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TRACK 1 SESSION 6
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Leading Edge Trends In Supply Management
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Tuesday, September 15th : 10:15am - 11:15am
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Good sailors keep their eyes on the horizon. This session reveals fifteen leading edge trends in supply management from the perspective of a former Fortune 500 CPO. Current market leaders must stay on top of these trends to maintain course while aspiring leaders need to understand and embrace them if they wish to become world-class.
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Speaker:
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Robert Rudzki - President and CEO
Greybeard Advisors
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Robert A. Rudzki, a former Fortune 500 corporate executive, is President of Greybeard Advisors LLC. Greybeard is a firm comprised entirely of deeply-experienced industry executives and managers. Since its formation 4 years ago, Greybeard has become a leading provider of advisory services for procurement and supply chain management to the process, manufacturing and service industries.
Prior to founding Greybeard Advisors in 2004, Mr. Rudzki served as Senior Vice President for Bayer Corporation. At Bayer, he led a nationally-recognized transformation that generated significant improvements in costs and working capital, and his organization was a finalist for Purchasing magazine's Medal of Excellence. Prior to Bayer, he was an executive at Bethlehem Steel Corp., where he oversaw Bethlehem's global procurement and logistics activities. During his tenure, Bethlehem's procurement organization was recognized as "top quartile" in a global benchmarking study conducted by A.T. Kearney, and was also twice recognized by Purchasing Magazine as a "Best Place to Work."
A frequent speaker at conferences, Mr. Rudzki is the author of several books, and writes a weekly a blog on the website of Supply Chain Management Review magazine.
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