Supply Chain Management Today
When companies need to produce and transport product they need product supply management people. This job is the most important job for a country to be ran. There always is going to be jobs available in managing and making sure product gets where it needs to be.
Supply Chain Management Careers
1. Director Supply Chain: This position is responsible for establishing the strategic direction and oversees overall activities of Supply Chain SC
2. Chain Manager: Management of upstream and downstream relationships between suppliers and customers to deliver the best value to the customer at the least cost to the demand chain as a whole.
3. Warehouse Supivisor: Concerned with keeping the flow of goods in and out of the warehouse smooth.
4. Transportation Manager: cordinates the transportation of goods from place to place.
5. Division Supply Chain Manager: Develop and manages the direction and daily activities of the Division's materials and services with the focus on people, organization, process and information technology.
2. Chain Manager: Management of upstream and downstream relationships between suppliers and customers to deliver the best value to the customer at the least cost to the demand chain as a whole.
3. Warehouse Supivisor: Concerned with keeping the flow of goods in and out of the warehouse smooth.
4. Transportation Manager: cordinates the transportation of goods from place to place.
5. Division Supply Chain Manager: Develop and manages the direction and daily activities of the Division's materials and services with the focus on people, organization, process and information technology.
Supply Chain Management Mentor:
Kerwyn Smith Product Supply Manager Frito-lay (360) 573-0640
Questions:
Q. What are your projections for this type of work or industry? Is it stable, growing, declining?
A. With companies and there many products there is always going to be people to coordinate and plan the supply of product. There is thought jobs in factories and product supply lines that are being taken over by computers.
Q. What and where are the opportunities?
A. Many of the opportunities are in the management positions. There are a lot of jobs in production, shipping, monitoring, and analyzing what happens.
Q. What are typical salaries in this type of job, entry-level to experienced? What are the opportunities for career growth?
A. Typically beginning jobs are $40,000 - $60,000. In higher management positions you can get up to $100,000.
Q. When and how did you get involved in this work?
A. I went to Michigan Tech for two years and then to BYU for two and a half years to get my civil Engineering Degree. I was offered a job with Frito-Lay and moved to california. I was working in the Finance Division office of the West division. I did analysis and business proposals. I was then offered a job in Vancouver Washington and decided to be the Product supply Person.
A. How important are specific credentials for entry or success?
Q. When I hired my assistant I looked for a college degree and someone that is a self starter. Credentials are really important because we hire the best people in our company.
Q. What’s a typical day like for you or someone in a similar position?
A. I go to my office and Start looking at the emails that i have. Then i usually have a conference meeting and start the projects that i have. Most of the work that I do are analysis forecasting and preparing for up coming events or promotions. After a long day of work i go home and start it all over again.
Q. What do you like most about your work?
A. I like the variety and projects that i do. I have many little assessments or problems that i work on and get done. So things can be different from day to day.
Q. What do you like least?
A. I don't like the e-mail that i get every day. We tend to send and communicate thought e-mail. you could spend half of your day just going thought the e-mail but you try not to spend a lot of time on it because you got other things to do.
Q. How do you advance or get promoted in this type of work?
A. It is like I got promoted. You work hard and prove your self and then sometime you will get another job
offer and work somewhere different.
Q. Knowing what you do now, would you approach this career (or job) in the same way? If not, what would you do differently, and why?
A. If i were to change my career i would be a civil engineer but here in vancouver it is hard because most of the year it is always raining and not much dry weather. other than that I love what i do and wouldn't change to a different career.
Questions:
Q. What are your projections for this type of work or industry? Is it stable, growing, declining?
A. With companies and there many products there is always going to be people to coordinate and plan the supply of product. There is thought jobs in factories and product supply lines that are being taken over by computers.
Q. What and where are the opportunities?
A. Many of the opportunities are in the management positions. There are a lot of jobs in production, shipping, monitoring, and analyzing what happens.
Q. What are typical salaries in this type of job, entry-level to experienced? What are the opportunities for career growth?
