Dr. Sime (Sheema) Curkovic
2023
Great time to be a supply chain student. Deloitte expects U.S. manufacturers to have 2.1M unfilled jobs by 2030, & the BLS is projecting that SCM employment will grow by 7% annually through 2026.
The number of US job postings for supply chain managers on LinkedIn more than doubled between 2019 & 2022 (per The Financial Times). The U.S. supply chain accounts for 37% of all domestic jobs (per Harvard Business Review).
Supply chain pros are making an avg of nearly $30K more/yr than the avg American, & are generally happy in their careers (per ASCM)...WMU SCM grads have a median wage range of $65-$75K.
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Supply Chain Expert (kind of)
Sime (Sheema) Curkovic, Professor, Operations/Supply Chain Management
Lee Honors College Faculty Fellow
Research: sustainability, new product development, quality, supply chain risk, lean six sigma, data analytics, & strategic sourcing (i.e., indexed pricing automation – no more giant color coded spreadsheets & manual entry allowed).
Lots of Tech Talk: Explore the role of emerging technologies in supply chain education.
“WMU Integrated Supply Management (ISM)…Nation’s best undergraduate SCM program (Gartner); 2nd in SCM technology (SoftwareAdvice); 2nd in top global SCM talent (SCM World)”
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November 29, 2023
Careers and salaries in the supply chain (we just had a student get offered $87K)…
A solid, albeit somewhat generic/broad, overview for those looking to get acquainted with the suppl
November 29, 2023
Wow, the Harvard Business Review (Delgado & Mills) called this right 5 years ago in 2018 (pre covid), well done. Lots of jobs in the supply chain…
Wow, the Harvard Business Review (Delgado & Mills) called this right 5 years ago in 2018 (pre c
November 29, 2023
ArcGIS/ESRI: Should SCM students learn this?…”the importance of including location analytics in the standard business school curriculum — especially in the field of supply chain management.”
Should SCM students learn this?…”the importance of including location analytics in the standard bus
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Sime is amazing. He is a wonderful Professor who truly cares about his students. He wants to help students.

Sime is great motivator and mentor in the ISM program at Western Michigan. He truly cares about his students' success and provides students with information that will help them in the real world.

Sime is great motivator and mentor in the ISM program at Western Michigan. He truly cares about his students' success and provides students with information that will help them in the real world.

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