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Mark Smith
2015 Procurement
Chief
Officer
Team
Dustin Pittman
Chief Financial
approach than used in the past to buy tri-tips. As a way Officer
to add incremental value to Membership, Dustin Pittman,
our Chief Financial Officer, developed an optional financing
program that allowed Members to finance the grill
purchases through a distributor surcharge. One-third of the
system opted to participate in this new program.
As our CSCS and Apple Co-op Chairman of the Board, David Paul Allegri
Paradise, points out in his letter to Membership, the CSCS Vice President
team delivered other strong results on your behalf in Logistics
2015. In spite of comping over very favorable meat pricing
versus the market the prior year, Mark Smith and the
Procurement team held commodity food cost increases to
1.9%. Paul Allegri and the Logistics team delivered another
strong year in distribution and freight management. Chris
McNutt’s Brand Program Management team managed
the supply aspects of every test, promotion, and menu Don Ikemoto
change. And finally, under the direction of Dustin Pittman,
the Administration team achieved our seventh consecutive Vice President
clean third-party audit, operated CSCS within the approved Brand Program
Management,
budget, and continued to implement enhancements to our IHOP
technology platforms that will deliver value to Members for
years to come.
In September 2015, we again celebrated our Member
Focused company value by conducting Member Maniac Mary Hempfling
Week, a week where we attempt to contact every Member
of the Apple and Pancake Supply Chain Co-ops to find Senior Director
out how we can improve and add greater value. In other Procurement
words, we find out how we can do more to ensure we
are helping create a competitive advantage for you. Our
Member satisfaction scores improved for the fourth year
in a row from a 4.56 in 2014 to 4.63 in 2015. We received
a tremendous amount of feedback that will aid us in
continuing to get better.
Chris McNutt
Vice President
Brand Program
Management,
Applebee's
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