Leading Edge Group/UCC Lean Supply Chain Management (SCM) Project Receives Gold Award Nomination

Online, January 23, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Leading Edge Group, the foremost international provider of change management and continuous improvement programmes partnered with University College Cork in 2004 to develop market-responsive Lean Supply Chain Management Green Belt and Black Belt programmes. Last week it was announced that student Eoin Broderick has been nominated for a Gold Award within PepsiCo Worldwide Flavours (PWF) for his Lean SCM Green Belt Project.

Eoin Broderick who is currently participating in the UCC/ Leading Edge Group Postgraduate Diploma / Masters in Supply Chain Management (Lean SCM Black Belt) is Inventory Manager with PepsiCo Worldwide Flavours. Eoin supported by his in-house project team undertook his Lean SCM Green Belt Project on the topic of Pallet usage. This has delivered over $100,000 annual savings, resulting in the project team been nominated for this Gold Award. The nomination is in recognition of the team's outstanding accomplishments in the category of 'Continuous Improvement (Cost, Quality, Service, H & S, Env etc)', demonstrating clearly exceptional performance. The award is the highest recognition within PepsiCo Worldwide Flavours for employees proactively achieving cost savings outside of their day-to-day task.

Referring to the nomination, Eoin wished to thank Dr. Seamus O'Reilly and the Green Belt Tutor Joe O'Callaghan of the Leading Edge Group for the structure and academic learning's that made this project feasible.

"I am delighted to see Eoin leverage the practical assignment part of his Green Belt learning into an impressive outcome for his organisation. I applaud PWF for acknowledging Eoin and the team that drove the improvement. It shows what can be achieved when one puts what you have learned into practice!" Joe O'Callaghan, Green Belt Tutor, Leading Edge Group.

The awards will be announced on December 22nd 2012.
Leading Edge Group would like to congratulate Eoin and wish him the best at the awards announcements on the 22nd December.
For more information about lean training, please visit leading edge website http://www.leadingedgegroup.com