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I am a PhD candidate at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Management. I came across your website while conducting some background research on category management to support my dissertation in supply chain management. First let me congratulate you on this web site. I found both design and content to be excellent. You have assembled a wealth of background information into practical issues in category management, and I learned quite a bit browsing the site.

I am currently studying supply chain implications of category management in fast moving consumer goods. I’m working on this project with Nallan Suresh, chair of the Operations Management and Strategy Dept. of our business school. I believe that it is beneficial to review academic research with practitioners to ensure that we are asking, and answering, questions that have business as well as academic value. In that context I have been reaching out to the business community to establish networking opportunities...I would of course be delighted to share findings of this project, which I hope may contribute to your mission of “advancing professional standards in category management.”

Jim Hamister
PhD Candidate
School of Management
SUNY Buffalo
716-645-3251
jwh4@buffalo.edu.

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		Dear Retail Management Professional: In today’s highly competitive and global marketplace, retailers must constantly assess their customers’ needs and competitive environment. A research team at the State University of New York at Buffalo is conducting an investigation into how managers of retail firms are coping with these increased competitive pressures. Our goal is to understand how the adoption of Category Management and Supply Chain Management affect an organization’s ability to respond to this changing market environment. This research is supported by a grant from the Institute for Supply Management and serves as the dissertation research for a doctoral candidate in operations management. Your participation in this study is paramount to our successful assessment and understanding of this topic area. I know that your time is extremely valuable, so we have tried to make this survey as brief as possible. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is designed to be answered by a category manager, supply chain manager, purchasing, manufacturing or logistics vice presidents/director/manager within your firm. Please forward this survey to the appropriate individual(s) within your organization. In appreciation of your time and effort, a summary of the survey results will be e-mailed to you for your benchmarking purposes. Please be assured that all information collected with this survey will be kept strictly confidential, and you are free not to answer any questions you do not wish to answer. None of the data collected will be used to identify particular individuals or companies. All contact information such as company names, titles, and Email addresses will be transferred to a separate database used to send out benchmarking reports on completion of the study. No linkage will be maintained between survey response data and contact information. All data will be presented in aggregated form only. Your response to this survey indicates your consent to participation. This research study has been reviewed by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board, University at Buffalo. For questions regarding the rights of participants in research, the IRB may be contacted at 716/645-6474 or 515 Capen Hall, University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260. We would also be glad to mail hard copy versions of the survey including return postage. Should you have any questions regarding this survey please feel free to contact me at 716-645-3251 or by e-mail jwh4@buffalo.edu. Thank you very much for your participation in this research. We look forward to your response Survey of Category Management and Supply Chain Management Practices

Quality of supply could be assessed nationally
The Pharmaceutical Journal
Quality of supply could be assessed nationally table width="230" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" align="right"> Howard Stokoe: contract decisions can be made on the basis of evidence Local indicators of supplier performance could be brought together to provide information on the reliability of suppliers across the UK. Outlining the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency's work on assessing supplier performance at the summer symposium of the Procurement and Distribution Interest Group (PDIG) of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in Coventry last week, Howard Stokoe, lead category manager for general pharmaceuticals (professional and network) at the NHS PASA, described how the programme would be pushed forward.

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