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Network with leading restaurant supply-chain professionals.
The National Restaurant Association’s Supply Chain Expert Exchange is a community of restaurant and hospitality supply chain professionals who deliver information essential to your daily workload and long-term career. Whether you need commodity-buying strategies, distribution insights and challenges, or ideas to manage costs, this group is your window into what fellow restaurant leaders are doing and which strategies work best.
For a full list of the 2020 / 2021 Supply Chain Expert Exchange governing board and advisory council contact list, please click here.
Our Expert Exchange Gatherings are a way for our communities to connect virtually. These are collaborative, informal, operator-led events, and they’re intended to touch on topics that are pressing and relevant to your jobs and to the restaurant industry as a whole. If you attend, you will get the opportunity to meet online with your peers, share, learn, and ask questions in an engaging and safe peer-to-peer environment. At a time when we cannot meet in-person, the need for connection is more important than ever. We are pleased to offer these Gatherings across all our communities on a recurring basis.
Please note the majority of our Gatherings are for National Restaurant Association members only. If you are interested in participating or curious when the next Gathering will be held, you may opt-in here to the community of your choice, and gain access to our upcoming Gatherings.
Supplychainscene.org connects the foodservice supply chain community with the latest news and information on best practices, industry events and job opportunities. It is a service of the National Restaurant Association’s Supply Chain Expert Exchange.
Along with providing an exclusive supply chain website, Supply Chain Scene sends Food for Thought, a curated weekly email. Sign up for Food for Thought today.
Contact Supply Chain Program Director, Lo Mittelbronn at lmittelbronn@restaurant.org for more information.
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Anissa Mandell Chance Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Focus Brands
David Cox President ARCOP, Inc. (Arby's Supply Chain Cooperative)
Dean Gordon Chief Supply Chain Officer Jack in the Box, Inc.
Sam Khoury President & Operating Partner Next Stage Partners / CIC Partners
Kristi Kingery VP, Supply Chain & Strategic Initiatives Tropical Smoothie Café
Charlie Lousignont (Chairman Emeritus) Senior Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer Brinker International
Beth Medford (Vice Chairman) Sr. Director, DTT Shared Platforms Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Carl Mount Senior Vice President, Logistics & United States Retail Supply Chain Starbucks Coffee Company
Evan S. Nash Director, Purchasing Johnson and Wales University
Steve Pattison (Treasurer) Chief Financial Officer, Risk Officer & Vice President, Distribution & Logistics Restaurant Services, Inc. (RSI)
Krista Pohlman Vice President, Program Management Wendy’s Quality Supply Chain Co-op, Inc.
Matthew Riddleberger (Chairman) Vice President, Supply Chain Services Firehouse of America, LLC
Mark C. Smith (Secretary) Chief Procurement Officer Centralized Supply Chain Services, LLC
Michelle Trout Senior Director, Indirect Materials Brinker International
Rif W. Wiguna Vice President, Supply Chain Management Panda Restaurant Group, Inc.
John Barone President Market Vision, Inc.
Ron Cegnar President CEO Partners
Greg Keller Senior Vice President, National Sales Sysco & President, SYGMA The SYGMA Network and Sysco Corporation
James Kennedy Senior Executive Director, Restaurant COE P & G Professional
Joyce Mazero Shareholder Polsinelli PC
Jerry Murphy Vice President, Foodservice Division S&D Coffee & Tea