Patricia E. Moody CMC

Author, agent, book developer and editor, management consultant

REVIEWS:

A business book that's entertaining, offbeat, plus need to know. That's an unbeatable combination. The Big Squeeze: Ten Ways to Cut Your Spend 10% Right Now! is for anybody who wants to be a corporate hero. Author Patricia Moody provides everything but a moneyback guarantee. And she'd be safe in doing that. The big Squeeze is a big winner.
Jack O'Connor, Publishing Director Emeritus, Purchasing Magazine

Patricia Moody presents a memorable story filled with powerful and proven approaches for companies to leverage their spend and generate cash to drive profits and growth. At Waste Management, our procurement team proved that supply management can turnaround a company and return it to profitability and growth.
David P. Steiner, Chief Executive Officer, Waste Management, Inc.

A must read for every C level executive, and a must do for every Supply Management practitioner. Moody has hit the proverbial nail on the head with this steamy business novel. The Big Squeeze delivers practical supply management concepts in a storybook fashion, and it’s loaded with the stuff business people deal with - corporate pressures, politics, inappropriate relationships, and even blackmail - all intertwined with the important what to do and how to do it of strategic cost management. This book will get distributed up, down, and across my organization. If there were a recipe book for cost management, this would be it. Ka-Ching!
Tim Larson,Vice President Purchasing, Michael Foods, Inc.

You'll chuckle at the send up of corporate life in the opening chapters; you'll get your money's worth many times over in the second half: Several year's worth of supply management ideas to implement, and from the leading practitioners in the field. Even seasoned experts will come away with at least one new idea.
Robert W. "Doc" Hall, Editor-in-Chief, Target
Association for Manufacturing Excellence

A Lean Purchasing Tutorial , wrapped in a novel reflecting today’s workplace,that provides the reader with a practical understanding of Supply Chain Management.
Jack Healy, Director, Manufacturing Extension Partnership

As usual with P. Moody's titles, The Big Squeeze adds IQ points to any manufacturing reader in purchasing/supply chain management. And no one else writing for the industry today comes close to her ability to recreate what it's like working in the 21st century in America (Yes, Paris Hilton is in there!) with humor ---her definition of "heijunka box" is to die for. And "the earth moves" for a particular set of lovers, twice, I believe I counted. Yes, follow her rules for taking cost out of the SCM process instantly, and enjoy her breakthrough in business writing that, in addition to the novella with colorful characters sorting out how to adapt to global competition, includes blogs from leading corporate SCM masters tipping their hands.
Sherrie Ford, Chairman of the Board and Executive VP, Culture
Power Partners, Inc. (distribution transformers), and Principal, Change Partners, LLC

The real world doesn't unfold like bullet points in a consultant's Powerpoint slide. Patricia Moody's fictional portrayal of United Manufacturing lampoons many of the organizational, conceptual and human
failings that scuttle many of today's operational improvement initiatives. Her strategic sourcing suggestions offer guidance to executives who want to
attack, and eliminate, excess costs in the supply chain.
David Drickhamer, Editor-in-Chief, Material Handling Management

Drawing on the collective brainpower of hundreds of executives via an internet blog, Tricia Moody has written a highly-entertaining book any business leader who wants to cut waste and drop money to the bottom line right now will find invaluable. Bravo!"
Dave Nelson, former Sr VP of Purchasing and member of the Board of Directors, Honda of America Mfg., VP Worldwide Supply Management, Deere, former President and Chairman of ISM (Institute for Supply Management), VP of Global Supply Management, Delphi

Tricia Moody set up a blog for executives across the globe to share ideas, and from their input has assembled ten ways to immediately improve bottom line performance. In The Big Squeeze, she has created a combination of entertainment and reference that talks with us, not at us.
Dick Morley, Chairman, National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS)

This book provides 10 great innovative solutions of which at least 3 - 4 would behelpful in solving almost any procurement issue facing a company today. This is a great read for people looking for 10 proven ways that can lower the third party spend in your organization.
Bill L. Knittle, Global Procurement Director, BP (formerly British Petroleum)

Trish Moody shows how individual people - with their own needs and wants - affect how a company tries to compete with traditional andglobal rivals. "Follow the Money" was the advice of Deep Throat, the Watergate informant; it would be Moody's as well. Read this book if you want to separate facts from fads to survive in the new global community.
Tom Slaight, Vice President, A. T. Kearney Procurement Solutions


























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