Sandor appointed Hoagland-Metzler
Endowed Professor of Practice

Joseph Sandor

Former President and CEO of Creative Procurement Strategies Joseph Sandor was recently appointed the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor of Practice in Supply Management at the Broad School. The endowment was initiated by Broad School alumnus Richard J. Metzler, managing director of Trove Partners LLC, to honor his former teacher, Professor Emeritus John H. Hoagland. (For more about how and why this endowment was created, visit http://www.bus.msu.edu/
information/news.cfm?newsid=356.)

Prior to forming Creative Procurement Strategies (CPS), where he advised clients such as Harley-Davidson, Rolls-Royce, Whirlpool, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, ConAgra and Sara Lee, Sandor was CPO and director of Corporate Purchasing and Logistics for the Sara Lee Corporation for 15 years, responsible for nearly $12 billion in annual purchases. This followed positions at Beatrice, NL Industries and General Motors.

Sandor has expertise in the areas of cost prevention/reduction, team building, strategic supplier alliance formation, systems development, logistics optimization, shared services and consolidated procurement. He earned a BA from the University of Miami and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) and Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) credentials, and he was an adjunct professor at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

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