H2O Supply Opportunist
You're only as strong as your weakest link, or so the saying goes, and Bruce Beavis, vice president of strategic sourcing for US Filter, is maximizing opportunity, making sure his company's supply chain is made of only the strongest, most efficient...
[From iSource Business, May 2001] It's a tale of startling growth: two hundred acquisitions in eight years. Purchased by the industry's largest global player in 1999. A total of $4.5 billion in revenues.
As whirlwind as it seems, that's the story of Palm Springs, Calif.-based US Filter, which has grown from a tiny water equipment manufacturer to a leading provider of water and wastewater treatment systems and services, doing everything from supplying bottled water to treating hazardous waste. In 1999, when the company was bought by Vivendi Water, it became the North American operating unit of the Paris-based water company giant.
Heading up strategic sourcing for the operation is Bruce Beavis, vice president of strategic sourcing. His secret weapon: the use of e-technology to turn his supply chain into a lean, mean machine
