Professor Ananth Iyer Project Manager: Mary Pilotte Research Assistants: Lukas Morawski (MBA 2009), Mark Wolfred (MBA 2010) and Lindsey Weiss (BS Mgmt. 2010)

Making connections for industry growth is a key focus for Conexus Indiana and for the DCMME/GSCMI Centers at Krannert School of Management. Conexus Indiana was looking for more tools to assist in the launch of their “Connector Services” program aimed at driving economic growth in the advanced manufacturing, transportation, distribution and logistics industries across the state.

Conexus Indiana through partnership and collaborative activities with Purdue’s Technical Assistance Program (TAP) and the DCMME/GSCMI team, initiated a project focused on creating recommendations for a web-based supplier database which would hopefully help to create networking opportunities for Hoosier businesses. The goal of the project was three fold:

• Identify and formulate key descriptions of individual Indiana manufacturing firm’s capabilities that allow OEM (original equipment manufacturer) procurement managers to easily and rapidly identify readily available assets across the state.
  
• Assess firm’s willingness to share information and participate in populating a database site, for the purpose of increasing the procurement effectiveness for OEMs across Indiana.
  
• Review existing databases capable of or already hosting this type of information, bring to bear best practices and facilitate advisory team recommendations from the research.
  

This project provided an insider’s view of essential information necessary to fuel supply chain opportunities across industries and the state. The Centers continue to look for ways key learnings from this engagement can assist the state in its economic recovery going forward.

Thank you CONEXUS Indiana!