Brad Vickery

Spend and Rebate Forecasting

Author: Brad Vickery

The new Spend and Rebate Forecasting process implemented this year is in its final quarter of review and input by our Plant Forecasters.  This estimated supplier spend for Q4 will be used to calculate the year-end rebate amounts by supplier and member.  Looking back, I was cautiously optimistic as DevonWay was developing the software system...

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Executive Spotlight – December 2020

Author: Brad Vickery

Remember the Material Cost Reduction (MCR) project?  Well I am happy to report MCR is alive and well at our member stations.  I remember a face-to-face meeting in year one of the project back in 2017 and Tim Rausch, Susquehanna CNO and USA BOD chairman, asked me how we are planning to institutionalize the tools...

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Parts Quality Initiative (PQI) Project Plan Summary

Author: Brad Vickery

The Parts Quality Initiative (PQI) provided by Exelon PowerLabs (EPL) has been available to the industry for the past 16 years.  Development of the USA project plan is for each of the members to asses their parts risk and determine if they should proceed with identification and testing of critical parts to prevent parts quality...

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USA 2019 Spend and Savings Summary

Author: Brad Vickery

USA had another great year in 2019.  Thanks to our members and suppliers, savings for our members continues to be strong with the overall Return on Investment (ROI) being 33.96 with an average member benefit of $5.4M.         Focus on USA Supply Chain Programs Members saved $34.8M, an increase of $3.4M over...

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MCR Project Update

Author: Brad Vickery

MCR ended 2018 with total project to date savings of $16.1M with a return on investment (ROI) of 40.62. Looking ahead to 2019 the team agreed to work on the following projects and provide on-going savings to our members. Continuous identification of and pursuit of long term project savings opportunities which have the biggest potential...

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