BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - March 3, 2009) - Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS),
announces its selection for the 2009 Aberdeen Industry Achievement Awards
of Excellence in Supply Chain Management. Aberdeen's Supply Chain
Management Research Practice is pleased to announce that this year's
nominees hail from an extensive list of formidable players in the industry
and each have an impressive supply chain success story that led to their
nomination.
Award nominees are derived from Aberdeen's research over the past 12
months, and our Supply Chain Management team of senior analysts has
identified the following organizations as award nominees in the following 5
categories: Supply Chain Process Excellence, Business Evolution, Innovation
in Technology, Performance Excellence, and Supply Chain Process
Integration.
And the nominees are:
NTU, Plantronics and Hubone Logistics -- nominated for the Supply Chain
Process Excellence Award -- Awarded to the enterprise that has demonstrated
process ingenuity, agility, flexibility, and scalability to address
evolving business requirements.
Chocolate Potpourri, VTech and Disney -- nominated for the Business
Evolution Award Aligning supply chain tactics with business goals --
Awarded to the enterprise that has demonstrated the ability to manage the
flow of information across internal functional practices to achieve
demonstrable business growth.
Celestica, Holloway USA , British Petroleum and Huber Engineered Woods --
nominated for the Innovation in Technology Award -- Awarded to the
enterprise that has leveraged supply chain related technology solutions to
solve pressing business issues to positively impact company performance.
Poland Springs, Glazer's and Performance Food Group (PFG) -- nominated for
the Performance Excellence Award -- Awarded to the enterprise that has
harnessed the performance impacts of supply chain activities and mastered
methodologies for financial, operational, and customer-centric performance
excellence.
Ikea, Del Monte and Estee Lauder -- nominated for the Supply Chain Process
Integration Award -- Awarded to the enterprise that has implemented a
supply chain process that spans multiple business processes across planning
and execution and have successfully demonstrated integration of business
processes across functional areas.
These esteemed organizations will be highlighted at Aberdeen's 2009 Supply
Chain Management (SCM) Summit in San Francisco, CA, April 2-3, 2009. The
award winners will be announced and presented prestigious acknowledgements
by Aberdeen's CEO and Chief Research Officer during an award ceremony on
Day One of the conference.
The 2009 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Summit is an annual two-day
executive conference that brings together supply chain leaders from around
the globe to share insights, discuss strategies and engage with peers
surrounding key challenges facing the supply chain today. For more
information on the event or to register to attend, please visit
http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/SCM.html.
Confirmed presenters include:
-- Cisco Systems - Angel Mendez, SVP Customer Value Chain Management
-- Coca-Cola North America - Thomas Blackstock, Former VP Supply Chain
Operations
-- Intel - Stuart Pann, VP Sales/Marketing, General Manager, Business
Management Group
-- Supply Chain Council - Richard Sherman, Founder
-- Mutual Distributing Company - Jim Staton, VP Information Technology
-- World Renowned Supply Chain Expert, General William "Gus" Pagonis,
Retired US Army General, Business Leadership Author, Lecturer
-- BD - Larry P. Smith, VP Global Supply Chain
-- USS-POSCO Industries - Michael Obermire, Global SCM Head
-- New York & Company - Sherwin Socaransky, VP Information Technology
-- Hästens Sängar - Dominic Luzi, CIO
-- The Schwan Food Company - Susan Grelling, VP Strategic Sourcing &
Material Solutions
-- Bayer Healthcare - Thomas Panzer, VP Global Supply Chain
-- Swarovski - Robert Grant, VP Supply Chain/Inventory Management
-- Disney - David Steele, Director, Supply Chain, Operations, &
Technology
-- Sara Lee - Bill Nienburg, VP, Sales & Operations Planning
-- GSGM Inc - Paul Macler, Founder & President
-- Papa John's Food Service - Susan Kinder, Director, Supply Chain
Systems
Technology vendors and solutions providers can participate in the summit as
event sponsors to get their products in front of the decision makers that
matter. For sponsorship information please visit
http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/Supply-Chain-Management-Summit/the-scm-summit-sponsorship.html
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Nari Viswanathan
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
(617) 854-5293
Nari.Viswanathan@aberdeen.com