Asher Data Science Began as Supply Chain Associates LLC in 2006 offering end-to-end supply chain consulting services. Over time, we specialized in all aspects of supply chain deign, process automation and AI.

Supply Chain Associates, LLC

SCA LLC was founded in 2006 by Mark McCallister--a former ex-Deloitte Principal, Accenture consultant, and Director of Strategic Planning and Engineering at Starbucks Coffee--in collaboration with Ex-Big 4 consulting firm Partners, Principals, and Senior Managers. The firm specialized in supply chain analytics in network design, transportation modal strategy and routing, distribution center design, and strategic sourcing.

Asher Data Science

As SCA LLC began to develop advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence in Python, it soon become the core of our business, and we decided to change our name to Asher Data Science. The name Asher, is the name of our AI network modeling expert, a core of our software toolset. After decades of consulting at the big firms, and in industry roles, we formed SCA to provide expert consulting services and leading software tools to clients. With Python, we discovered that we could program our expertise and automate the supply chain design process to an extent that we became obsolete. Therefore, we migrated our business model to focus on our supply chain design tools and data services and changed our name to Asher Data Science.

Our Founder

Our founder, Mark McCallister, has 25+ years of supply chain design experience in retail, consumer products, high-tech, telco, med-device and healthcare/biotech sectors. As Director of Engineering for Starbucks Coffee, he designed and implemented their North American supply Chain, was a principal at Deloitte Consulting, and was a consultant at Accenture. Highlights of major clients include Starbucks, Nike, Chanel, Payless Shoes, Ross Stores, Kirkland’s (Maersk), and Central Dept. Stores, Sears Logistics Services, Montgomery Ward, The Body Shop, ATT Wireless, Xerox, Sprint, Spirent, Vivendi (Havas), and Invitrogen.

Mark is an expert in network strategy, transportation model strategy and vehicle route modeling tools, including Infor/Arthur, Sales, JDA/Blue Yonder/Network Strategist, Micro Analytics, and CAPS toolkit, as well as statistical analysis with Minitab. Mark also has expertise in manufacturing and distribution center design and start-up, as well as supply chain systems, including warehouse management, labor management, transportation management, and forecasting/allocation systems (Oracle & Blue Yonder).

Mark’s passion is building the next generation of supply chain design tools, leveraging both his supply chain design and systems expertise and the exciting new data science platform of Python and robust libraries.