About

Dr. Dale S. Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at the Department of Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University. He also serves as the Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Internet Edge Supply Chain Lab at ASU. His research interests include reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain finance, secondary markets, and real options. Dr. Rogers has made significant contributions to the field through his publications in leading journals, his role as principal investigator on various research grants, and his leadership in academic and industry organizations. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including the CSCMP Distinguished Service Award, the Supply Chain Hall of Fame induction, and the International Warehouse and Logistics Association Distinguished Service Award. Additionally, he is involved in multiple boards and advisory roles, and has been a faculty member in executive education programs across the globe. Dr. Rogers holds a Ph.D., M.B.A., and B.A. from Michigan State University and has authored several books, including a notable publication on supply chain financing. His extensive research, teaching, and public work have established him as a leading figure in supply chain management and logistics.

Research topics

• Business
• Finance
• Marketing
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Industrial organization
• Commerce
• Macroeconomics
• Environmental resource management
• Economics
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Clarifying the purpose of supply chain financing: A response to ‘On what is being funded’

  Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management · 2026-02-01 · 1 citations

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  • We agree with Professor Gelsomino (2024) that supply chain financing (SCF) literature has been too tactical and limited in focus. • Profit and cash flow are results of the business , and they are captured in the company’s financials. The intertwined nature of these concepts is more than just a choice a firm makes. • Although cash flow is central to firm survival and strategic flexibility, it has received surprisingly limited theoretical attention in the supply chain management literature. This focus reflects a structural separation between SCM and corporate finance. • Maintaining positive cash flow before profitability arrives can be enabled by utilizing innovative SCF techniques. • The embedded nature of supply chain capital makes transactional arrangements, rather than financing contracts, the primary mechanism through which liquidity is created, shifted, and allocated within and across firms. • SCF involves both funding the organization through the supply chain and funding the supply chain through the organization ( Leuschner, et al., 2023 ). • Using the organization to fund the supply chain generates strategic benefits that extend beyond short-term liquidity support to suppliers and customers and can be explained through multiple organizational theories. • The goal of supply chain management is to optimize the financial flow of a focal company, and the means to this is to adopt a SCF orientation.

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• Improving foster carer recruitment in Victoria: a mixed-methods approach to support tailored recruitment efforts

  Journal of Public Child Welfare · 2025-01-22

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• Unveiling the Structure of Reverse Supply Networks: An Empirical Exploration

  Journal of Business Logistics · 2025-05-02 · 3 citations

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  ABSTRACT As the levels of inventory in supply chains worldwide continue to rise, with over $800 billion of returned and excess inventory (equivalent to 3% of the U.S. GDP) passing through secondary market channels each year, efficient reverse supply networks have become increasingly important. In this study, we use a multi‐method approach to analyze a longitudinal dataset from a large U.S. reverse logistics platform for the purpose of mapping the reverse supply network and exploring its evolution over time. Taking a network perspective and drawing upon the complex adaptive system theory, our study contributes to the literature by providing the first large‐scale, long‐term mapping of a reverse supply network. This analysis reveals how reverse supply networks evolve, how macroeconomic factors impact their dynamically changing structures, and how these networks differ from forward supply networks. Our findings also provide important implications for managers, shedding light on the importance of secondary markets and reverse supply networks in firms' overall supply chain strategies.

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• Protect me not: The effect of tariffs on U.S. supply networks

  Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management · 2024-01-01 · 30 citations

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• The Impact of Engaging Transplant Recipients in Health Care Policy Deliberations

  Progress in Transplantation · 2024-12-12

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• Financial ripple effect in complex adaptive supply networks: an agent-based model

  International Journal of Production Research · 2023-02-22 · 46 citations

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  Tightening lending standards are motivating companies to adopt supply chain financing, with invoice backed lending to remedy financial stress. These financial objects depend on company-to-company relationships. The accumulation of these dyadic relationships creates complex supply network topologies. Companies within these networks are selfish and have varying degrees of bargaining power. To remain operational, they maximise their liquidity by negotiating longer repayment terms and cheaper financing, thus distributing risk onto weaker companies and propagating financial stress. To study this phenomenon, we created an agent-based supply network simulation model capturing these behaviours. We investigate structural conditions that make supply networks vulnerable to financial stress propagation and the resultant financial ripple effects using survivability analysis. We found firms with higher bargaining power are disproportionately more exposed to network risk. In diamond-shaped networks, firms occupying lower tiers are critical in financial stress propagation, becoming deep-tier nexus suppliers. Our results are relevant to industries with heterogeneous network composition. Practitioners must mitigate the effects of vulnerable network structures with careful supply chain financing design.

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• The supply chain financing ecosystem: Early responses during the COVID-19 crisis

  Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management · 2023 · 44 citations

  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Business
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• Investigating the effectiveness of gamification on supply chain operations knowledge and practice

  Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education · 2023-10-16 · 8 citations

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  Abstract The use of gamification to enhance learning in education has been well documented. However, little is known about whether gamification can impact supply chain management knowledge and behaviors among healthcare professionals. In this study, we tested the effectiveness of a simulation app (ShipShape) designed and developed to gamify the fundamental concepts of supply chain management. We field tested the effectiveness of the app to impact knowledge gain and supply chain practice by asking healthcare professionals to use the app in their day‐to‐day operations. We collected longitudinal data spanning the period before and after the introduction of the app. The analysis and results of different types of data collected provide support for the positive impact of the app on both supply chain knowledge and practice among healthcare professionals.

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• ‘To fund’ as a new purpose of supply chain management: Making a case for supply chain financing

  Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management · 2023-11-11 · 15 citations

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• Supply Chain Financing and Pandemic: Managing Cash Flows to Keep Firms and Their Value Networks Healthy

  2022 · 24 citations

  • Business
  • Finance
  • Commerce
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Frequent coauthors

• Patricia J. Daugherty

  24 shared

• Rudolf Leuschner

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  20 shared

• Ronald S. Tibben‐Lembke

  University of Nevada, Reno

  12 shared

• Thomas Y. Choi

  Arizona State University

  11 shared

• Zachary S. Rogers

  Colorado State University

  11 shared

• Donald J. Bowersox

  10 shared

• Cornelia Dröge

  Michigan State University

  9 shared

• Richard Germain

  8 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Michigan State University

  1990

• Other

  Michigan State University

  1983

• B.A.

  Michigan State University

  1979

Awards & honors

• Reverse Logistics Education Award from the Reverse Logistics…
• CSCMP Academic “Giant” (2022)
• CSCMP Distinguished Service Award (2021)
• Inducted into the Supply Chain Hall of Fame (2021)
• International Warehouse and Logistics Association Distinguis…