Supply Chain management

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a subset or skill, not a major. Get foundational skills, like engineering or business, and then a certificate in supply chain management.

Agreed. Engineering degree (Industrial) can give you many more future career opportunities and security.

[Anonymous]

Join the military to get this skill.

[Anonymous]

SIL went to Michigan State, started in engineering. Pivoted to a less intense, more niche major -- packaging. MSU has a School of Packaging, separate from the School of Engineering. She worked on cool projects, important projects. Extending the self-life of milk, for example. Boxed milk with no need for refrigeration, provided to third world countries. Btw, for niche majors, there are still plenty of liberal arts credits you need. It isn't all niche.

[Anonymous]

More universities should have more I-just-missed-getting-into-engineering majors. More choices for the math/science talent out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SIL went to Michigan State, started in engineering. Pivoted to a less intense, more niche major -- packaging. MSU has a School of Packaging, separate from the School of Engineering. She worked on cool projects, important projects. Extending the self-life of milk, for example. Boxed milk with no need for refrigeration, provided to third world countries. Btw, for niche majors, there are still plenty of liberal arts credits you need. It isn't all niche.

That actually sounds really practical. Niche, yes...but I'm sure needed by a lot of companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a subset or skill, not a major. Get foundational skills, like engineering or business, and then a certificate in supply chain management.

+1 I was a lawyer who previously worked as a management consultant, and I rather easily became the head of Procurement and Logistics at my agency.

[Anonymous]

AMZN is positioning for SCM to go AI...same with their warehousing and distribution channels. Nothing will be spared in the AI quest for limitless greed/profit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a subset or skill, not a major. Get foundational skills, like engineering or business, and then a certificate in supply chain management.

+1 I was a lawyer who previously worked as a management consultant, and I rather easily became the head of Procurement and Logistics at my agency.

Good for you for getting out of the practice of law. I'm too far gone

[Anonymous]

The brutal fact is monopolies like AMZN set the standards and everyone else is just fodder for the grinder.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/transform-supply-chain-logistics-with-agentic-ai/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have a kid who is studying or graduated with this degree? Would they recommend the program? Happy with internships and/or jobs?

I live in Michigan. Michigan State’s supply chain program is always rated highly. It’s a popular major for kids we know, & they all got good jobs, some overseas.

[Anonymous]

I think this used to be called systems engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this used to be called systems engineering.

No.

[Anonymous]

I worked in CPG for 20 years. Loved working with the package engineers, food scientists and supply chain team. Many from Michigan State. All cool jobs that seem stable. I don't see how AI can do a valuable sourcing analysis. It currently cannot do financial analysis even with painstaking spoon feeding of the data. Supply chain and procurement also have many other soft variables outside of the financials that would make AI difficult.