Prime Advantage CEO Named Supply Chain Professional of Year by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Mag

Feb. 19, 2013 - PRLog -- Prime Advantage, the leading buying consortium for midsized industrial manufacturers and food processing companies,  announced that President, CEO and Founder Louise O’Sullivan has been named Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine’s “Supply Chain Provider Professional of the Year.” For the past five years, O’Sullivan has been named a Pro to Know by the respected trade magazine’s editorial selection committee. The magazine announced the annual listing of Pros to Know on February 15.

The Provider Pros to Know is a listing of individuals from a software firm or service provider, consultancy or academia, who have helped their supply chain clients or the supply chain community at large prepare to meet the significant challenges in the year ahead.

“The efforts that a number of the industry’s leading executives continue to take to improve their business’s functionality and in turn, progress the global supply chain—this was one of the main reasons we started the ‘Pros to Know’ awards in the first place,” confirmed Barry Hochfelder, Editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

Honoring the supply chain’s best and brightest, Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s “Pros to Know” include professionals proactively working to improve their business’s functions in a number of categories—including manufacturing and production output; procurement; logistics; risk mitigation strategies; sourcing; financial operations; packaging and distribution; transportation; and much more.

As founder and CEO of Prime Advantage, O’Sullivan’s vision of providing procurement and sourcing benefits to midsized manufacturers has provided a powerful business advantage for the group’s 750+ members. The competitive pricing, volume-based rebates, value-added services and breadth of supplier categories offered to members of Prime Advantage are proven to help companies run more efficiently, be more profitable and mitigate risk within their supply chains.

“We are thrilled to have two members of our leadership team recognized for their ability to provide the supply chain community with a powerful strategic sourcing solution,” said O’Sullivan. “Our Members benefit greatly from the savings programs we have in place with our industry-leading Endorsed Suppliers.  And we embrace the opportunity to continue reaching new markets and new companies while also striving to keep creating even more value for our existing Members and Endorsed Suppliers.”

Beginning in January 2013, the publication’s editorial selection committee reviewed close to 400 entries to find the applicants that best fit the criteria. The full list of 2013 “Pros to Know” awards winners is available on www.sdcexec.com. The expanded awards coverage and winners list will appear in the March 2013 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and online thereafter.

In the past ten years, Prime Advantage has paid more than $130 million in rebates and discounts to its manufacturing industry Members. These real savings are helping U.S. companies gain a powerful competitive advantage.

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About Prime Advantage
Founded in 1997, Prime Advantage is a buying consortium for industrial manufacturers with more than 750 members and more than 130 endorsed suppliers. For more information on Prime Advantage, visit the website at www.primeadvantage.com.