PURCHASING PErformance Measurement

Presentations, lecture notes and visual aids delivered at the Federated Press Purchasing Performance Measurement Course held in Toronto on February 7 & 8, 2002.

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The total cost of supply
Steven Ruskin

Performance metrics in procurement
Linda Tuck Chapman

Tools used to measure performance for cost reduction in purchasing
Jean François Desjardins

Empowering employee efficiencies as a driver for performance accountability
Sue Gadsby

E-purchasing initiatives
Jodi S. Nakelsky

Methodologies for measurement in the purchasing function
Theofilos Mexis
Frank Montimurro

JIT and rapid production development
Steven Ruskin

The future of purchasing and performance metrics - purchasing intelligence
Stuart Pothan

Course Leader

Steven Ruskin
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP

Steven Ruskin is a Principal Consultant in Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP's Management Consulting Services Practice. Steven is currently focused on assessing procurement organization effectiveness, delivering solutions to support business initiatives and assisting clients in realizing benefits through technological solutions. He has expertise in improving efficiency with effective e-procurement solutions, implementation issues, ERP application implementations, system integration and custom application solution delivery. Steven is actively involved in defining strategies and tactical solutions for clients within the context of e-markets and e-procurement.

Co-Lecturers

Linda Tuck Chapman Scotiabank	Linda Tuck Chapman is Vice-President of Strategic Sourcing at Scotiabank. She provides leadership to developing supplier arrangements for all externally purchased goods and services in Canada and over 50 international locations where the bank conducts business or holds a majority ownership in retail banks. Linda's mandates include procurement process redesign and streamlining, cost reductions, e-procurement, consortium arrangements, supplier performance and contract maintenance.
Jodi S. Nakelsky Scotiabank	Jodi S. Nakelsky is Director of Procurement Operations, Strategic Sourcing, at Scotiabank. Most recently, she has been leading Scotiabank's e-purchasing strategy and business process improvement initiatives. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Jodi was a consultant in AT Kearney's Toronto Office, where her projects focused on strategic sourcing and process reengineering initiatives for the financial services, manufacturing and transportation industries.
Jean François Desjardins Bombardier Aerospace Inc.	Jean François Desjardins is Site Director of Procurement at Bombardier Aerospace Inc. in Toronto. He is responsible for procurement for the de Havilland operation centre, with purchasing at approximately a billion dollars Canadian per year. He has been part of Bombardier procurement for more than 10 years, dealing directly with a supplier base concentrated in North America, Europe and Asia.
Frank Montimurro, C.P.P. Bell Canada	Frank Montimurro is Associate Director of Supply-Chain Operations at Bell Canada. Frank is responsible for establishing strategic objective performance targets and for the execution of a supplier performance management measurement program for strategic vendors. He led a team of internal user groups and external third-party contractors in the redesign of an integrated supply chain and implemented "best practice" techniques in the supply chain operations group, such as advanced optimization planning, vendor-managed inventory and supplier equipment consignment implementations.
Sue Gadsby, C.P.P Apotex Holdings Inc.	Sue Gadsby is Director of Procurement at Apotex Holdings Inc. The Apotex group of companies researches, develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products to more than 115 countries around the globe. Sue has more than 20 years experience in supply and logistics management in several industries. At Apotex, she has been responsible for indirect and direct procurement and an in-depth reengineering project to develop a central procurement organization.
Stuart Pothan Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.	Stuart Pothan is National Solutions Leader, Business-to-Business Solutions, Oracle Corporation Canada Inc., working with decision makers at Canadian manufacturing and distribution companies to help them better understand how the deployment of sophisticated, web-enabled, information management systems can help organizations cut costs and improve operational efficiencies. Stuart has more than 25 years experience in operations and supply-chain management.
Theofilos (Mike) Mexis, C.P.P., C.L.P. Celestica	Theofilos (Mike) Mexis is Commodity Manager at Celestica. He has worked in a variety of procurement environments in a senior, consultant and managerial capacity for small and multinational organizations in manufacturing, distribution, freight-forwarding and non-production (MRO) services. Mike's purchasing background includes extensive use of MRP/ERP, providing support with design-to-market development cycles and MRO environments.

Biographies are accurate at the time of recording.