{"id":3204,"date":"2012-08-23T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2012\/08\/23\/the-nlpa-dedicated-member-of-the-month-for-august-2012-is\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T03:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:58:34","slug":"the-nlpa-dedicated-member-of-month-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/the-nlpa-dedicated-member-of-month-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The NLPA Dedicated Member of the Month for August 2012 Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every month, the Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA) recognizes a purchasing professional who has made impressive progress in learning more about his\/her field. We are excited to announce that the NLPA Dedicated Member of the Month for August 2012 is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"left\">\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><b>\u00a0Thomas Purath, <\/b>an Operations Manager in Germany.\u00a0 In July, Thomas completed all six of the Senior Professional in Supply Management<sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">\u00ae<\/span><\/sup> Program courses!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201cI\u2019ve been working in several management positions in marketing, sales and operations for 15 years. In my latest position, I was responsible for operations at Philips Consumer Lighting in the German, Swiss and Austrian market. For further career development, I was looking for condensed training material on strategic purchasing that could be \u201cdigested\u201d within a manageable time frame. Finally, I selected the SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Program, because it was perfectly sized for that purpose. It gives a nice and handy framework even for experienced supply chain professionals who frequently got in touch with purchasing as an interface but had little experience in conducting the function by themselves\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Next Level Purchasing and the procurement community around the world congratulate Thomas and his dedication to having a more successful purchasing career!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/creaturefacts.com\/purchase-gabapentin-online\/\">creaturefacts.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every month, the Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA) recognizes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","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 - 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