PRYSMIAN GROUP
characterized by the ability to offer a comprehensive and innovative product portfolio , that can meet a wide variety of market demands such as energy & infrastructure ( including power distribution and trade & installers ) and industrial & network components ( including specialties and OEM , Oil and Gas , Elevators , Automotive and Network Components ). Finally , the Telecom operating segment makes cable systems and connectivity products used in telecommunication networks . The product portfolio includes optical fiber , optical cables , connectivity components and accessories , OPGW ( Optical Ground Wire ) and copper cables .
The years since the creation of Prysmian Group have been a time of consolidation and gradual migration to the new brand , while carefully nurturing its historic loyalties . Brian Schulties , VP for Procurement , whose office is located at the North America headquarters at Lexington , South Carolina , is responsible for the supply chain to the 13 plants serving the telecommunications and energy markets across Canada , the USA and Mexico as well as fiber optic manufacturing facilities covering 1.5 million square feet ( including the only co-located fiber and cable facility in North America ). Three directors that report to him , one responsible for raw materials , one for base metals and one for non-raw or ‘ indirect ’ material . This pattern being reproduced at HQ level and in each region , EMEA , Asia / Pacific ( APAC ) and South America , his is as much a global as a regional role , he says : “ We are structured as a matrix organization . Many of the things we do are groupaligned . Much of the activity we do is managing global commodities .” For this reason , he works as closely with the group ’ s CPO in Milan as with the CEO of the American business .
Schulties came into his present role one year prior to the merger , so he has been involved with every step along the procurement evolution of the last six years – and it ’ s not been without pain , he admits . However despite having had 17 years working in procurement in the
38 April 2017