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Amber Salley
Sr Director Analyst
Amber Salley is a Senior Research Director, in the Strategy and Planning Technology team. Amber's research focus covers supply chain planning technologies and is cross-industry. She is responsible for guiding supply chain leaders through SCP technology roadmap development and provider selection.
Previous experience
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Salley held positions as a management consultant. Her first management consulting role was with Booz & Co.(now Strategy&), where she was aligned with the firm's IT strategy groups. She then joined Accenture's Supply Chain Planning Services group. She has worked with clients in many industries, including CPG, retail, healthcare, business equipment and chemical. Her management consulting project experience includes large-scale cost and culture transformations, business process re-engineering, shared-services development, and large-scale ERP implementations. She has also worked within IBM's integrated supply chain organization, where she provided technical support to the laptop and desktop manufacturing process.
Professional background
Booz & Co., Associate, 2 years
Accenture, Consultant, 2 years
IBM, Engineer/Scientist of Manufacturing, 5 years
Areas of coverage
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Supply Chain Planning Transformation
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Supply Chain Strategy, Alignment and Execution
Education
M.B.A., Economics, Accounting, Managerial & Organizational Behavior, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
B.S.B.A., Supply Chain Management and Information Technology, Duquesne University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
How to achieve best practices in supply chain planning
How to select supply chain planning technologies
Best practices to implement supply chain planning technologies
Trends in supply chain planning technologies
How to select system integrators to support supply chain planning technologies