Sherrie Moomey Sherrie Moomey is a Category Manager in Nike’s Global Procurement team. She has spent the last 20 plus years in multiple key roles in the supply chain, ranging from retail and inventory management, to sourcing and strategic planning, process improvement, Sarbanes-Oxley Initiatives and business technology enhancement including automated workflow. Her abilities as a change agent have helped her success as she has identified process and procurement opportunities within the companies she has worked for. Sherrie combines her procurement technical skills and commodity knowledge with her abilities to facilitate cross functional and cross cultural teams; research and assess data; and conceptualize, strategize and create processes and systems. As a Procurement Manager at Nike, Inc., these abilities, and the changes they have produced not only helped her team deliver significant cost savings but they have also helped Nike become a more sustainable company. Sherrie began leveraging her abilities as a change agent to create more sustainable practices in her companies 15 years ago, when she was a senior buyer for a software company, seeking high quality, high post consumer content recycled paper for software documentation. After Sherrie moved to Nike, the need for clarity in the industry over what constituted “environmentally friendly” paper, led her to initiate Nike’s first scorecard to measure different sustainable attributes of paper companies. Her team looked beyond the percentage of recycled content in the paper and the sources of the fiber, the main measures of sustainability at the time, and created a scorecard that measured a variety of sustainable practices, including chlorine free manufacturing processes, and chain of custody for old growth timber. The scorecard allowed Nike business units to evaluate potential paper products in a number of areas, and choose the most sustainable paper products that also met the physical characteristics required by the project. In April 2007, Nike released its corporate responsibility report for FY05-06, which detailed a number of aggressive targets that Nike wants to achieve in the next thirteen years, with the first target in 2011. Targets include reduced CO2 emissions for transportation and travel, climate neutral facilities and travel and environmentally preferred materials in products. Sherrie is currently employing her skills to help Nike achieve these ambitions targets by leading the indirect procurement team in developing metrics for evaluating supplier’s sustainable practices corporately and setting procurement targets aligned with Nike’s corporate targets. The objective is to understand and assess the commitment of Nike indirect suppliers to corporate responsibility, with the intent of aligning with companies share similar values. A pilot of the assessment will begin in March with key current suppliers. Ultimately this assessment tool will be used in the RFX process for all suppliers doing business with Nike. |