Amber Salley is a Research Director on the SC Technology Research team. Her research focus covers supply chain planning technologies and is cross-industry. She is responsible for guiding supply chain leaders through SCP technology roadmap development and provider selection.
Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Salley held positions as a management consultant. Her first management consulting role was with Booz & Co.(now Strategy&), where she was aligned with the firm’s IT strategy groups. Ms. Salley then joined Accenture’s Supply Chain Planning Services group. She has worked with clients in many industries, including CPG, retail, healthcare, business equipment and chemical. Ms. Salley’s management consulting project experience includes: – Large-scale cost and culture transformations – Business process re-engineering – Shared-services development – Large-scale ERP implementations Ms. Salley also worked within IBM’s integrated supply chain organization, where she provided technical support to the laptop and desktop manufacturing process.