Bob Parker spent twenty-five years managing purchasing, transportation, materials and facilities functions at Ford Motor Company and International Harvester. His experience includes several years at officer level and six years stationed in Europe and the Far East. During 1996, Bob, Mike Doyle, and Jim Myers co-founded the National Initiative for Supply Chain Integration (NISCI), a trade association to whom supply chains can bring real-world problems as they work together to improve their collective performance. Bob earned a B. Sci. from the Univ. of Nebraska, an MBA from the Univ. of Detroit, and diplomas from the M.I.T. Sloan School Senior Executive Program and from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply in Cambridge, England. He is a long-time member of the National Association of Purchasing Management whose Ethical Standards Committee he launched and chaired for six years. He is an active former trustee of a Chicago-area hospital, past President of the Chicago Regional Purchasing Council, and was a long-time board member and supporter of local and national Junior Achievement.

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 Achieving Supply Chain Excellence by Balancing the Economics of Production with the Economics of Cooperation
Technology has done much to make supply chain initiatives possible and successful, yet technology alone is not enough. A group of forward thinking and influential companies formed the National Initiative for Supply Chain Integration ( NISCI ) to use cooperation to beneficially impact the operations of members. NISCI has the potential to act as a hub ­ giving businesses the opportunity to establish synchronized supply chain strategies that will be greater than the sum of the parts.
Ascet Volume 1, April 15, 1999