Read the assigned article from this week’s readings. Consider yourself as a project manager at American Airlines, and John MacLean is your project sponsor. Describe some example projects you could be the leader for, and how an efficient supply chain process can support the profitability of American Airlines. Submit a two –to - three pages, APA style paper. Use concepts from the text for purchasing links to profitability and your knowledge of project management to support your views.
the article:
John MacLean, Supply Chain Manager of the Year
"How would John approach this?"
That thought frequently goes through the mind of Brent Shinall, vice president of global supply chain at Houston-based Helix Energy Solutions Group, he says, when he confronts particularly perplexing supply chain situations.
He is talking about John MacLean, vice president of purchasing and transportation at American Airlines, and Purchasing's 2009 Supply Chain Manager of the Year.
Shinall's statement is perhaps the ultimate sign of respect. And, its roots trace back to the nine years he worked for MacLean at American. Shinall held four different management positions under MacLean between 1994 and 2003, including managing director of aircraft purchasing. In that latter position, he met with MacLean once a week to discuss pressing issues.
"He was a master at getting me to think through a problem," Shinall says. "He would hand me a white-board marker and at the end of the meting the board would be filled with my thoughts."