, flexibility and scalability to address evolving business
requirements. Jim Gowen, Executive Director of Supply Chain
Services, came up to retrieve the award for his organization and had
this to say about the recognition: "Transformation has been our
organization's primary objective over the past three years -- with a
focus on leveraging our economies of scale to reduce operating
costs, driving speed to market to serve our customers more
efficiently and effectively, and overall enabling Verizon to be more
competitive to drive greater shareholder value. This award is a
great honor in that it verifies we have been doing the right things
and that our team is delivering best-in-class results. We are very
proud of this recognition."
(3) Air Transat -- Business Evolution Award Winner -- granted to the
enterprise that has demonstrated the ability to manage the flow of
information across internal and external functional practices to
achieve demonstrable business growth. Jean Cloutier, Sr. Director of
Procurement graciously accepted the award on behalf of his
colleagues at Air Transat.
(4) Con-way -- Executive Stewardship Award Winner -- granted to the
enterprise that has overcome tremendous obstacles and achieved new
performance heights as a result of direct involvement and leadership
from exceptional executive management. Mitch Plaat, Vice President
of Procurement accepted the award on behalf of Con-way.
(5) Cisco -- Performance Excellence Award Winner -- granted to the
enterprise that has harnessed the performance impacts of value chain
activities and mastered methodologies for financial, operational,
and customer-centric performance excellence. The acknowledgement for
the award goes to Lesley Gath, Vice President of Procurement
"Aberdeen is pleased to recognize the 2008 winners for their outstanding
efforts and extraordinary results in achieving Best-in-Class performance,"
said Andrew Bartolini, Vice President, Global Supply Management research,
Aberdeen.
Global Supply Management Research Looks Ahead to 2009
Aberdeen's industry-leading Global Supply Management practice focuses its
research on the strategies, processes, and technologies that enable
sourcing, procurement, finance, and supply management organizations achieve
best-in-class performance. Research coverage includes: strategic sourcing,
contact lifecycle management, procurement, e-payables, commercial cards and
complex category management (including contract labor, travel &
entertainment, print, and real estate and facilities). To view Aberdeen's
complimentary GSM research Library, please visit
http://research.aberdeen.com/index.php/Global-Supply-Management/
Summit Sponsors
Aberdeen acknowledges and appreciates the support of the 2008 CPO Summit
sponsoring companies: American Express, Softtek, GT Nexus, ApexAnalytix,
SAP, Genpact, Bank of Montreal, VISA Commercial, ICG Commerce, Infosys and
Beeline.
"Voice of the CPO" Webinar - December 11
A summary of the CPO Summit proceedings, which will include the key
findings from the onsite research conducted at the conference, will be
presented on Thursday, December 11, 2008. To register for this free
Webinar, please visit:
https://e-meetings.verizonbusiness.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?Conference_ID=1871674&pas
scode=9776034
CONFERENCE NUMBER: 1871674 PASSCODE: 9776034
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