Q&A Interview series with top procurement executives :

Stephanie Conover
Corporate Director, Systems and Processes Corporate Contracts, Pricing and Supply Chain
Northrop Grumman Corporation

“…We have been working on visibility to our entire spend and spend analytics tools since 2005. In addition, since that time, we have also measured compliance to our corporate agreements. These will remain as priorities for 2008, in addition to the design and implementation of the new purchasing shared service organization…”

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Bob Price
Director Global Supply Chain Management
Kimball International

“…We engage our supplier during the initial stages of our product development process. They will help develop components, capabilities, identify materials, and work with our engineering team on product design. We feel this “collaborative approach” is our best tool in the bag…”

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Thomas S. Hahn
VP Supply Chain Mgmt & Logistics
Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership

“…Contract compliance is critically important to FNGP especially when sourcing for automotive OEM applications.  OEM PPAP and change control guidelines are extremely stringent and gaining approval for sub supplier changes is expensive and time consuming…”

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Scott Searls
Senior VP Procurement & Logistics
Alltel

“…As we lean out the supply chain, buy in low-cost regions and get closer to the manufacture …. “Being there”, being informed and using sound supplier quality management practices becomes more critical…”

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Kees Gerretse
Director Supplies & Transport
Corus

“…Proper supplier relationship management and end user engagement are my topics…”

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Ronald D. Schnur
Vice President Strategic Sourcing
Coors Brewing Company

“…We are “walking the supply chain” with our key suppliers and looking to eliminate product and process waste throughout the extended customer/supplier supply chain…”

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