Kim Hadlum has been the Senior Director of Inventory Planning at Armada Supply Chain Solutions since January 2020.  In her role, she is responsible for the success of large teams in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and in Planning Analysis and Capabilities. In her role, Kim leads her teams to develop and implement strategically driven inventory…

Spanning an 11-year supply chain career with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Sarah Brogno is a motivated and collaborative professional who is eager to make a positive impact and deliver high quality results in support of business growth, process improvement and increased customer experience. She has built a diversified portfolio of experiences, across a multitude of…

  Lauren Chuday Gallagher is Vice President of Merchandise Operations supporting Entertainment, Toys & Seasonal at Walmart, Inc with almost 15 years’ experience leveraging the supply chain to help people save money and live better. She is a dynamic leader with a proven ability to consistently exceed expectations through cross functional collaboration, understanding customer needs, building…

Yuwuxia Li will be a senior at Penn State in fall 2022. She is an international student from China who has contributed to Penn State and Smeal community through her involvement in the Sapphire Leadership Academic Program, the Nittany Lion Consulting Group, and her role as a Resident Assistant to over 50 students. Li shares…

Ana Sparages is a junior at Penn State studying supply chain & information systems. Sparages shares her enthusiasm for the supply chain discipline and her plans to maintain a positive a work/life balance in the future by taking time off to fully focus on family. Sparages is a proud Penn Stater whose work with THON…

Maria Karamanos is a junior at Penn State, studying supply chain & information systems.  Karamanos is a part of Smeal’s renowned Sapphire Leadership Academic Program and envisions a world where every woman has a seat at the table. A proud Penn Stater, Karamanos acknowledges the value add of Smeal offerings and expresses her thanks for…

Katie Cocco is currently a junior at Penn State. She is a member of the Sapphire Leadership Program and is a proud Smeal student. Cocco shares her experiences with joining the program, her journey so far through Smeal, and her ambitions for the future. Tune in to see what she has to share!

Merritt Jones is the Senior Manager of the Global Supply Chain Rotational Program and SOP Top Inputs at Lenovo. Jones has been with Lenovo for the last four years and worked for IBM for ten years, starting as a graduate hire in 2000. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, Tom— also a…

Courtney Quisenberry has been the Customer Supply Chain Manager at the Campbell Soup Company since 2018, managing a team of analysts who oversee the order-to-cash process to support net sales and annual operating plan targets. She leads weekly service meetings with customers to drive in stock levels, on time delivery, and case fill metrics to…

Hui Zhao is an associate professor and the Robert G. and Caroline Schwartz Fellow within the Smeal Supply Chain and Information Systems (SCIS) Department. Zhao’s research applies analytics to the healthcare systems with particular interests in pharmaceutical supply chains, public policy, and innovative design of healthcare systems (such as telehealth and online platforms). Most of…

Katie McElgunn has been with United States Cold Storage for 10 years in roles ranging from Intern to Logistics Analyst and Customer Experience Supervisor to her current position as Customer Experience Manager. In her role, McElgunn conducts and oversees rate analyses, customer reporting, and network optimizations. Her wealth of experience has led to an applied…

Jessica Gerhard is currently the Senior Manager, Customer Supply Chain & Planning Analytics at the Hershey Company. In this role, Gerhard partners with Walmart & Sam’s Club to ensure on-shelf availability & drive productive retail inventory to meet consumer demand. Additionally, she works closely with the enterprise planning teams to outline Hershey’s growth strategies and…