The winners of awards for supply chain resilience and risk management excellence were honored by the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council at its annual event which took place on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016, at the Sheraton Palo Alto, in Palo Alto, California. This year’s event attracted over 100 attendees from all over the country. There are now almost 1,100 general members of the Resiliency Council.
Its goal is to bring together supply chain risk management (SCRM) and resiliency practitioners with industry experts and thought leaders to advance the professional discipline through opportunities to collaborate, develop and share best practices, and be recognized for innovation and leadership. The awards program is one of the key elements of the Resiliency Council’s strategy to accelerate enterprise adoption of supply chain risk management and resiliency as a professional discipline and mission-critical business process.
“As evidenced by the over 100% year-over-year growth in event participation and general membership, the Resiliency Council has emerged quickly as the leading SCRM professional community,” said Bill Hurles, Executive Director. “We continue to believe that recognition of companies and individuals within that community will be critical to the institutionalization of resiliency concepts and business practices within the enterprise.”
The awards program is designed to recognize organizations and individuals that serve as role models and leaders in driving supply chain resiliency strategy success within their company, supply chain network, and across industries. The awards committee considered nominations from its general membership of over 1000 members worldwide comprised of OEMs/brand owners, suppliers, and experts from the Council’s technical advisor, Resilinc. The six award categories and winners announced were as follows:
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNER OF THE YEAR: Palo Alto Networks
This award was based on a number of criteria and input related to customer collaboration practices and culture, technology adoption, and overall breadth and maturity-level of processes in place, as well as the organization’s commitment to institutionalize best practices and demonstrate innovation and continuous improvement over time. Vonnie French, vice president supply chain operations, Rachel Yabut, senior project manager, and Dmitriy Krichevskiy, risk manager, accepted the award on behalf of Palo Alto Networks.
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN INDUSTRY LEADER OF THE YEAR – LIFE SCIENCES: Amgen
This award goes to the company that has done the most to advance the SCRM and resiliency discipline both within their company and across their industry. The industry leader is early to adopt advanced SCRM and resiliency processes and technology and is closely watched by its peers. As such, the company serves as a role model for industry peers via its commitment to institutionalizing SCRM processes and best practices and track record of achieving benefits and results. The industry leader also generously shares experiences and lessons learned with peers at industry events. Patricia Turney, executive director of supply chain, Rod MacLea, director of supply chain, and Martin VanTrieste, senior vice president of quality, accepted the award on behalf of Amgen.
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN TECHNOLOGY DRIVER OF THE YEAR: Juniper Networks
This award recognizes the company that is most advanced in terms of technology adoption, the use of technology to achieve customer-supplier collaboration, and the overall maturity-level of technology-enabled processes and best practices in place. In addition, the committee considered organizational culture as it relates to technology adoption and risk taking, as well as the organization’s commitment to leveraging innovation and driving continuous improvement over time. Steve Darendinger, vice president supply chain, and Mark Graham, director supply chain, and Ashu Gupta, senior manager, risk & analytics, accepted the award on behalf of the company.
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD: Yossi Sheffi
This award recognizes the educator that best supports further development of university-level education programs focusing on supply chain operations and resiliency and is best preparing the next generation of supply chain risk management superstars with hands-on training using real life scenarios, tools and case studies. In addition to talent development, this award also recognizes educators that play an important role in cross-pollinating ideas and strategies between academia and the business community. Yossi Sheffi is the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT and the author of several books including the recently published The Power of Resilience.
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR: Jamie Love, Sigma Aldrich
This award recognizes individual success in championing the importance of supply chain resiliency within one’s company and being a change agent. The individual’s efforts to advance the profession–by sharing best practices, collaborating with key supply chain partners on successes and lessons learned, via active participation in industry events and media communication opportunities – was also a consideration in the selection process. Jamie Love is vice president of global operations at Sigma Aldrich.
RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN COLLALBORATOR OF THE YEAR: HGST
This award recognizes the supply chain partner that collaborates most effectively with customers for mutual benefit. The Collaborator of the year is proactive, responsive, transparent, willing to share appropriate information, and committed to working with its customers to achieve multi-enterprise supply chain performance excellence, KC Wong, principal field applications engineer, and Clifford Bast, senior global manager, accepted the award on behalf of HGST.
About the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council
The Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council is a professional community and network for supply chain risk management practitioners, leaders, and stakeholders. The principal goals of the Council are to (1) bring together SCRM and resiliency practitioners with luminaries and thought leaders to advance the professional discipline through opportunities to collaborate, share best practices, and be recognized for innovation and leadership and (2) elevate the profile of supply chain risk management and resiliency challenges and opportunities vis-a-vis the C-level strategic agenda. The Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council has over 1,000 general members and has an open membership policy. Interested individuals within the business community and academia that wish to become a member of the community can do so by joining the LinkedIn discussion group by the same name.
