{"id":2227,"date":"2006-10-11T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2006\/10\/11\/next-level-purchasing-wins-innovation-award\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T04:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:16:55","slug":"next-level-purchasing-wins-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/next-level-purchasing-wins-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Level Purchasing Wins Innovation Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I always try to be is \u201cahead of my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Being ahead of your time is anything but a way to become an overnight success. Believe me, there were some discouraging times in the early part of this decade when people said \u201cOnline purchasing training? That\u2019ll never work!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it wasn\u2019t the most popular concept in 2001. But with the same vision I had back then, Next Level Purchasing has grown into a globally recognized provider of procurement courses and supply chain certification.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really look anywhere else other than in the mirror to assess whether or not Next Level Purchasing is staying on the cutting edge. But it sure was nice to be honored by the prestigious Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce as their 2006 Innovative Business of the Year!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s me with the award\u2026<br \/>\n<img class=\"lazyload alignnone\" alt=\"NLPA President Charles Dominick poses with the Innovative Business of the Year Awar plaque from the Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce\" width=\"288\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you can read the press release on our Supply Chain News page.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, a heads up\u2026we are debuting our latest innovation on Tuesday, so stay tuned!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I always try to be is \u201cahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Next Level Purchasing Wins Innovation Award! 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