Lance Saunders is the Jerry & Suzanne Ratledge Professor of Supply Chain Management and Vallett Family Faculty Fellow. Most recently, he was an assistant professor of supply chain management and analytics at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he specialized in teaching operations management. Saunders has published in the International Journal of Logistics Management, the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and more. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and MBA at UT before completing his doctorate at Virginia Tech in 2013.