Supply Chain Management Expert Witnesses

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What is a supply chain management expert witness?
Supply chain management expert witness candidate typically have a background in warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, transportation, procurement, supply chain security, supply chain operations, and/or inventory management. A supply chain expert witness must have an understanding of the market share, market players and dynamics of the associated global supply chain. Oftentimes, the selected expert is a member of an industry organization such as the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), and/or the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
What types of cases require a supply chain management expert witness?
Matters requiring the expertise of a supply chain management expert witness might involve an intellectual property lawsuit, breach of contract issues, safety, or import/export cases involving the International Trade Commission (ITC).
Supply chain management expert witness case examples
Example assignments that Cahn Litigation Services has provided supply chain experts for include:
- Chinese manufacturing quality control,
- trucking business operations,
- inventory control and valuation,
- e-commerce information technology,
- motor carrier sourcing,
- warehouse automation, and
- distributors’ pricing.
What litigation support work might a supply chain management expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a supply chain expert witness could include arbitration, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, damages calculations, and expert witness testimony at deposition and in court.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a supply chain management expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Supply Chain Management Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Supply Chain Management experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Supply Chain Management landscape.
Expert Witness #260332
HACCP Stands for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. HACCP is an internationally recognized system for reducing the risk of safety hazards in food. An HACCP System requires that potential hazards are identified and controlled at specific points in the process.
Following a career in the public and private sectors, this expert launched a consulting firm, serving as President and CEO and specializing in food safety and health policy, and regulatory science. This expert has had senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors. During this expert's career in the food industry, this expert served as a director in supply chain management and quality systems. In these roles, this expert was an integral player in the care and management of perishable produce from the vendor through to manufacturing or service in a restaurant. This expert worked closely with multiple companies and regulatory agencies in the safe handling, storage, transport, and service of fresh produce - including strawberries.
In addition to responsibilities for food safety, this expert had a leadership role in designing and reviewing traceability programs for food products in national and international transport in quality and food safety leadership roles; and as part of the development of Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems, and ISO 9000 quality management systems. This expert reviewed various temperature tracking tools and used several different systems in various positions. Further, as a successful consultant, this expert has had to review procedures and data for temperature tracking; this expert is well familiar with the industry's needs and available tools for temperature control. This expert has worked with most commodities and is highly familiar with the standard shelf life of perishable food items, and the impact of temperature and humidity on food quality and safety.
Prior to joining the public sector, this expert worked for a regulatory agency for meat and poultry. There this expert led the global development for the principles of HACCP, and played key roles in the adoption of HACCP as a regulatory tool and the development of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards. This expert has also worked for two science-based trade associations.
This expert received a doctoral degree, Masters of Science and undergraduate degree and is a
Registered Dietitian. This expert is also a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including a significant number of depositions and one trial testimony.
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This expert has many years of development and operations experience in high technology companies. This expert has made hands-on technical contributions to numerous business software application development efforts. This expert’s knowledge and experience extends over three principal areas: (1) Architecture and design of complex web-server and client-server business software systems, (2) detailed design and coding techniques for business software applications, and (3) software project management and development contracts. This expert’s detailed programming knowledge encompasses Java, C, C++, ASP, Python and Visual Basic languages, as well as assembly language for Intel and 68K microprocessors and real-time DSP applications. This expert has also managed programming teams that created applications for mainframes. This expert’s networking experience includes TCP/IP router development for Ethernet LAN's, fiber optic links, and wide area networks. This expert has managed many client-server and web-based ERP business solutions projects for Financial, Inventory, Order Entry, Shipping, Supply Chain and Manufacturing core modules. This expert has worked on semiconductor manufacturing systems involving yield prediction and supply chain management using statistical forecasting. This expert has direct experience with Oracle 8.05, 8i and 9i as well as SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 for both transactional and data warehouse systems. This expert has also held responsibilities for internal network operation, intranet, and public access web server IT functions in several corporations. In this role this expert gained a detailed understanding of security issues such as SSL, user authentication, network security, firewalls, hacking countermeasures. This expert is also knowledgeable about email servers, backup and restore procedures, and service level agreements for customer-outsourced data in ASP systems.
