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Lora Cecere (twitter ID @lcecere) is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights LLC and the author of the popular enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman, which 28,000 supply chain professionals currently read. She also writes as a LinkedIn Influencer and contributes to Forbes. She has written thirteen books and regularly publishes a monthly newsletter on LinkedIn for over 120,000 subscribers.

With over twenty years as a research analyst, first with AMR Research, Altimeter Group, and Gartner Group, and now as the Founder of Supply Chain Insights, Lora understands supply chain management. She has worked with over 2500 companies on their supply chain strategy and is a frequent speaker on the evolution of supply chain processes and technologies.

She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee in Chemical Engineering, and holds a Master's degree from the Wharton School of Business. As a lifelong learner, she has also completed postgraduate work in research methods as a DBA student at Temple and in Organizational Development at Georgetown University.

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