Next Event
September 11, 2008 - Thursday - Tarrytown Marriott - Harvest Grille
Restaurant
Joint
Dinner Meeting with ISM 7 Counties & CSCMP
Topic:
"VALUE
ANALYSIS:
The
Key to Sustainable Competitive Advantage"
Abate
Kassa, President of AOK Consulting & Education
Purchasing and supply management organizations are undergoing
profound change. The reason for this is the realization
by senior management of the untapped potential of effective
supply chain management. With outside purchases of goods
and services typically representing over 65% of total sales,
the effective leveraging of this spend can bolster organizational
performance and create competitive advantage. For the procurement
professional, the key to sustainable competitive advantage
is Value Analysis.
As the roles and expectations of purchasing and supply management
have changed, so have the skills required to succeed. Traditional
skills in cost-price analysis and negotiations are no longer sufficient.
New technical and strategic skills as well as ability to bring
about improvements within the organization are critical in this
new globally competitive environment. Value Analysis is the procurement professional's most powerful tool to bring about change in performance improvement and cost-effectiveness.
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Our
Speaker:
Abate Kassa, President of AOK Consulting & Education
Abate
is a former Procurement Manager of Ethiopian Airlines where he
introduced a corporate-wide value improvement process. He combines
resource and process consultancy to provide organic change for his
client organizations instead of the traditional mechanistic change.
He assists his clients to optimize the value of their procurement
and supply management function and also provides a comprehensive professional development program entitled "Supply Management
Excellence."
Abate was retained as Executive Director of the National Association
of Purchasing Management-New York for 19 years. He is a recipient
of NAPM-New York's 1992 J. H. Leonard Award for his contributions
in institutional capacity building of NAPM-New York as a center
of excellence in purchasing and supply management and a Presidential
Citation from the Institute for Supply Management. He holds a
bachelor's degree (with distinction) in economics from Addis Abeba
University and a master's degree in government and politics from
St. John's University, New York.
Time:
Sign in and Networking at 5:15 PM;
Presentation 5:45 PM; Dinner 7:00 PM
Presentations
are FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC
Dinner:
APICS Members $25.00; Non- Members $30
Please make your reservation by September
8, 2008
and indicate if you are staying for dinner
Contact Ron Hammond by
Phone @ 845.358.6638,
Email @ rond.hammond@verizon.net
Location:
Westchester Tarrytown
Marriott - Harvest Grille Restaurant
Address: 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown , NY 10591
Phone #: 914-631-2200
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