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Management and Marketing

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Program Details

  • Campus Availability: Macomb, Quad Cities, Online
  • Coursework incorporates corporate best practices and hands-on experience in working with faculty and top executives and in utilizing course knowledge within the corporate environment
  • °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼'s SCM program offers a unique area of concentration for undergraduate students that has garnered widespread recognition due to the quality of its graduates
  • Elements of SCM
    • Strategic Sourcing: a key aspect of supply chain management, involves purchasing budgets, the supply market, supplier negotiation, and assessments of supply transactions
    • Transportation: management of successful transportation that gets everything to where it is needed, when it is needed
    • Distribution: movement of goods and services from the source through a distribution channel to the final customer and the movement of payment back to the supplier
    • Risk Management: directing the activities necessary to reduce, eliminate or mitigate the impact of factors that could lead to injury, loss, damage or failure
    • Inventory Management: decisions involved in determining how much, where, and when to have finished goods appear at numerous points throughout a firm's production and logistics channel

Please refer to the undergraduate catalog for detailed program information and course requirements

Careers

Career opportunities in SCM are exciting, challenging, and rapidly expanding.

  • Commodity Merchandiser
  • Customer Service Coordinator
  • Demand Planner
  • Director of Brand Development
  • Inventory Specialist
  • Marketing Administrator
  • Materials Buyer
  • Ocean Export Specialist
  • Outreach and Enrollment Specialist
  • Plant Manager
  • Project Coordinator
  • Vendor Returns Specialist

Employers

Companies around the world are looking for SCM graduates, and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼ is one of the few colleges or universities in the world that offers this degree. Each year, dozens of top companies recruit °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼ graduates. In addition to full-time jobs, these companies seek °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÀúÊ·¼Ç¼ students as paid interns and for part-time employment, which often leads to a full-time career with excellent starting salaries.

  • Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
  • Allstate
  • Caterpillar
  • Cobham Mission Systems
  • Colony Brands Inc.
  • Dot Foods
  • Group O
  • HON Company
  • Hub Group
  • JB Hunt
  • John Deere
  • Monsanto
  • Rock Island Arsenal
  • State Farm
  • Target
  • Trinity Logistics
  • ULINE