P. Fraser Johnson is the Leenders Supply Chain Management Association Chair at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from Ivey in 1995, and following graduation, joined the Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. He returned to Ivey as a faculty member in 1998, where he teaches courses in supply chain management and operations. Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Johnson worked in the automotive parts industry where he held a number of senior management positions in finance and operations. His experience includes managing automotive parts facilities in both Canada and the United States, and overseeing a joint venture partnership in Mexico. Professor Johnson is an active researcher in the area of supply chain management and he has authored articles that have been published in a wide variety of magazines and journals. Fraser has also authored a number of teaching cases. He is an associate editor for The Journal of Supply Chain Management and sits on the editorial review board for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Professor Johnson has worked with a number of private and public sector organizations in both consulting and corporate education assignments in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Anna E. Flynn is a former faculty member at Thunderbird School of Global Management and Arizona State University, where she was also director of the undergraduate program in supply chain management. She also served as vice president and associate professor at the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), where she developed and taught two- to five-day seminars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, and Lisbon. She has worked as a research associate for CAPS Research, a global network of executives and academics focused on strategic supply management knowledge and practice. Anna is author of Leadership of Supply Management (2008); co-editor (with Cavinato and Kauffman) of The Supply Management Handbook and author of Chapter 7, “Knowledge-Based Supply Management” (McGraw-Hill, 2006); co-author (with Farney, 2000) of the NAPM Supply Management Knowledge Series, Volume IV: The Supply Management Leadership Process; and co-author (with Leenders, 1994) of Value-Driven Purchasing: Managing the Key Steps in the Acquisition Process. She earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from Arizona State University, and a PhD from Arizona State University.