Crescent Electric Supply Co., East Dubuque, Ill., has selected a group of manufacturers to be recognized in its inaugural Supplier Recognition Program. Winners were determined by a combination of scores earned in a number of operational areas, including financial, inventory, training and logistics. The award presentations were made during Crescent’s National Sales Conference in St. Charles, Illinois on March 10 -14, 2013.
“As a means of managing and strengthening our partnerships with key suppliers we implemented a supplier management report card at the beginning of 2012. Suppliers were grouped into categories and measured against other companies who manufactured similar products,” said Dick Cody, Crescent’s V.P. of supplier management. “We shared this report with our suppliers and showed them how to use the data to strengthen their partnership with us, resulting in increased sales and operating efficiencies for both organizations.”
Crescent’s 2012 Supplier Recognition Program Award Winners are: Overall winner: GE Lighting; Boxes/Fittings/Enclosures: Arlington Industries; Wire/Cable: Cerro Wire; Wiring Devices: Hubbell Wiring Devices; Accessories: Ideal Industries; Lighting Fixtures: Juno Lighting Group/Schneider; PVC: Prime Conduit; Distribution/Control: Schneider Electric; Lamps/Ballast/Lighting Controls: Universal Lighting Technologies; and Steel Conduit: Wheatland Tube.
About the Author
Jim Lucy Blog
Chief Editor
Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.