Dale Stewart Rogers

Dr. Dale S. Rogers Dale Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at the Supply Chain Management department at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab ASU. He is the Principal Investigator of the $15 million CARISCA Project at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana and a visiting professor there. Dale is the Director of Global Projects for ILOS - Instituto de Logística e Supply Chain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dale won the Reverse Logistics Education Award from the Reverse Logistics Association in 2023 and is widely considered to be the “father” of academic study of reverse logistics. Also in 2023, Dale was selected as an Inaugural Fellow for CSCMP. In 2022, Dale was selected as the CSCMP Academic “Giant”. He is the 2021 CSCMP Distinguished Service Award winner and was also inducted into the Supply Chain Hall of Fame. Dr. Rogers is the Principal Investigator on the Supply Chain AI Realized Future funded by a consortium of firms including Intel, Applied Materials and Chemonics International. In 2012 he became the first academic to receive the International Warehouse and Logistics Association Distinguished Service Award in its 130-year history. Dr. Rogers is a former “Rainmaker” for the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) which is the economic development arm of Reno, Nevada. He is a Board Advisor to G2RL.com, Flexe, and Enterra Solutions and is a founding board member of the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council and serves on the board of directors for the Organización Mundial de Ciudades y Platformas Logísticas which is an international logistics organization focusing on challengers across Latin America. Dale is a leading researcher in the fields of semiconductor supply chains, artificial intelligence applied to supply chain management, health care logistics, reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain financing and secondary markets, has published in the leading journals of the supply chain and logistics fields. He has been principal investigator on research grants from numerous organizations. He is a Senior Editor at the Journal of Business Logistics, Rutgers Business Review, Area Editor at Annals of Management Science, and associate editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He has made more than 400 presentations to professional organizations and has been a faculty member in numerous executive education programs at universities in the United States, Africa, China, Europe and South America as well as at major corporations and professional organizations. Dr. Rogers has been a consultant to several companies and a principal investigator on research grants from numerous organizations and has been an author of several books including the lead author of a new book on the subject of Supply Chain Financing along with Rudi Leuschner and Tom Choi. Dale is an editor of the Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management published in 2021.

Visiting Professor, KNUST Business School · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology