Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 26, 1999
ALAN J. DABBIERE is the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Manhattan Associates, Inc., the world's leading provider of consumer
supply chain execution systems. Since Manhattan Associates' initial
public offering in 1998, he also served as Chairman of the board of
directors. Mr. Dabbiere was a consultant for Kurt Salmon Associates, a
management consulting firm specializing in the consumer products, retail
and healthcare sectors. While at KSA, he participated in the original
Quick Response pilot studies, which focused on the value of creating a
synchronized supply chain. Concluding from these studies that supply
chain integration broke down between the manufacturers and retailers, he
envisioned the need for a solution that would create a link in the
supply chain. Determined to take the vision to a new level, Mr. Dabbiere
and four partners formed Manhattan Associates and developed the
company's core product, PkMS'. In 1995, as the company's market share
grew, Mr. Dabbiere moved the company and its 25 employees to Atlanta, GA
a city with strong infrastructure, excellent transportation and some of
the most talented technology resources in the nation. Today, with more
than 600 dedicated employees, he continues to be the driving force
behind the world's leading supply chain execution system for consumer
markets, with a client list representing $200 billion of product
shipments through the consumer products supply chain. Mr. Dabbiere was a
finalist in the Technology Division of Ernst and Young's 1998 Southeast
Area Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He frequently speaks at business
events on supply chain integration and business process synchronization.
As a result of Mr. Dabbiere's dynamic leadership in growing the company,
he and Manhattan Associates appeared in the 'Top Technology' listings in
Forbes ASAP (October 5, 1998) and INC. Magazine's list of the 500
fastest-growing private companies in both 1996 and 1997. In November
1998, The Wall Street Journal, Southeast Edition, highlighted the
company's commitment to furthering education in technology through its
partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology and its innovative and
successful approach to employee recruiting at this institution. Mr.
Dabbiere received both his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and his M.B.A.
from Indiana University. Currently, he is an active member of the
Council of Logistics Management, the Material Handling Industry of
America, and the American Apparel Manufacturers Association's
Information Systems Committee. As a community leader, he is a member of
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, supports the Woodruff Arts Center in
Atlanta and has endowed a chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mr. Dabbiere is also a member of the Alumni Advisory Board of the School
of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
and the Advisory Board of Emory University's Roberto C. Goizueta
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