Nada R. Sanders is an American university professor specializing in forecasting and

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. She is the Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at

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. She is also a research scholar, academic editor,

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book author, keynote speaker, business consultant, and corporate board member. Her forecasts describing the impact of the economic crisis on supply disruptions resulting from the

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received media coverage. Her latest book ''The Humachine'' (co-authored with John D. Wood) explores the influence of

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over world business and culture.''''

Education

Sanders' university degrees include PhD in operations management and logistics from the

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, also an MBA and a BS in mechanical engineering.

Career

Sanders has successively been the ''West Chair'' at the Neely School of Business at

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(2007–2009), ''Iacocca Chair'' of Supply Chain Management at

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(2009–2014), and ''Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management'' at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at

(2014 to present). Her research has centered on topics such as

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methods, management technologies, and resilience of supply chains, her works being commonly cited by subject reviews, and referred as reading in university courses covering these matters. Her research is cited in current Wikipedia entries on

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, Logistics, Operations management.

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, and

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. In 1996, Sanders was ranked among major contributors to the field of

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in the US in preceding years, according to a study from the

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. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences in her specialties- As an institutional executive, she has served as a President of the

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(POMS, 2019), a Fellow and vice-president of

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, a member of the Board of Economic Advisors of the Association of Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), and a member of the Board of Consultants of the

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(IIF). As an editor, Sanders is a member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, among them the

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, the

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, and

Production and Operations Management ''Production and Operations Management'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management. ''Production and Operations Management'' is published by Wiley-Bla ...

. She has also been a co-editor of several special journal issues, including "Big Data Driven Supply Chain Management" (Production and Operations Management'', 2017''), "Big Data Driven Forecasting in Supply Chain Management" (

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, 2017), "Perspectives on Big Data" (Operations Management, 2018), "Sustainable Supply Chains in a Digital Interconnected World," (Journal of Business Logistics'','' 2019), and "Using Interdisciplinary Research to Address Contemporary SCM Problems" (Journal of Business Logistics, 2016).

Works

Papers

Sanders has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals which have been cited over 6,400 times; her most cited papers are: * Cited by 572 Related articles (Oct 2021). * Cited by 536 Related articles (Oct 2021). * Cited by 365 Related articles (Oct 2021). Her most recent articles refer to the impact of

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on business and supply chains: * *

Books

* * * * * * * . Favorably reviewed by Garth Thomas.

Honors

* Fellow, Decision Science Institute (2008) * Named ''Eunice and James L. West Chair and Professor'' in Supply Chain Management, Neeley School of Business,

, (2007–2009) * Carl & Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award in Business & Economics (Leigh University, 2012) * ''Named Iacocca Chair and Professor'' of Supply Chain Management'','' Lehigh University (2009–2014)

References

External links

* Nada R. Sanders' {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanders, Nada Living people Franklin University alumni Northeastern University faculty Ohio State University Fisher College of Business alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics Texas Christian University faculty Lehigh University faculty 21st-century American women