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A solid, albeit somewhat generic/broad, overview for those looking to get acquainted with the supply chain field…Common Careers in Supply Chain Management: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/supply-chain-management-jobs/ ..."We sourced the below salary data from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM). Buyer/PlannerMedian Annual Salary: $72,800Required Education: Bachelor’s degreeJob Description: Buyers and planners work on the front lines of organizations’ supply chains. They create forecasts for demand, obtain and distribute products and maintain data to...

Wow, the Harvard Business Review (Delgado & Mills) called this right 5 years ago in 2018 (pre covid), well done. Why are supply chain industries the source of so many high-paying jobs and so much innovation? https://lnkd.in/grs9FUsw. Degree program fuels supply chain and logistics industry’s workforce of the future: https://lnkd.in/g65xNd9M. “Its bachelor’s degree gives students the chance to boost their average annual pay in the field to $87,280, compared with $49,689 for...

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.” Bridging the gap between supply chain management practice and curriculum: A location analytics exercise... Access via: https://ow.ly/kMci50PWU1K or see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dsji.12286 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dsji.12286 Are Supply Chain professionals using ArcGIS Pro technology? Do you think our SCM students should learn this? ArcGIS is a technology that can help companies...

…“improve the value they provide to both taxpayers and graduates…That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts majors like anthropology, women’s studies and German language and literature.”Can Humanities Survive the Budget Cuts?The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in…www.yahoo.com Ranked: Median Student Debt for a U.S....

Pasted below is a series of blogs that I wrote on how you can learn job saving technology... I recently had a student interview with several companies for supply chain internships.  Most of the companies were Fortune 500 types that placed a premium on business data analytics and the ability to use Excel in some very advanced ways.  We actually require all of our SCM majors to take a Predictive...

“In ISM’s 2023 Salary Survey, the reported overall average salary remained steady, dipping imperceptibly to $123,523, while the median salary rose 5.8 percent year over year, to $105,795. Except for 2021, average salary has mostly increased over the past five years for both women and men, though the pay gap between men and women persists, now at 25 percent.” https://lnkd.in/gwCWhhcE. Full disclosure, I had to look up the word:Im·per·cep·ti·bly/ˌimpərˈseptəblē/ adverb·  in a way...

FREE resources for Info on Suppliers, Customers, & Prospects. A WMU MBA Alum from our Taiwan Program & working in B2B industrial sales, offered the following list of free websites as a resource for research on competitors, customer supply chains, & prospect contact info. Many of these links may already be in your resource list, but if not, they can be helpful:https://lnkd.in/gV786uxYhttps://www.datanyze.com/https://lnkd.in/gqEUT3BBhttps://lnkd.in/gV2KB5dahttps://www.apollo.io/https://lnkd.in/gqR4ZPst Students, you can use this stuff for class....

Nice SCM salary report summary: https://lnkd.in/dTneTGgw. “Supply chain pros are making an avg of nearly $30K more/yr than the avg American, & are generally happy in their careers (ASCM)...The report found that the avg median supply chain salary is $98,570 (including base & additional compensation), up more than 3% from the previous year’s survey. The average median pay in the U.S. in Q4 of 2022 was equivalent to $56,420 annually, according...

Students:Feedback from former student on consulting jobs after graduation...Would you find a consulting job after graduation appealing? Hopefully, we are training our students to become consultants…to their own organization (i.e., problem-solvers).Hi Sime (from my former SCM student), First of all I want to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to work on research with you because that was a significant selling point when I interviewed for my current job...

Python is coming to Excel?!… Wow, as a supply chain professor that pushes data analytics on our students, I am trying to make sense of this. I suspect this is going to be a VERY big deal for our CIS faculty and students as they have been waiting for this kind of support for…2 decades? While Excel is powerful, it hasn’t provided “native” tools for adv analytics like ML. By...