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Jason Allukian

Senior Director at GEP

Jason is responsible for managing large scale strategic sourcing and supply chain projects in the energy and utility sectors.  His areas of concentration include: supply chain transformation; strategic sourcing; procurement; capital project strategy and sourcing; EPC contracting strategy and sourcing; operations and maintenance strategy and sourcing; negotiations; category management; contract execution; change management; supplier management; total cost of ownership; benchmarking; spend analysis; cost modeling & forecasting; business process reengineering.  Jason is experienced in providing value-driven supply chain/strategic sourcing/operations recommendations that led to cost savings, process efficiencies, and quality and safety improvements for numerous billion and multimillion-dollar capital and O&M projects.

Jason has a mechanical engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and previously worked at Schlumberger and PowerAdvocate. 

Sessions

 

Workshop

Why Does Procurement Fail in The Utility Sector? A Solution-Building Workshop

Presenters:

Jason Allukian, Senior Director at GEP
Micah Sze, Director at GEP

As a heavily regulated industry, utility procurement departments and their supply chains haven’t evolved at the pace of Corporate America. But in the time of COVID, is this still the case? In this workshop, we will walk through the history of the utility procurement organization and typical business models and then discuss opportunities for evolving and modernizing procurement. In the workshop, attendees will break into smaller groups to join in a discussion over lessons learned and outline opportunities for evolution within their own organizations.