Recent procurement and Chief Procurement Officer headlines from around the world.
New CPO at Chevron
Chevron has just announced that Maria Lindenberg was appointed Chief Procurement Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2013 and will oversee Chevron’s enterprise-wide supply chain management activities. Lindenberg, who succeeds the retiring Leo Lonergan, was most recently the General Manager of Supply Chain Management for Chevron’s Southern Africa Strategic Business Unit. She joined Chevron in in 2007 as the Vice President, Global Downstream Procurement. She then moved to General Manager, Contracting and Procurement for Chevron’s Project Resources Company, and assumed her most recent assignment which was based in Luanda, Angola in 2011. Lindenberg will be based in Houston, Texas. The retiring CPO, Lonergan, has been in his current role since February 2005 and has been with Chevron or its affiliates since joining Caltex New Zealand in 1976.
CPO Rising offers its congratulations to both Maria and Leo.
New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council Announce Awards
The New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council (The Council) Partnership Awards Gala honored top minority entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies and public agencies for their successes in creating outstanding business collaborations on December 12 in New York City. The “National Corporation of the Year Award” was presented to PepsiCo. Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) received the “Regional Corporation of the Year Award.” Sheri Shafir, Associate Director of Supplier Diversity, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, received the “Advocate of the Year Award.” The corporate co-chair for the event was “friend of the site,” Carol Britton, Managing Director and Chief Procurement Officer, BNY Mellon.
The Council, a National Minority Supplier Development Council affiliate, has approximately 200 corporate members and 1,300 certified African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native American businesses. Its jurisdiction encompasses the State of New York and spans to Trenton, New Jersey.
Coca Cola CPO Touts the Importance of Procurement-led Innovation to Overall Corporate Strategy
Perhaps after reading 2011’s CPO Rising State of the Market Report which focused on procurement-led innovation, Ron Lewis, Coca-Cola’s Chief Procurement Officer gave a keynote presentation at the Supply Side West conference in Q4 2012, that discussed Coke’s plans to double in size by 2020. For Coke to double its size from 2009 to 2020, Lewis said it would require, “disruptive innovation that is new to the world [and not just new to Coke]”. Said Lewis, “Our goal is to be the best at innovation.” Lewis said that Coke understands that it hasn’t cornered the market on innovation and as a result, Coke expects that many of the needed innovations will come from its suppliers via its Open Innovation program.
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