Gordy Smouther

Gordy Smouther Supply Chain Maestro

How can executives provide a strategic overview of purchasing and supply chain management as they apply in today’s global marketplace?

How can senior executives increase overall productivity by unleashing synergies inherent in purchasing and supply chain management?

How to enhance executive knowledge and skill in the use of cost management, negotiation and related strategic sourcing tools?

Professor Gordon (Gordy) Smouther leverages his thirty two-years of experience in the energy services industry as well as his background in engineering to deliver a superlative course in supply chain management (SCM) at Rutgers EMBA.

Gordy’s current responsibilities at Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) include development of procurement organization strategies, deployment of procurement technology, the implementation of commodity management and strategic sourcing in the SCM organization.  His previous assignments at PSEG included leading the corporate process redesign and reengineering effort, developing long range strategic business plans for the electric utility, managing field operation offices for both gas and customer operations.

His course is actually a lot more than a conventional SCM course as taught in virtually all other EMBA programs.  Gordy relates SCM to current real-world issues such as ethical, contractual and legal issues faced by purchasing, the role of delivery and technology in meeting specialized customer needs, insourcing/outsourcing and its increasing role in the vast global supply chains today, cost/price analysis, and SCM-related negotiations.

In essence, the conventional SCM course is now transformed into another strategy course, thanks to Prof. Gordy Smouther.  In fact, Rutgers Business School is now a major global SCM due to efforts by our Prof. Lei (profiled on this site too) and Prof. Smouther.

Student view of Prof. Gordy Smouther:

“As a senior executive at a small specialized manufacturing company, I have been hearing all along that in the US, ‘we will live or die’ depending on how well we manage our supply chains and how well we increase productivity.  Examples of champions of this adage abound—the obvious ones being Dell and Walmart.  But till I took Prof. Gordy Smouther’s course, I was not sure, in real, practical terms, how I could actually influence my company to not just live but thrive, by unleashing the power of the supply chain.  This one course may make the difference for us as we battle to maximize our productivity and do well in this global workplace.  Kudos and thanks to Gordy!!”