{"id":2557,"date":"2008-11-04T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/11\/04\/purchasing-supply-management-loses-a-guru\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T04:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:18:57","slug":"purchasing-supply-management-loses-a-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/purchasing-supply-management-loses-a-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing &amp; Supply Management Loses A Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been in disbelief since receiving the phone call last Wednesday afternoon. My cousin, friend, and fellow procurement enthusiast Justin Falgione suddenly and unexpectedly passed on while traveling on business. It wasn\u2019t until after attending his funeral today that I could bring myself to write a tribute to this brilliant individual.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Justin was a category manager for Ariba specializing in indirect spend. In recent years, he began getting more well-deserved public exposure in the field for authoring and co-authoring excellent articles in publications like Supply &amp; Demand Chain Executive, Inside Supply Management, and Ariba\u2019s Supply Watch.<\/p>\n<p>Justin had an amazing knowledge of procurement. In mere minutes of speaking with him, you had no choice but to be awed by his intelligence and his knowledge of all of the subtleties of various categories. Some of his co-workers referred to him as a \u201crock star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of the educational nature of this blog, I encourage you to seek out his work online. You\u2019ll learn tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond his professional life, Justin was known as a wonderful father and as someone dedicated to serving others and improving everything he was involved with. To paraphrase the eulogy his father (my Uncle Joe) wrote for today\u2019s service, God is likely right now putting Justin to work to make Heaven a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Justin, you were always an inspiration and your legacy will live on in the family and the profession that we shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been in disbelief since receiving the phone call last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Purchasing &amp; Supply Management Loses A Guru - 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\/purchasing-supply-management-loses-a-guru\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Purchasing &amp; 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