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Norman Katz has secured a top spot as one of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Supply Chain 2020.
Even the largest companies find managing vendors a daunting task. If you get it wrong then you risk inadvertently penalizing potentially valuable suppliers with misguided, overly bureaucratic or costly processes. Worse the burdens placed on the vendors backfires on the customer entity itself as the customer is subjected to the increased operational costs of managing the ramifications of the ill-conceived or poorly implemented requirement through the vendor community, driving up its own operational costs and increasing frustrations for all, straining the customer-vendor relationship. Effective compliance programs balance the requirements with the capabilities of their suppliers, striving to educate instead of just inform. A well-run program should help vendors self-implement and control costs, not force vendors to rely on constant communication and increase costs for all trading partners involved.
Successful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance explains the technical, process and cultural elements that go into a successful compliance program. Norman Katz exposes the weaknesses in traditional programs and identifies the characteristics of well-managed programs that foster beneficial trading partner relationships. He shows how a well-executed vendor compliance program can control and decrease costs by reducing disruptions throughout the supply chain, from the distribution center to the data center to the corporate office.
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Successful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance
About the author
The author, Norman A. Katz, is a senior business and technology leader with a history of architecting and delivering best-in-class enterprise solutions for global companies that transform and strengthen the full spectrum of financial and supply chain operations. Norman accelerates profit and loss performance via technical and business process innovation. He collaborates with C-level leaders to introduce and adopt new ways of thinking and working, generating millions of dollars in top-line revenue performance. Norman is widely recognized in both technical and business circles for a proven ability to bridge complex business requirements with seamless, accessible solutions. He is a frequent presenter at global conferences on best practices and emerging trends.
Norman is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Controls Specialist, and a Microsoft Office specialist. Norman holds a Florida Private Investigator license, is a Florida notary public, and has a certification in corporate governance from Tulane University College of Law. Norman has a bachelor of science in business administration with a major in computer information sciences from the University of Florida.
Norman is the author of two first-of-their-kind exclusive books. Detecting and Reducing Supply Chain Fraud was published in August 2012. Successful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance was published in December 2015. Aside from private sales, both books are available in hundreds of university libraries worldwide.
Norman began his professional career as a programmer and progressed to programmer analyst, business systems analyst, and information technology manager in the first eleven years after graduating from university and before starting his own advisory company, Katzscan Inc., in January 1996. He has experience in a variety of industries, notably consumer products within brick-and-mortar and online retail servicing both B2B and B2C fulfilment, pharmaceutical and medical products, and general manufacturing and distribution.
Norman began fencing in 1993 and started his own fencing club in 2007. He delights in teaching fencing to people of all ages and skill levels; a sport he truly loves participating in himself. Since he was a youngster, the thought of being a swordfighter was something he could only imagine while watching his heroes play out their fantastic fantasy roles on television and on the big screen. And now, every time he dons his fencing uniform, Norman gets to live out his childhood dreams, even way into adulthood; just one of the things, he surmises, that keeps him mentally, spiritually, and physically young. And what a fun time he has doing so!
For more information about Norman and his professional help to companies, please go to: www.katzscan.com
Summary
Successful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance explains the technical, process and cultural elements that go into a successful compliance program. A well-run program should help vendors self-implement and control costs, not force vendors to rely on constant communication and increase costs for all involved. Norman Katz exposes the weaknesses in tradi
