Food Logistics Rock Stars Award recognizes
influential individuals in the industry whose achievements, hard
work and vision have shaped the global cold food supply chain.
Logility, Inc., the leader in AI-first supply chain planning
software, announced VP Business Development, Diane Ngabire, Allan
Dow, president of Logility, Inc & Suresh Babu, VP of Supply
Chain & Procurement at Great Lakes Cheese, are Food Logistics
2024 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain. This award recognizes the Top
100 influential individuals for distinct categories within the cold
food industry.
Suresh Babu, Great Lakes Cheese, Lifetime Achievement
With over 20 years of experience in the supply chain industry,
Babu has built a strong supply chain for Great Lakes Cheese,
proving why he was named within the Lifetime Achievement category.
Great Lakes Cheese is the nation’s leading natural cheese packager
and an award-winning cheese manufacturer and is a trusted long-term
partner for a variety of retail, foodservice, and ingredients
customers. Babu and his team are evolving their processes and
technology with a primary goal of having the best customer service
level on all orders.
“Our supply chain digital transformation is supporting Great
Lakes Cheese’s incredible business growth while supporting our
customer’s ability to meet demand variations. Great Lakes Cheese is
committed to providing a 99% plus service level to our customers.
This is only possible by continually reinvesting not only in
physical infrastructure but people and systems”, says Babu. “This
recognition is a testament to the Great Lakes Cheese ‘customer
first’ approach, and a reminder of the possibilities that comes
with pushing the boundaries of supply chain excellence.”
A good forecast plan is a combination of needs, changing
dynamics and business growth, that obviously adds up to your
forecast accuracy level. Utilizing the Logility® Digital Supply
Chain Platform Great Lakes Cheese can achieve service level goals
and gain efficiency across multiple parts of their supply chain.
Babu’s commitment as a persistent and strategic leader is helping
to drive Great Lakes Cheese supply chain transformation.
"Supply chain rock stars are the backbone of the cold food
chain. The words used to describe many of this year’s winners range
from collaborative, passionate, innovative and forward-thinking to
inspired, driven and dependable," says Marina Mayer,
editor-in-chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain
Executive.
Diane Ngabire, Logility, Rising Star
Named within the Rising Star category, Ngabire’s experience is
already impressive. Her strength is in building new business
development teams and sales organizations. Ngabire has impacted the
industry by implementing, creating, and influencing best practices
within her teams and is known as a champion of utilizing leading
industry tools, establishing global processes, and delivering brand
evangelization.
“Often, business development teams are underappreciated, but the
best companies are investing in these teams and seeing immediate
value. At Logility, I have had the opportunity to use my global
experience to build a robust, energetic, and strategic business
development team. Through our new onboarding program, all our new
BDE's created opportunities in their first month, says Ngabire. I
am honored to be named a Rock Star in the supply chain and to be
chosen among so many incredible people.”
In just a short amount of time at Logility, Ngabire changed the
game of business development leading her team to achieve
record-breaking opportunity numbers. She is committed to ensuring
her team has the right tools, messaging, and support to understand
and engage with the supply chain community.
Allan Dow, Logility, Lifetime Achievement
Dow, a repeat Rockstar award recipient, and Lifetime Achievement
category winner is focused on helping enterprises navigate the
unprecedented rates of change and disruption across their
operations with a significant transformation in supply chain
planning due to advancements in technology, generational shifts of
planners, and the significant speed of market changes and
disruptions.
Under Dow’s leadership, Logility is putting fast, data-driven
decision-making at the fingertips of supply chain organizations.
Utilizing Narrow AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI, the
Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform democratizes supply chain
intelligence across the entire company, allowing clients to embrace
broader and more meaningful participation in supply chain
decisions—enabling them to better respond to these inflection
points. As the AI-first supply chain planning solution, Logility
clients are better positioned to take market insights and translate
them into executable demand strategies, which in turn helps to
create a competitive advantage that lets them gain market share
while coming out of turbulent times.
“Logility’s brand promise is to help our clients operate the
world’s best supply chains to improve the lives of others.” Dow
said. “I’m grateful Suresh, Diane, and I are recipients of the Rock
Stars award, as it speaks to the commitment the entire Logility and
Great Lakes Cheese teams have for positively influencing the cold
food supply chain.”
Recipients of this year’s award will be profiled in Food
Logistics’ Jan/Feb 2024 print issue and at
http://www.FoodLogistics.com.
Go to https://foodl.me/u2nlsbsl to view the full list of
winners. Go to https://www.foodlogistics.com/awards to learn more
about other Food Logistics’ awards.
About Food Logistics
Food Logistics reaches more than 26,000 supply chain executives
in the global food and beverage industries, including executives in
the food sector (growers, producers, manufacturers, wholesalers and
grocers) and the logistics section (transportation, warehousing,
distribution, software and technology) who share a mutual interest
in the operations and business aspects of the global cold food
supply chain. Food Logistics also operates SCN Summit and Women in
Supply Chain Forum. Go to www.FoodLogistics.com to learn more.
About IRONMARKETS
IRONMARKETS, formerly known as AC Business Media, is a leading
business-to-business media and buyer engagement platform with a
portfolio of renowned brands in heavy construction, asphalt,
concrete, paving, rental, sustainability, landscape, manufacturing,
logistics, and supply chain markets. IRONMARKETS delivers relevant,
cutting-edge content to its audiences through its industry-leading
digital properties, trade shows, conferences, videos, magazines,
webinars, and newsletters. It also provides advertisers the
analytics, data, and ability to reach their target audience. Learn
more at https://www.iron.markets.
About Great Lakes Cheese
Great Lakes Cheese is the nation’s leading natural cheese
packager and an award-winning cheese manufacturer. Great Lakes
Cheese is a trusted long-term partner for a variety of retail,
foodservice, and ingredients customers. The company has a national
footprint with facilities in Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Utah,
Wisconsin, and Texas. Specialties include natural and processed
shreds, slices, chunks, and snack products. Family- and
employee-owned, Great Lakes Cheese celebrated their 65th year in
business in 2023. https://www.greatlakescheese.com/.
About Logility
Logility’s Digital Supply Chain Platform delivers optimized
demand, inventory, manufacturing, and supply plans – helping to
provide executives the confidence and control to increase margins
and service levels, while delivering sustainable supply chains.
Designed for speed and agility, Logility’s cloud-based platform
provides an innovative blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and
predictive analytics to help deliver integrated planning and
operations across the end-to-end supply chain. Our prescriptive
approach drives team alignment for over 650 clients in 80 countries
with prioritized outcomes designed to create demonstrable value.
Logility is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AMSWA). Learn more at logility.com
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