{"id":2512,"date":"2008-08-29T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/08\/29\/purch-lympics-winners-announced\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T03:59:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:59:44","slug":"purch-lympics-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/purch-lympics-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Purch-lympics Winners Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful two weeks of voting, the winners of the Purch-lympics have been determined!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to personally thank all of the purchasing and supply management professionals that submitted essays as well as all of the people around the world who took the time to read the essays and vote.<\/p>\n<p>So here are our winners\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%;color: #ffcc33\"><strong>The \u201cGold Medal\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Name: G.P Thushara Sampath Gunasekara<br \/>\nCountry: Sri Lanka<br \/>\nEssay Topic: Increasing Supplier Competition<br \/>\nPrize: A full scholarship to earn the SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification (valued at $1,149 USD)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 130%;color: #c0c0c0\">The \u201cSilver Medal\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Name: John Ransom<br \/>\nCountry: United States of America<br \/>\nEssay Topic: Evaluating Vendor Viability<br \/>\nPrize: Enrollment in one of Next Level Purchasing\u2019s full-length supply chain online classes (valued at $209 USD)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%;color: #996633\"><strong>The \u201cBronze Medal\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Name: Sandi Derouin<br \/>\nCountry: Canada<br \/>\nEssay Topic: Fixing Internal Customer Errors<br \/>\nPrize: The \u201cSupply Management in The Real World\u201d eBook (valued at $79 USD)<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to congratulate our other finalists Leonard Ruhukwa and Denise Minnich. Though we didn\u2019t plan it, I\u2019d like to award them a prize as well for being finalists. They will each get an enrollment to our online mini-course \u201cNegotiation No-No\u2019s,\u201d valued at $14.99 (USD).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I would like to give the Charles\u2019 Choice Awards to a few participants who I personally felt had great essays, but didn\u2019t garner enough votes to make it to the finals. The Charles\u2019 Choice Awards will also award an enrollment to Negotiation No-No\u2019s and will go to:<\/p>\n<p>Evans Mudake<\/p>\n<p>Bizerka Oreskovic<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Haakuria<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Khan<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Hoover<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Napoli<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I\u2019d like to thank Sourcing Innovation and Supply Excellence for covering the Purch-lympics in the blogosphere and I\u2019d like to thank you for watching this exciting series. Be sure to check the Purchasing Certification Blog regularly for more exciting stuff in the near future. You can even subscribe to this blog to get new posts by email.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, a great Labor Day (in the USA), and a great Labour Day (in Canada)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful two weeks of voting, the winners of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","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>Purch-lympics Winners Announced! - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/purch-lympics-winners-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Purch-lympics Winners Announced! 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