BRIDGEi2i welcomes SCM & Procurement Analytics expert Rick Van Fleet to its Board of Advisors

May 8, 2014 - PRLog -- Rick Van Fleet is a senior Supply Chain and Procurement executive with extensive experience in utilizing data, analytics solutions and predictive modeling to generate actionable insights, and deliver sustainable supply chain efficiencies and savings to the business.  Rick will guide the BRIDGEi2i team in the development and go to market strategy for Supply Chain and Procurement analytics solutions.

“BRIDGEi2i has been seeing an increasing traction for analytics applications in the Supply Chain Management & Procurement domain. In 2013, BRIDGEi2i’s Procurement Analytics capabilities were featured in Nasscom & Crisil’s 2013 Big Data report (http://www.crisil.com/global-offshoring/gra-nasscom-jun2013.html)”, said Prithvijit Roy, CEO of BRIDGEi2i. “Rick will work with us in strengthening our solutions in SCM and Procurement. His rich functional experience combined with our team’s technical prowess will help our clients deliver more sustainable business impact in their Supply Chain Operations”, he added.

Rick joined Hewlett Packard as an intern and, after a 34 year career, recently retired as the Vice President of Worldwide Sourcing for the $25B Imaging and Printing Group. As a senior leader at HP, Rick has effectively used strategic analytics to improve decision making in the areas of forecasting, inventory planning, risk management and cost predictability.

He has broad experience leading global organizations in Strategic Sourcing, Sourcing Engineering, Manufacturing Partner Management and Product Development.  Rick has been a long time advocate of Procurement driven innovation and Procurement’s role in product development.  He also has been actively evangelising the use of predictive analytics in Procurement applications.

About BRIDGEi2i

BRIDGEi2i provides Business Analytics Solutions to enterprises globally, enabling them to achieve accelerated business impact harnessing the power of data. These analytics services and technology solutions enable business managers to consume more meaningful information from big data, generate actionable insights from complex business problems and make data driven decisions across pan-enterprise processes to create sustainable business impact.

For more information, contact:

Debleena Roy at debleena.roy@bridgei2i.com