Strategic Sourcing Europe

The following 9 CPOs have been selected by www.Purchasing.com for its second annual audiocast series:

• Kurt Doelling, Sun Microsystems
• Rick Jacobs, Eaton Corp.
• Anthony Santiago, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Gregg Brandyberry, GlaxoSmithKline
• Scott Searls, Alltel Wireless
• Brent Shinall, Helix Energy Solutions
• Rick Hughes, Proctor & Gamble
• Brad Holcomb, Dean Foods Co.’s Dairy Group
• Greg Shoemaker, Hewlett-Packard

Each of them belongs to a rather well-established organisation and is spreading messages about topics/challenges close to their heart and related to: education, importance of soft skills, savings pressure, savings at the design stage, sourcing cycle time efficiencies, future cost management, creating a purchasing organisation from scratch…

You can see, read and listen to them here, and may be one day… you’ll be one of them!

You can listen to the ones selected in 2006 there: Solectron, Tyco, IBM, Lucent…