Amar Singh is President and CEO of Amitive. Amar joined Amitive in April 2007. He brings over 17 years of supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise software experience to the company. Prior to Amitive, Amar was a senior vice president at SAP, with overall product development responsibility for SAP's entire SCM, product life cycle and manufacturing solutions. At SAP, Amar also led the global product management organization and was the general manager of the RFID business unit. Before joining SAP, Amar spent several years in leading management positions at companies such as i2, Procter & Gamble, Warner Lambert, Logictools and Bain & Company. Amar was the founder and CEO of Simplexis, a SCM software company for the public sector. Amar graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, earned a Masters in Operations Research from the University of Waterloo, Canada and completed an MBA at the Harvard Business School. He can be reached at amar.singh@amitive.com.
In the late 1990s, portals and public and private exchanges were introduced amidst much fanfare. From medical equipment to automotive parts, a variety of industries tried to create and roll out their own supplier portal and marketplace solutions. But the majority of exchanges failed; the technical and administrative costs outweighed the benefits of participating. They […]