The Right Place | The Center-West Supply Chain Management Council
About The Council
The Right Place | The Center-West Supply Chain Management Council seeks to connect, challenge, and energize its members to achieve the following vision: to be the Integrated Supply Chain Management hub enhancing the competitiveness of West Michigan companies.
From that vision comes the council’s mission to collaborate with top ISCM leaders to offer resources to area organizations and our members to achieve Supply Chain Management excellence.
The Supply Chain Management Council has established a strategic plan to achieve the following objectives:
- Provide a collaborative forum and networking opportunities leading to personal growth for Council members and area professionals.
- Leverage collective knowledge, capabilities, and ability to influence to enhance process performance and profitability of Council member companies.
- Play a lead role in advancing regional knowledge of the supply chain management with a focus on furthering economic development in West Michigan.
As part of a trust group of leaders, members are the voice of supply chain in West Michigan and solve common challenges by providing actionable insights on new developments. The Council provides a platform to discuss issues not unique to an individual business and offer best practice learning through tours, discussion, and connections to educational institutional partners; and produces the popular Supply Chain Conference and Commodity Trends Outlook events. Membership in the Supply Chain Management Council provides an opportunity to create new collaborations with other supply chain professionals.
The Council partners with
APICS, CSCMP, and ISM frequently. To learn more, download our brochure.
Serving our profession, our community, our companies and our members.
Supply Chain Management Council Member Directory
If you would like to contact any members of the Supply Chain Management Council, please contact Rene Booker at bookerr@rightplace.org or 616.301.6247
Bucher Hydraulics, Andrew Jansheski, Purchasing/Materials Planning
Columbian
Logistics Network, Blair Thomas, Director of
Customer Care
DeWys
Manufacturing, Andrew DeWys, Supply Chain Manager - *Vice Chair
EBW Electronics, Bill McMillan, Continuous Improvement & Supply Chain Manager
Flexco, Thomas Miedema, Purchasing Manager
Gentex Corporation, David Birr, Senior Purchasing Manager
Haworth, Nick Kuhn, Senior Global Sourcing & Engineering Manager - *Chair
Irwin Seating, Kurt Miller, Supply Chain & Distribution Manager
Irwin Seating, Rich Thelen, General Manager
Jireh Metals, Eula Gaddis, Senior Quality Manager
JR Automation Technologies, LLC, Dave Borski, Director of Strategic Sourcing
Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Beverly Bekius, Strategic Commodity Manager - *Membership Chair
Metal Flow, Angela Westfield, Director of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing
Michigan State University, Dr. David Frayer Ph.D., Assistant Dean, Executive Development and Professional Programs
Michigan State University, Kevin McCurren, Commercialization Program Director, Gateway Grand Rapids
NN Inc. | Autocam Corp. - Mobile Solutions, Derrick Staat, Purchasing Manager
Shape Corp., Kevin Wickering, Director of Materials & Logistics - *Past Chair
The
Right Place, Inc. | The Center-West, Justine Burdette, Vice President, Technical Services | Regional Director - *Facilitator
The Right Place, Inc. | The Center-West, René Booker, Executive Assistant
Tiara Yachts, June Kuiper, C.P.M., Director - Supply Chain Management
Unist, Inc., Nicholas Standish, Purchasing Manager
Western Michigan University, Zachary Williams, Associate Professor of Marketing/ISM Program Director