A. Typically beginning jobs are $40,000 - $60,000. In higher management positions you can get up to $100,000.
Q. When and how did you get involved in this work?
A. I went to Michigan Tech for two years and then to BYU for two and a half years to get my civil Engineering Degree. I was offered a job with Frito-Lay and moved to california. I was working in the Finance Division office of the West division. I did analysis and business proposals. I was then offered a job in Vancouver Washington and decided to be the Product supply Person.
A. How important are specific credentials for entry or success?
Q. When I hired my assistant I looked for a college degree and someone that is a self starter. Credentials are really important because we hire the best people in our company.
Q. What’s a typical day like for you or someone in a similar position?
A. I go to my office and Start looking at the emails that i have. Then i usually have a conference meeting and start the projects that i have. Most of the work that I do are analysis forecasting and preparing for up coming events or promotions. After a long day of work i go home and start it all over again.
Q. What do you like most about your work?
A. I like the variety and projects that i do. I have many little assessments or problems that i work on and get done. So things can be different from day to day.
Q. What do you like least?
A. I don't like the e-mail that i get every day. We tend to send and communicate thought e-mail. you could spend half of your day just going thought the e-mail but you try not to spend a lot of time on it because you got other things to do.
Q. How do you advance or get promoted in this type of work?
A. It is like I got promoted. You work hard and prove your self and then sometime you will get another job
offer and work somewhere different.
Q. Knowing what you do now, would you approach this career (or job) in the same way? If not, what would you do differently, and why?
A. If i were to change my career i would be a civil engineer but here in vancouver it is hard because most of the year it is always raining and not much dry weather. other than that I love what i do and wouldn't change to a different career.
Key Supply Chain Terms
Lead time: The time that it would take a supplier to delivery goods after receipt of order.
Cycle time: the time that transpires from the time a task (or series of tasks) is initiated to the time a task is completed.
JIT: A cluster of manufacturing, design, and delivery practices designed to continually reduce all types of waste, thereby improving production efficiency. Kit. A group of components needed to assemble a finished product that has been clustered together for delivery to the shop floor.
Lean Production: The technique of stripping all non-value-added activities from the production process, thereby using the minimum possible amount of resources to accomplish manufacturing goals.
SPC: Statistical process control (SPC) involves using statistical techniques to measure and analyze the variation in processes.
Six Sigma: A statistical concept that represents the amount of variation present relative to customer requirements or specifications.
Logistics: the system of people and things that are involved in getting a product from the place where it is made to the person who buys it.
Inventory control: supervision of the supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply.
SKU: a number or string of alpha and numeric characters that uniquely identify a product.
Level Loading: A Technique used to balance production throughput according to the needs of customers.
RFID: Acronym for Radio Frequency Identification. It is the basis for small radio transmitters that emit an RFID to receiver devices. The transmitter is a tiny tag, storing a unique product identification code that is transmitted and used for inventory tracking.
Cycle time: the time that transpires from the time a task (or series of tasks) is initiated to the time a task is completed.
JIT: A cluster of manufacturing, design, and delivery practices designed to continually reduce all types of waste, thereby improving production efficiency. Kit. A group of components needed to assemble a finished product that has been clustered together for delivery to the shop floor.
Lean Production: The technique of stripping all non-value-added activities from the production process, thereby using the minimum possible amount of resources to accomplish manufacturing goals.
SPC: Statistical process control (SPC) involves using statistical techniques to measure and analyze the variation in processes.
Six Sigma: A statistical concept that represents the amount of variation present relative to customer requirements or specifications.
Logistics: the system of people and things that are involved in getting a product from the place where it is made to the person who buys it.
Inventory control: supervision of the supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply.
SKU: a number or string of alpha and numeric characters that uniquely identify a product.
Level Loading: A Technique used to balance production throughput according to the needs of customers.
RFID: Acronym for Radio Frequency Identification. It is the basis for small radio transmitters that emit an RFID to receiver devices. The transmitter is a tiny tag, storing a unique product identification code that is transmitted and used for inventory tracking.