Kwok, chairman of a department store chain and vice president of the Hong Kong Olympic Committee, is on a mission.
Macy's prices some of its specials at or below cost to drive traffic, said Martine Reardon, the chain's executive vice president of marketing and advertising.
Details of that plan are still evolving, said Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation, a U.S. trade group.
But factoring in cash discounts for the beer, snacks and other items sold inside the stores is "a lot more complicated, " partly because of the range of merchandise, says Fran Duskiewicz senior executive vice president of the chain.
In 2007, after leading the auto maker's U.K. supply-chain management, he was named a global senior vice president in charge of emerging markets, including China.
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
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"We've cleaned up the supply chain, " says Carl Redfield, Cisco's senior vice president for manufacturing.
Prior to his current role, he was Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Supply Chain Officer.
"It's about moving goods and replenishment and the ability to plan, " says Eric Nilsson , a vice president at Infor , a consultancy specializing in supply chain management.
Rick Hendrie, senior vice president of marketing for Uno's, says the chain is doing its best to make sure people have choices.
Eduardo Castro-Wright, a vice chairman who runs Wal-Mart's flagship store chain in the U.S., is trying to take things to a new level, says retail analyst Bill Dreher of Deutsche Securities.
In 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations.
Buyers, district managers and vice presidents would review all aspects of the business, from the supply chain to marketing and customer service.
"There is a massive gap between where we are and where we could be, " says Dr. Brent James, a vice president at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, a big hospital chain that was one of the first to focus on systemic quality improvements.
"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
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