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Looking for a program that will lead you into a strong job market, excellent salary and a wide range of opportunities?
Supply chain management may be the choice for you.
What is supply chain management?
Visualize the chain of organizations and activities involved in creating a particular consumer product and making it available to you in a retail store. The mineral extractors in the mines, the suppliers of components, the trucking firms, the warehousing operations, the manufacturing company, the inventory manager, those who do packaging and crating, the distributors. Everyone who participates in the creation and distribution process comprises a supply chain.
The supply chain management major learns how to orchestrate and manage this process.
What jobs are available for supply chain management graduates?
Supply chain management is a growing area of importance in corporations today and has been called one of the "hottest career paths in the 21st century by the U.S. News & World Report.
Many businesses participate in one or more supply chains. They employ supply chain specialists in such positions as:
- Industrial Buyer
- Customer Service Manager
- Materials Manager
- Logistics Engineer
- Logistics Analyst
- Global Supply Chain Specialist
- Inventory Manager
- Warehouse Operations Supervisor
- Production Planner
- Logistics Services Sales Person
- Transportation Manager
- Forecasting Analyst
What are the career placement opportunities?
Employment opportunities are outstanding. The Goddard School receives recurring solicitations for internship and career positions in supply chain management. Firms recruiting our supply chain management graduates are diverse and numerous, including (but not limited to):
- Alcoa
- ATK Thiokol, Inc.
- Dyno Nobel
- Ford Motor Company
- Franklin Covey
- JCPenney
- Kimberly Clark
- L-3 Communications
- The Boeing Company
- UPS
- Wal-Mart
Click here to view the program requirements.
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