This expert holds a B.S. degree with 1st Class Honors, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. also in Electrical Engineering. This expert has extensive litigation experience including deposition and courtroom testimony, claim construction for Markman hearings, infringement and validity rebuttal reports in support of plaintiffs, as well as numerous non-infringement and invalidity reports on behalf of defendants.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #236118
This expert is well-published, having authored five books on supply chain as well as an Amazon Best-Seller. This expert has significant expert witness experience in global manufacturing, import/export trade compliance, Chinese products, supply chain and outsourcing and has written numerous expert reports and testified in arbitrations and trials. This expert has been a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has taught at colleges and universities.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #260482
This expert brings to the table many years’ experience of bringing fundamental research through to practical implementation and full commercialization – based on technologies ranging from biomedical biosensors through to smart wound dressings and sensors for use within the food, water and environmental monitoring industries. This expert’s career to date has spanned academic departments of Chemistry, Medicine, Biotechnology, Materials Science and Engineering across every part of the University sector - with this being reflected in publications and ongoing research interests.
This expert’s research career has been focused towards sensors for food chain, medical and environmental applications. This expert is the author of >130 publications spanning areas of sensors, data transmission and food chain supply logistics and food safety having worked with agri-food and sensor- oriented companies.
This expert can bring extensive experience of acting as an expert witness in patent trials and arbitration cases.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #236197
This PCB/electronics expert holds a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics, and is a Professional Engineer with fellowship recognition from multiple prominent engineering, reliability, materials, automotive, and microelectronics professional societies. This expert has served in senior editorial roles for prominent engineering, reliability, microelectronics, and circuit publications, including over 5 years leading a broad engineering journal, over 5 years leading a reliability journal, and over 15 years leading a microelectronics reliability journal. This expert has also contributed to a number of national science studies and congressional investigations involving automotive safety, and has provided expertise to a federal health agency.
This expert is a university professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. This expert is the author of over 30 books on product reliability, development, use, and supply chain management, as well as books on the electronics industry across several major Asian markets. This expert has written over 700 technical articles, holds over 10 patents, and has received numerous industry awards. This expert has experience with PCBs and electronics, international teaching assignments and awards, and significant expert witness experience.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #246515
This transportation and logistics expert holds a Ph.D. and has taught marine transportation, intermodal transportation across land, sea, and air, supply chain management, marine and railroad container operations, warehouse and terminal operations, and materials handling at the college level for over 40 years.
This expert also served on the education committee of an intermodal freight transportation publications organization, with a focus on marine transportation, and was involved in the development of container ports in a major metropolitan area.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #260922
This truck cargo safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and has focused on logistics and warehousing matters during a career as an expert witness. This expert is a senior principal at a professional services consulting and advisory firm, providing expertise to corporations and law firms. This expert is a former dean at a military systems and logistics school and formerly commanded a logistics group.
This expert is well-published and is a frequent presenter at business and academic conferences, establishing expertise in the field. This expert acts as a supply chain and logistics expert witness with over 40 years of experience in supply, transportation, sourcing, warehousing, trucking, and inventory control. This expert has extensive experience in warehouse operations, material handling, safety, manufacturing, hazardous material management, forklift operations and safety, warehouse and distribution center operations, truckload operations, and less-than-truckload operations.
This expert has experience with trailers, trailer securement, load and weight distribution, and proper load balancing, including work involving pipe, bagged materials, and stone slabs. This expert has also addressed issues involving driver training, load securement, truck operation during hauling, and related cargo safety practices.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #268781
This railroad operations expert is a senior leader of a transportation consulting firm with decades of experience in railroad operations, management, and logistics. As a consultant, this expert has performed numerous logistical studies to assist with supply chain optimization. As an industry expert, a consulting firm associated with this expert developed a key railroad costing model based on contemporary operations and financial data. This expert is an experienced litigation consultant and expert witness.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #273107
This global food safety and public health expert holds an MD and has over 30 years of experience in medical and food safety research. This expert founded and leads an internationally recognized consultancy and brings global food safety and public health expertise, with in-depth knowledge and real-world experience in government and industry, including senior roles with international food and beverage companies and U.S. and Canadian government agencies.
