2025 NESCON Supply Chain Hall of Fame Winner
The 2025 honoree for NESCON’s Supply Chain Hall of Fame Award (the award for OUTSTANDING leadership and contribution to the Supply Chain profession) is Maryanne Ross. Maryanne has been active in supply chain education for over 25 years, starting her own training company in October 2001, Supply Chain Mavens. She is recognized through the ASCM/APICS Instructor Development Program as a Master Instructor for CPIM and CSCP, and as a Lead Instructor for Lean Enterprise, Global Sourcing, and the Principles courses. She is also recognized as a Master Instructor of new instructors for all three of the ASCM/APICS Instructor Training Programs.
Maryanne has 18 years of experience in a variety of manufacturing, purchasing, and logistics positions, including automotive, medical, consumer goods, electronic, and food industries.
Maryanne has been an ASCM/APICS member for over 25 years. She has developed interactive exercises to enhance the entire suite of ASCM/APICS CSCP and CPIM review courses, and has served as a subject matter expert on the ASCM/APICS CPIM, CSCP, and Principles content development committees. She has also been instrumental in creating activities and enhancements for the CPIM, Principles, and Lean programs. Her passion has helped stimulate the learning experience for adult learners, by creating hands-on exercises that engage all learning styles. She is often engaged to deliver 5S and Lean training for many Fortune 500 organizations, utilizing their internally developed curriculums, working in union and non-union environments
She has trained several thousand participants around the world, working for clients such as Astra Zeneca, Exxon Mobil, AOL, Merck, DuPont, Volvo, Northrop Grumman, Hollister, GE, Fairchild Controls, The Hershey Company, JLG, Manitowoc Crane Group, Wabtec, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Her many years of service as a volunteer and instructor in the field of supply chain earn Maryanne Ross, CPIM-F, CIRM, CSCP-F, CLTD-F, CTSC the 14th chair in NESCON’s (New England Supply Chain) Hall of Fame.