{"id":3041,"date":"2020-07-24T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=3041"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:09:32","slug":"pierre-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/speaker\/pierre-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Pierre Mitchell<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3193 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/p_mitchell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Mitchell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/p_mitchell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/p_mitchell-85x85.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Pierre leads practitioner research, content, and advisory services for Spend Matters. \u00a0Pierre has 30 years of procurement, supply chain, and technology experience, and is a recognized procurement expert, specializing in advanced supply processes, practices, metrics, and enabling tools and services.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre was VP of Supply Management research at AMR Research (now part of Gartner Group), and the first procurement technology &#8220;industry analyst&#8221;, where he provided trusted counsel to procurement executives, business leadership, IT, and solution providers (and where he coined the term \u201cguided buying\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, he led procurement research at The Hackett Group, where he helped establish the gold standard in membership-based procurement research and advisory services. \u00a0He has led numerous operations and systems transformations at Fortune 500 organizations, as a management consultant, and has also held industry positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manufacturing project manager at The Timberland Company,<\/li>\n<li>Materials Manager at Krupp Companies,<\/li>\n<li>Engineer at EG&amp;G Torque Systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He holds an engineering undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Mitchell Pierre leads practitioner research, content, and advisory services for Spend Matters. \u00a0Pierre has 30 years of procurement, supply chain, and technology experience, and is a recognized procurement expert, specializing in advanced supply processes, practices, metrics, and enabling tools&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"location":[],"speaker-tags":[],"speaker-category":[],"class_list":["post-3041","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3041\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-tags?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-category?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}