News Article

Supply chain management has become big business in North Carolina. The state’s numerous transportation resources – ports, multiple Interstate highways, three international airports and extensive rail lines – make transporting, distributing and storing materials and finished goods a natural business in the Tar Heel State.
Womble Carlyle and Business North Carolina magazine hosted a Dec. 5 roundtable discussion in the firm’s Greensboro office on the challenges and promises of supply chain management, featuring some of the state’s most knowledgeable leaders in the field.

Womble Carlyle attorney Greg Chabon, a leader of the firm’s Supply Chain Management Team, represented the firm in the discussion.
Also participating in the roundtable were:

• Paul Clayton, Vice President of Global Logistics for GlaxoSmithKline;
  
• Yom Eagar, Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Port Authority;
  
• Tim Martin, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.;
  
• Greg Plemmons, Vice President of Old Dominion Global.
  
• Arthur Murray, Senior Editor of Business North Carolina, moderated the discussion.

This is the third of four roundtable discussions held by Womble Carlyle and Business North Carolina, each focusing on a different topic of interest to the state’s business leaders. The first two roundtables dealt with Life Sciences and Economic Development respectively.
Topics of discussion at the Supply Chain Management Roundtable included:

• The trend of organizing supply chain management efforts around a single senior executive;
  
• The role North Carolina’s colleges and universities can play in promoting the supply chain management sector;
  
• What vendors and service providers need to know to be better teammates in supply chain management;
  
• What the state can do to help companies in these efforts.

Reprints of the article will be available following publication. For more information, contact Greg Chabon at (336) 574-8068 or email.
Womble Carlyle Supply Chain Management Team   
An edited version of the conversation will appear in the March 2007 issue of Business North Carolina.