Lynda Jarrett leads the Procure to Claims organization within PSO IT. Her organization has responsibility for Procure-to-Pay functions supporting supply chain operations, including Global Trade, Customs, and Returns. In addition, she manages the SAP integration team. Her organization manages the global buy-sell process, strategic costing for products, all manufacturing (inhouse and outsourced), transportation planning & management, and visibility of all carrier and logistics activity for HP. In this role, her organization runs the systems responsible for $10.9B of component spend, $3.5B of strategic buys, and $20M in savings from SC optimization tied to visibility. Her organization owns multiple systems critical to day-to-day supply chain operations at HP, including Velocity, XI, PI/PO, GTS, eClaims, iCost, GT Nexus, HP Supplier Portal, and WWCOA. She is also the Procure-to- Pay IT tower lead for the Simplify program currently rolling out the new SAP S4 ERP system.
Prior to moving to this role, Lynda was the Director of Information Management Architecture and Analytics. Her team had responsibility for the end-to-end information management strategy, enterprise architecture, new technologies, research and development, and data architecture. She was also responsible for starting and implementing the Advanced Analytics practice within HP IT, which deployed enterprise wide predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions and was considered an industry leader in this field.
Lynda has been with HP since 1997, and originally joined Compaq Computers as a consultant in the Information Services team, working for EDS. Since joining HP she has worked in multiple roles and teams within the IT organization, spanning both front-end and back-end functions. Prior to HP Lynda worked for Elliptus software and held multiple roles as a consultant, writer, and EDI developer.
Lynda attended Texas A&M University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, a Stanford University certification in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and a Master’s in Project Management from George Washington University. She is a certified Customer Advocate and a member of both PMI and Mensa. She currently resides in Houston, Texas. Outside of work, Lynda’s interests include running, reading, travel, water sports, and skiing. In addition, she spends time writing, spending time with family, and is involved in animal advocacy, and other charity work.