"We're very interested in this product and are seeing how we can implement it in the short or medium term, " says Luis Ortega, the chain's director of environment and engineering.
Two weeks ago, Safeway began training seafood-counter employees to answer customers' sustainability questions, and the company is designing signs based on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch guide explaining which fish are best and why, says Phil Gibson, the chain's group director of seafood.
"Customers will and can use the components business against you to gain the services, " admits Darr Greenhalgh, Arrow's director of supply chain solutions.
"I'm not sure I'd want to do it again, " says Garry Gray, HP's director of supply-chain information systems.
Snaring customers like Hidayath is the goal of Joy Alukkas, 56, founder and managing director of the eponymous jewelry chain.
The first phase of the partnership was to put together bids to supply aircraft components manufactured in China, said Zhang Wei, executive director of the supply-chain management and procurement division of AVIC International Holdings.
Colin Masson, worldwide director for ERP and supply chain, Microsoft: Beyond the direct energy and carbon footprint benefits that can be attained by migrating existing IT to the cloud, it is also a key enabler of sustainable supply chains.
This would help make records portable, says Shivinder Singh, the managing director of Fortis Healthcare, a chain of private hospitals.
"We are providing a platform for business leaders and others concerned with the environment and corporate social responsibility to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, and at the same time securing the efficient delivery of supplies, " said Hau Lee, co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum.
Its handling of the Savile case sparked a chain of events that led to the resignation of director general George Entwistle and a crisis at the top of the corporation.
Counsel for Sgt Nightingale, Simon McKay, said the emails appeared to show the Director of Service Prosecutions consulting the military "chain of command" - the Adjutant General's office - on whether or not to pursue the case against the soldier.
The packaged sandwich chain has also tailored its UK products to the local market, according to its marketing director Mark Palmer.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
Nelson corralled quality director Brent James and pressed him to delve into the unglamorous nitty-gritty of changing the entire hospital chain.
Giovanni Bisignani, the director- general of IATA, the airline industry's trade body, said that securing the supply chain was the first priority in ensuring that cargo was safe to carry.
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