New England Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition

Jim Lawton, Vice President of Marketing, Open Ratings

Jim Lawton works closely with Open Rating's customer base to ensure that solutions continue to meet organizations' most pressing needs to effectively manage thousands of trading partners. Earlier in his career, he held vice president of marketing positions at Optiant, Inc. and ECnet, Inc.

Lawton draws from more than ten years experience in operations and supply chain management at Hewlett-Packard, where he led an initiative that rapidly achieved profitability and annually saved tens of millions of dollars by reducing inventory and reorganizing supply chain operations.

An inaugural fellow of MIT's prestigious Leaders for Manufacturing program, Lawton earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the School of Engineering. He also holds a bachelor's degree from Tufts University.

About Open Ratings
Open Ratings helps aerospace, industrial and automotive companies pioneer best practices in supply network management. Its supplier intelligence and predictive analytics solutions help these best-in-class companies monitor thousands of trading partners, predict supplier performance problems, and assess root cause and severity of impending issues months before problems actually occur. As supply bases become increasingly complex and global, this new breed of supplier insight consistently drives superior performance by mitigating risk and providing critical early warning of potential instability before it might cause disruption.

2005 Conference
Today's Purchasing Manager as Risk Mitigator: Gaining Insight into Supplier Stability