Bob Sanders has more than 15 years of experience advising senior executives across a range of corporate functions, including: supply chain, operations, business development, and corporate finance; and has done so in North America, EMEA and APAC.

While at Carlisle FoodService., Mr. Sanders developed and led the company’s strategic plan and process to integrate the Sales, Inventory, and Operations functions. As manager of the forecasting team, he led the transformation to a statistically-focused demand planning process. Mr. Sanders also developed the firm’s operational reporting process, which includes weekly and daily scorecards focused on sales, shipments, fill rates, and available to promise accuracy.

During his time at CEB now Gartner, he worked directly with Fortune 500 executives, to identify and implement best demonstrated practices. In addition, Mr. Sanders managed an international team of research associates and helped to create the Finance Quantitative Analysis team. He has experience creating and administrating surveys and synthesizing results for use in best practices publications and implementation.

Mr. Sanders has an MBA from Penn State University and a BA from Union College, where he majored in Managerial Economics, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.