This expert's work includes food safety, rapid response, environmental controls, supply chain management, standards and regulations, food safety culture, vulnerability assessments and training, and public health.
This expert has published extensively and is internationally recognized for public health expertise in food safety and research in infectious diseases. This expert is a sought-after speaker and has appeared as a guest on national media programs, and serves on a variety of boards and food safety advisory groups associated with major food manufacturers.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #282032
This supply chain expert holds a PhD and an MBA and is a noted supply chain authority, a founding partner of an international consulting firm with offices in California and Canada, and an adjunct professor and lecturer at a well-regarded California university. This expert holds current certifications in International Procurement, Supply Chain, and Supply Chain Planning Management.
This expert's expertise is in supply chain management, including supply chain issues involving branded products, while branding practices and consumer behavior fall within the broader area of supply chain management.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant specializing in product liability, manufacturing defects, and supply chain failures. This expert provides expert testimony in cases ranging from individual product defect claims to mass tort and class action litigation, including matters involving product recalls, quality assurance failures, supply chain disruption, causation analysis, and regulatory compliance.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #287501
This business valuation/statistics expert has over 10 years of consulting and expert experience, with expertise in valuation, statistics, finance, and economics. This expert has worked on litigation matters involving loss estimates for unpaid time for thousands of class members, valuations of private companies, trade secrets, construction defect cases involving analysis of samples, margins of error, and extrapolations, and wrongful death and personal injury cases.
This expert graduated summa cum laude from a California public university with a B.S. in Business Administration, with emphases in Global Supply Chain Management and Systems and Operations Management and minors in Finance and Marketing. This expert is a CFA Charterholder and holds CIMA?, MAFF?, and CVA? designations.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #295969
This code review expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from a prestigious university and is a computer scientist and software engineer focused on cybersecurity, with specialization in vulnerability management, security products, software supply chain security, phishing mitigation, network security, and authentication systems. This expert is a published author and invited speaker and holds a number of patents related to cybersecurity.
This expert's cybersecurity work has included authentication, payment fraud, network intrusion detection, biometric fingerprint authentication, phishing, software supply chain security, software dependency security, and vulnerability management. This expert has written code in C++, Java, Python, and Go, developed an online digital library, and worked as a full-stack software developer.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #297185
This logistics expert has over 40 years of experience in the transportation industry, with work spanning rail operations, transportation-related computer systems, service management, market management, account management, sales leadership, business development, and logistics strategy. This expert began in rail operations and later worked at the headquarters level, leading a diversified programming team that designed and coded sophisticated transportation-related computer systems.
This expert later held increasingly responsible roles across business sectors including petroleum and chemicals, coal, fertilizers, metals, sulfur, and other industrial products. This expert concluded a major rail-industry career in a senior business development role focused on long-term transportation strategy, particularly relating to the petroleum industry in western Canada.
Following that rail-industry career, this expert became a principal consultant for a trans-modal and inter-modal logistics and supply chain consultancy specializing in business development, sales and marketing, and operations.
This expert has been in the transportation and logistics business for over 40 years, with experience in sales and marketing, logistics, transportation operations, and information technology. This expert has negotiated dozens of transportation contracts for a wide variety of commodities from both supplier and consumer perspectives, including significant multi-year agreements involving industrial materials and energy-sector transportation.
This expert has developed numerous rail and truck terminals from conception through operation, including freight contract negotiations, permitting, systems development, project oversight and management, and long-term contracts with major rail carriers. This expert has also negotiated contracts of varying sizes and has broader relevant transportation and logistics experience.
This expert has limited experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant, including research, expert report writing, and deposition testimony, and has not testified at trial.
Start Supply Chain Management Expert SearchExpert Witness #301379
This international sanctions compliance expert is a proven transaction banking, financial crime compliance, and FinTech leader with over 25 years of experience. This expert specializes in anti-money laundering, sanctions, counter-terrorist financing, tax evasion, and fraud detection and prevention.
This expert has an extensive track record managing trade finance and cash management businesses in developed and emerging markets. Areas of expertise include letters of credit, working capital finance, bank guarantees, supply chain finance, receivables finance, and financial crime compliance and risk across trade transaction banking and commercial lending.
This expert has been appointed as an expert witness on multiple occasions.
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