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Verda A. BlytheDirector Verda is the director of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. She is responsible for marketing the Center to prospective students and employers, developing the Center’s applied learning program, and providing academic and career guidance to the Center’s undergraduate and MBA students. She works closely with the Center’s faculty and Executive Advisory Board on program strategy and leads outreach activities with alumni, employers, and professional associations. Verda has presented at various conferences about industry-educational partnerships in supply chain management, and she teaches a course, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, in the undergraduate curriculum. Verda brings thirteen years of supply chain industry experience to her position at the Grainger Center, having worked in various functions, including procurement/sourcing, production, and logistics. After earning a BBA degree in logistics from Iowa State University, she worked for Ruan Transportation Management Systems in various roles, including quality, planning, and customer development. In 2002, she graduated with an MS degree in supply chain management from the Grainger Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her summer internship during graduate school was in logistics and materials management at Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Upon graduation, she joined IBM’s integrated supply chain where she worked in global procurement and the systems and software group, both domestically and abroad.
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