Sherry Gordon is an innovator in enterprise measurement and
performance improvement techniques and a thought leader in supplier performance management. She brings many years of experience
as a practitioner, management consultant, entrepreneur and business person.
After the acquisition of her company,
Valuedge, she was Vice President, Supplier Performance at Emptoris, a leading provider of enterprise supply management software solutions. Valuedge’s supplier assessment software became
part of Emptoris’ software suite.
Before founding Valuedge, where she was President, and CEO,
she ran the New England Suppliers Institute (NESI), a non-profit organization focused on improving the customer-supplier relationship
and also improving supplier performance via lean enterprise practices adoption in the supply base, supplier development and
education. NESI offered some of the first public workshops in the country for suppliers on lean manufacturing.
Sherry worked for manufacturing and distribution companies as well as the consulting firms Arthur D. Little, Inc.
and the former Arthur Young. Besides supply chain management, Sherry has a background in quality, materials management and
lean enterprise and was an examiner for the Baldrige-based Mass Excellence Award for two years.
In 1999, she published
an e-book, "Improving Company Performance Through Supply Chain Management Practices". Sherry produced a video in
2000: Creating the Lean Supply Chain: Implementation Stories. She appeared in the February 2002 ISM Satellite Seminar: “Complexity
Management: Webs, Chains and Other Business Relationship Models”. In 2002 and 2005, Sherry was chosen by Supply and
Demand Chain Executive magazine as a “Pro to Know”. Her article, “Seven Steps to Measure Supplier Performance”
appeared in the August 2005 issue of Quality Progress.
She has written a book, Supplier Evaluation and Performance
Excellence: A Guide to Meaningful Metrics and Successful Results that was just published by J. Ross Publishing in April 2008.
Sherry is a frequent speaker on enterprise performance improvement
and supply chain topics and has spoken at events for ISM (Institute for Supply Management), The Conference Board, ASQ (American
Quality Society), the Supply Chain Council, ASMI, PMAC (Purchasing Management Association of Canada), LAI (Lean Aerospace
Initiative) and others. Sherry has been active in AME (Association for Manufacturing Excellence) as Chairperson of the 2004,
2005 and 2006 AME/IndustryWeek Best Plants Conferences. She is on the Board of Advisers for the Entrepreneurship Program at
the Simmons College School of Management.
Ms. Gordon has a B.A. from University of Michigan, M.A. from Columbia
University, and MBA from Simmons School of Management.
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