Undergraduate Honored For Supply Chain Potential
Undergraduate Honored For Supply Chain Potential
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (April 11 2005)—Tania Santiago, a supply chain and information systems major at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business and a student in the University’s Schreyer Honors College, recently was honored by the R. Gene and Nancy D. Richter Foundation as a high-potential future leader in the procurement field.
Santiago and Melissa Ferrari, also a supply chain and information systems major at the college, were finalists among applicants from 12 schools vying for six R. Gene Richter Scholarships awarded this year. Applicants participated in telephone interviews with procurement executives at Hewlett-Packard and the U.S. Postal Service, and met with Nancy Richter, president of the Richter Foundation.
Along with receiving tuition support, Richter Scholars also are enrolled in a mentoring program and invited to attend the Institute for Supply Management Power Conference in San Antonio, a gathering of chief procurement officers from across the nation.
During his career, Gene Richter led three corporate teams to Purchasing Magazine’s Medal of Professional Excellence. At Black & Decker he fine-tuned strategies of global sourcing, long-term agreements, and centralization of key commodities. At Hewlett-Packard, he worked with a team to develop written sourcing strategies and to negotiate strategic alliances with worldwide leading-edge suppliers. At IBM, his team formed customer solutions procurement, set up a technology convergence office to tap into suppliers' technical know-how, and moved the purchasing process to the Internet. For more, visit www.richterfoundation.org.
The Smeal Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems annually ranks among the best in the nation for undergraduate and MBA education. In the latest survey of graduate and undergraduate programs in business by U.S. News & World Report, Smeal ranked 8th and 5th, respectively.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
