Sentence examples for head of supply from inspiring English sources
"Cutzamala water is probably the most expensive on the planet," says Manuel Reyes, head of supply at the Mexico City Water Department, better known as Sacmex.
Lenovo wants to own more of its capacity in China and elsewhere; it gets better results from its own facilities than from its outside contractors, says Gerry Smith, the firm's global head of supply chain.
Emma Gilleland is head of supply chain at Marston's, the UK's leading independent brewer.
As the former head of supply chain and fulfilment technologies for online retail giant Amazon, Dr Shouraboura wasn't short on ideas.
At an October meeting of company executives, consumer chief Liu harshly interrogated Gerry P. Smith, Lenovo's head of supply chain, over why he lacked enough netbook PCs to sell.
Raymond Russell, operations vice president at Penske Logistics, a venture owned by GE and Penske Truck Leasing, oversees shipping of Whirlpool dishwashers and stoves in the U.S. In December he and Stephen Whalen, Whirlpool's head of supply chain operations, looked at how to cut down on costly redeliveries.
She is now jointly accountable for enforcing the code of conduct with the head of the supply chain, a change which she says has removed an "us-versus-them problem".
Tim Latham, head of water supply at Bournemouth, says: "We basically produce water but in becoming more energy efficient we want to be viewed as a green company that tries to do the right thing".
This point was made by Dexter Galvin, head of the supply chain programme at CDP. Galvin admits it may sound obvious, but the basics of water accounting – from withdrawals, to usage, to discharge – are key for companies.
Mark Hodges, the firm's head of energy supply and services in the UK and Ireland, said: "Competitive pricing is the way to retain existing customers and win new business in this hard-fought market".
Gerry Smith, Lenovo's head of global supply chain, stated to the WSJ that this move is part of an effort to localize product.
