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title: "Dollar General promotes, adds in supply chain, legal departments"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/868316e3-9748-4efc-911c-febf8845fc04
source: "Winsight Grocery Business"
original_url: https://www.supermarketnews.com/executive-moves/dollar-general-promotes-adds-in-supply-chain-legal-departments
category: "Specialty retail"
industry: "Retail"
segment: "Specialty retail"
topics: ["People","Operations"]
published: 2026-09-18T17:11:42.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T13:18:21.090Z
image: https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt58a1f8f560a1ab0e/bltb92841d351ad5dd6/6aad732e7c417978c70c0ca4/The_front_of_a_Dollar_General_store.webp?width=720&quality=80&disable=upscale
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# Dollar General promotes, adds in supply chain, legal departments

**TL;DR:** Dollar General has promoted Braden Anderson to vice president, global inventory management, and added Alisha Cieslak as vice president, chief compliance officer. Anderson and Cieslak will oversee inventory management and compliance functions, respectively, to support operational excellence and integrity across the enterprise.

*originally published in Winsight Grocery Business on 2026-09-18. [Read the original](https://www.supermarketnews.com/executive-moves/dollar-general-promotes-adds-in-supply-chain-legal-departments).*

## Story

Dollar General (DG) announced two leadership updates on Thursday in the company’s supply chain and legal departments.

Braden Anderson was promoted to vice president, global inventory management, overseeing strategies that optimize inventory investments, improve product availability and support operational excellence across the enterprise. At the company since 2014, Anderson has progressed through roles of increasing responsibility within DG’s logistics and transportation functions. He joined the company as a demand chain management analyst and most recently served as senior director, transportation, where he led DG’s Transportation Operations Center (TOC) operations, advanced routing and return transportation initiatives.

Alisha Cieslak has joined Dollar General as vice president, chief compliance officer where she will lead Dollar General’s compliance and ethics function, supporting the business in operating with integrity and accountability for DG customers, employees, shareholders and communities. Cieslak brings nearly two decades of legal executive experience leading enterprise compliance, ethics, governance and regulatory programs at food service distribution, manufacturing and private practice organizations. She most recently served as chief legal and risk officer for Gordon Food Service, a North American food service distributor, where she provided oversight for legal, enterprise risk, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and other key corporate functions.

## Entities

- Retail (sector)
- supply chain (topic)
- Winsight Grocery Business (publication)
- Dollar General (company)
- Gordon Food Service (company)
- executive moves (topic)
- Braden Anderson (person)
- Alisha Cieslak (person)
- legal departments (topic)

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Originally reported by Winsight Grocery Business (https://www.supermarketnews.com/executive-moves/dollar-general-promotes-adds-in-supply-chain-legal-departments). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/868316e3-9748-4efc-911c-febf8845fc04).
