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-July 25, 2007

 
 

Supply Chain Executives on the Move: Supply Chain Can Lead to the Top, as Motorola Supply Chain Chief Gets Promotion to Head Major Division

 
 

Jones Apparel Promotes Supply Chain Executive, while Jamba Juice Nabs New VP from Wal-Mart

 
 

By SCDigest Editorial Staff

 
 

One interesting question for supply chain and logistics professionals has always been: Can a career spent in this field lead to general executive management?

The answer is increasingly Yes, the latest evidence being the promotion of Motorola’s Stu Reed, formerly executive vice president of Motorola's Integrated Supply Chain organization, to president of Motorola's Mobile Devices business unit.

The promotion obviously came from good work in the supply chain. A company press release stated that “Since April 2005, Reed has led the transformation of Motorola's supply chain organization, which encompasses the global operations associated with procurement, new product introduction, manufacturing and customer fulfillment.” It also noted that Reed was instrumental in helping Motorola generate significant cost savings by consolidating suppliers and implementing a comprehensive supply chain strategy.

Prior to coming to Motorola, Reed was an executive in IBM’s supply chain group, where he was a key contributor to that company’s development of an integrated supply chain organization.

In other Supply Chain executive moves, Jones Apparel Group, the Fortune 500 designer, manufacturer and distributor of branded apparel goods, says it has named Douglas Means as Executive Vice President of Production for the Better Sportswear Divisions.  Prior to this promotion, Means had been with Jones for 15 years, most recently serving as Executive Vice President for Corporate Supply Chain and Logistics.

Finally, Jamba Juice, operator of the blended beverage, juice and healthy snack retail chain, has appointed Greg Schwartz as Vice President of Supply Chain Management. The company said he will be charged with executing “a global supply chain strategy.”

Schwartz comes to Jamba Juice from Wal-Mart, where he was Vice President of Global Procurement.

 
     
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