The increase in demand has prompted many universities to offer undergraduate courses, MBA courses and even all degree courses in procurement, inventory management and international supply chain strategy in the near future.
The news that frozen beef products in Europe contain horse meat and transparent yoga pants explains this demand well. Rick. Rick Brasgen is the Chairman and Director-General of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, an industry organization. He said that the position of supply chain management in cross-industry companies has changed from? Bitter medicine? Become? Core competitiveness? .
Supply chain includes production, transportation, distribution and other logistics processes, and also involves the consideration of operability and economy in each process.
In the past few years, many companies have experienced growth pains while increasing overseas suppliers and shipping their products to the international market. The success of fast fashion brands Zara, Forever 2 1 depends on ensuring storage with shorter transportation cycle and paying more attention to data analysis, thus improving efficiency. This case makes many companies regard the supply chain as the key to success or failure.
Bryant University's Business School, located in Smithfield, Rhode Island, opened an undergraduate minor in supply chain management about four years ago, and added undergraduate and MBA majors last fall. Courses include international procurement, social responsibility in supply chain and practical consulting projects.
Teresa, head of the international supply chain management course at Bryant University? Teresa McCarthy said, employer? What we need is not a patchwork course, but a practical and substantial supply chain course? .
Nearly 65,438+050 undergraduates and MBA students in this business school have been pursuing advanced studies in this field, and employers have also maintained a high degree of concern. Many companies, including General Dynamics Corp and Target Corp, have invited students from Bryant University for interviews and internships.
Bryant University has also joined the university alliance project run by software company SAP AG, so that students can practice the logistics technology needed in their future work. In the past 18 months, more than 250 schools in SAP have joined the program, and now there are more than 1 3,000 cooperative institutions.
The Business School of Rutgers University in New Jersey opened the MBA course of supply chain management more than ten years ago, and opened the undergraduate program on 20 10 to meet the needs of employers and undergraduates. So far, there are 450 registered students in this major in this college, and the courses include transportation, contract management and even packaging methods. Lei Lei, director of supply chain management and marketing department of Rutgers University Business School, said that the main companies recruited by Rutgers University Business School are Dell and Johnson & Johnson; Johnson) and Panasonic Corporation.
Deloitte LLP started a pilot project for students majoring in supply chain on 20 10 to meet its fast-growing supply chain and manufacturing consulting business. The program recruits 15 to 20 MBA students from several schools including Pennsylvania State University and Arizona State University every year.
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores Inc hopes that the employees in charge of the supply chain will be competent quickly after taking office. The company said that their responsibilities include inventory management, such as deciding how many cleaning strips and photo frames to purchase for each store; There is also supply chain analysis, which emphasizes management, analysis and execution efficiency.
Michaels has about 40,000 different products, which are sold in 1, 100 stores in the United States and Canada. Tom, executive vice president in charge of supply chain? Tom DeCaro said that it is difficult to predict what kind of goods customers need. Sometimes they need to stock up quickly to meet the recent knitting craze, so it is necessary to establish a convenient passage from the factory to the shelves.
Because the supply chain graduates are in short supply, the income level is also considerable.
The supply of supply chain talents continues to increase
With the complexity of transnational operations, manufacturing, retail and technology enterprises and consulting companies serving them are all competing for talents in supply chain management. The following table is the newly set supply chain management courses in some universities.
School location course start year
University of Houston (C.T. Bauer Business School) Houston Supply Chain Management MBA20 1 1.
Rutgers University Business School, Newark, New Jersey and New Brunswick, Supply Chain Management Undergraduate 20 1 1
Bryant University Business School in Smithfield, Rhode Island, majoring in international supply chain management and MBA20 12.
School of Business and Public Administration, University of Illinois at Park, MBA online course 20 13.
Master of Science in International Supply Chain Management, School of Business, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 20 13
Master of Science in Supply Chain Management, Nelly School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 20 13.
University of North Carolina Kennan-flagler Business School, North Carolina Chapel Hill, Tsinghua University, Kennan-flagler Business School International Supply Chain Leadership Program, MBA degree; Master of Engineering Management in Tsinghua University 20 13
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Los Angeles International Supply Chain Management Online Course 20 13
Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management, W.P. Carey Business School, Tempe, Arizona; Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and Operation 20 14
At Arizona State University, the average starting salary of 20 12 supply chain graduates is $564 10, while the average salary of business graduates is $50,098. As for the level of MBA, the starting salary of students in charge of operation or supply chain work is 9748 1, while the average salary of MBA is 92556.
Zach is 22 years old. Zach Freeman graduated from Nelly Business School of Texas Christian University in May this year with a double degree in supply chain management and entrepreneurship management. He said that he was competed by many companies in America.
However, Freeman applied his knowledge of operation and logistics to more private fields. His moving company in Dallas-Fort Worth will open at the end of June, but he said; ? It is easy to find a job, but it is too painful to refuse them. ?
Many organizations also target practitioners who are in the middle of their careers and want to improve their supply chain management skills.
Nelly Business School has offered undergraduate and MBA courses in supply chain management for about 65,438+00 years. This autumn, the Master of Science course in supply chain management will be added for practitioners with 5 to 65,438+05 working experience.
Last autumn, the Kennan-flagler School of Business of the University of North Carolina and Tsinghua University jointly offered a dual-degree course, and the first batch of 23 middle and senior managers in China were recruited.
At the same time, the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California announced at the beginning of this year that they will start to recruit the first batch of international MSC students in supply chain management, who will teach online in the fall, and the Business School of Portland State University will also offer similar courses.
These courses for experienced managers are very popular. Chris, head of the new curriculum at Portland State University? Allen said,? Its target group is those who are experienced. ?
The business school said that although many new courses were offered, employers were still not satisfied.
David, director of the supply chain management department of Broad School of Business, Michigan State University? David cross said? I don't think the supply of talents is likely to be saturated in the short term. ?
Yuanda Business School began to teach supply chain related courses nearly 60 years ago, and now has undergraduate and MBA programs in supply chain management, and provides master programs for people with work experience. Close said that they are also considering setting up an online master's degree.