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Wendy Tate

Wendy Tate

McCormick Professor of Supply Chain Management, Ray & Joan Myatt Faculty Fellow

Location Room - 313, Stokely Management Center , United States

Department:

Supply Chain Management

Program:

Full-Time MBA, Global Supply Chain, Professional MBA

Center:

Global Supply Chain Institute

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Biography

Wendy Tate is the McCormick Professor of Supply Chain Management and Ray & Joan Myatt Faculty Fellow. She teaches strategic sourcing and sustainability to undergraduate, MBA, executive and doctoral students. She is interested in the financial impacts of business decisions across the supply chain.

Tate specializes in translating academic work into classroom learning activities and disseminating her work globally. Her research can be broadly classified under purchasing but focuses primarily on two types of business problems. The first is in services purchasing, including outsourcing, offshoring and reshoring. The second area is on environmental business practices and understanding how these initiatives can be diffused across a supply chain and a supply network. She presents at many different venues, including both academic and practitioner-oriented conferences and has published research in several top-tier academic journals.

Tate serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Before receiving her doctorate, she spent 17 years in corporate planning, supply chain management, purchasing and operations management within the furniture industry.

Expertise:

Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Operation

Education:

2006 Arizona State University, Ph.D., Supply Chain Management

1993 Arizona State University, MB.A., International Business

1989 Arizona State University, B.S., Operations Management

Awards/Honors
  • Global Supply Chain Faculty Fellow, May 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
  • Haslam Scholars Program, Cheryl Massingale Faculty Research Fellow, 2017.
  • Haslam Scholars Program, Cheryl Massingale Faculty Research Fellow, 2016.
  • Diversity and Inclusion Award, May 2016.
  • Haslam Scholars Program, Charlie and Caroline Newcome Faculty Fellow, 2015.
  • Kinney Family Research Fellow, May 2014.
  • Vallett Family Research Award, May 2014.
  • Perry Ozburn; Departmental Service Award, December 2012 and December 2016.