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
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