Medal works
13 September 2012
Alison Parker, alloys and metals buyer at steel producer Avesta Sheffield, knows the importance of keeping suppliers on side. This year’s winner of CIPS’s Hart medal tells Helen Riley how she helps to manage the firm’s lean supply chain
The heat is intense. Huge vats of molten metal tilt to pour out their white-hot contents, ready to cool down before being rolled out and shipped around the globe. The heat and noise are overwhelming as the fully computerised 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week operation continues relentlessly.
Into one of the biggest stainless steel works in the world, in...