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Dr. Sanders is an internationally recognized thought leader and expert in forecasting, predictive analytics, risk management and supply chain management. Her expertise is identifying best practices in forecasting, developing an enterprise technology strategy, digital transformation, understanding systems and creating resilient supply chains. Throughout her career Dr. Sanders has successfully held a range of leadership roles in both academic and professional organizations, is an award winning teacher and scholar, has served on numerous executive boards, and is a frequently called upon keynote speaker.
Dr. Sanders is author of seven books, most recently The Humachine: Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise (Routledge, 2020), which has won numerous awards including Top Innovation Books of 2020 and shortlisted for Outstanding Book Category 2019 by Taylor & Francis. She is also author of Supply Chain Management: A Global Perspective in its 3rd edition (Wiley), and Operations Management, going into the 8th edition, and are the leading textbooks on operations and supply chain management.
She is highly published in leading scholarly journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Decision Sciences Journal, California Management Review, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Journal and countless others. Her California Management Review paper titled “How to Use Big Data to Drive Your Supply Chain,” was a Top 10 most downloaded paper for 2017 and listed as a “must read. She was ranked in the top 8 percent of individuals in the field of operations management from a pool of 738 by a study of research productivity in U.S. business schools and was ranked as the world’s top 2% of scientists by a 2020 Stanford study.
She is a lifetime Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, has served on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and is immediate Past-President of the Production Operations Management Society (POMS), an organization that in 2020 created an award in her name to acknowledge her contribution. She is a frequent keynote speaker, has consulted with numerous Fortune 100 companies, and serves on the Board of Economic Advisors of the Association of Industries of Massachusetts (AIM).
Dr. Sanders is the Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Previously she served as the Iacocca Chair at Lehigh University and as the West Chair and Professor of Supply Chain Management the M.J. Neeley School of Business, TCU, where she was also Research Director of the Supply and Value Chain Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Logistics, and an MBA, from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.