M5 A2 Discussion

M5_A2 Discussion

Lauren Hernandez posted Aug 16, 2018 8:49 PM

A career path that I would choose related to Supply Chain is Supply Chain Manager. I selected this particular career because I have four years of experience with supply chain management processes through my time in the Marine Corps. While in the Marines, I learned everything about warehousing, inventory, shipping to and from different facilities and I was in charge of two sections in the warehouse and 10 other employees. I’m familiar with doing reports and finding discrepancies. My only concerns about the career is that nothing I did in the military would remotely relate to becoming a supply chain manager and that the fact that I don’t have a degree in supply chain management will hinder my ability to perform or be chosen for that position. 

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Bradley Wedekind-Flores posted Aug 10, 2018 4:36 PM

Supply Chain Careers

Because I will graduate in a few years; it looks like most jobs today and those that will be around in the next few years are centered on technology.  Technology is changing all aspects of business, especially the supply chain jobs.   I lookup up supply chain careers that are going to be big in the future; according to O’Marah (2016) one of these careers is a demand planner.  A demand plan will be:

Equipped with cloud-based planning systems, real-time drill down to transactions and learning algorithms the demand planner of the future becomes a business creator. Empowered to prioritize, analyze and solve supply-demand balancing problems at the transaction level, this career will reward those able to figure out who gets expedited and who gets shorted while there’s still time. Excellence will be defined by commercial impact, not just forecast accuracy or perfect order. (para. 8)