Supply Chain Management
What do Supply Chain majors do?
AT A GLANCE
2012 Median Salary:
$60,000 (Bachelor)
Students must apply, interview
and be selected for this
major. All Supply Chain
Management students are
required to complete an
internship before graduation.
2012 TOP HIRING EMPLOYERS
Deere & Company
Deloitte
W.W. Grainger
Hitachi Consulting
Huron Consulting
Supply Chain Management studies the movement of materials from their procurement as raw material, parts, or components through the manufacturing or processing sector to the marketing and distribution of end products for industrial or commercial users. Graduates apply both analytical and creative thinking abilities in consulting, manufacturing or logistics companies, starting as analysts or project managers.
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Career Options
SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTING
Develop integrated solutions that transform businesses. Work on projects that require complex systems and application integration. Provide program management services and support strategic business imperatives while enhancing operational performance and increasing a client's competitiveness.
- 43% of 2012 Supply Chain graduates started their careers in Supply Chain Consulting
- $65,500 mean salary
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Procurement - The contracting of goods and services with an emphasis on supply source development/analysis, goal-setting, bidding, negotiations, and ethical considerations.
Logistics - Responsible for performing market analysis of vendor competitiveness, support analysis for contract negotiation and review, tracking vendor performance, executing modal analysis, analyzing cost, risk, and service, analyzing transportation asset utilization and optimizing distribution networks.
Supply Chain Analysts - Work with third-party suppliers and contractors with emphasis on supply/demand market analysis, supply source strategy development, management information systems, financial analysis, bidding and negotiating, contracting, supplier relationship management, and performance management.
- 56% of 2012 Supply Chain graduates started their careers in Supply Chain Management
- $56,400 mean salary
Sample Job Descriptions
Supply Chain Manager at John Deere
Supply Management professionals at John Deere have a variety of career opportunities including: operational support (order fulfillment process), cost management, logistics, strategic sourcing, supplier development, product delivery process and new product development. Assignments like these will let you demonstrate your capabilities while contributing directly to the company's strategies and initiatives. In each assignment, you will work to meet specific objectives, demonstrate your knowledge and skills, and maintain a training regimen that develops the competencies you will need for world-class supply management.
Business Technology Analyst with Deloitte
As a member of an entrepreneurial client project team, you will have the opportunity to learn first-hand how we help many of the world's most influential companies develop their information technology strategy and enhance their technology investments. You will work with a diverse group of people across many different industries, business competencies, and technologies. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership and teamwork and can gain increased responsibilities through multiple client experiences.
You may be a part of a focused team assisting a client in determining how the IT function can more effectively support the enterprise strategy, or you may have the chance to contribute to a team working to transform a client's finance function by establishing a single data and technology architecture for its enterprise financial systems. You may also play a role in designing, developing, and implementing a new health care system that could save lives.
Supply Chain Analyst at W.W. Grainger
The Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide cost-saving solutions. Grainger's employees serve customers more than 115,000 times every day through multiple channels. As part of a high-performing team, you'll be able to develop your talents, and make a difference.
The focus of our full time hire program is to provide meaningful experiences that help new college hires learn the organization as well as develop a career within our Global Supply Chain. We are looking for Supply Chain Analyst/Associates to work in: Product Management, Global Purchasing, Inventory Management, Logistics Management, and Distribution Center Operations.
Consultant with Hitachi Consulting
Hitachi Consulting is looking for team players who are enthusiastic, thrive on responsibility and inspire trust. We want colleagues who can see the big picture while executing details and who, above all, want to bring value to our clients. Our new Consultants join our Consulting Core Practice and work as team members to provide our clients with consulting services that support our solution offerings. We offer the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of larger firms, and the innovation that comes with being part of Hitachi. Activities may include: information collection and analysis, comprehensive solution design, creating professional presentations and other written communications, systematically organizing tasks and effectively managing simultaneous priorities and commitments, identifying and communicating project issues and participating in problem resolution, and interfacing and working effectively with client's personnel and building client relationships.