Anyone majored/working in Operations/Supply Chain Management?

DarkKnight666
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:12:39 +0000

Ok, well I attend a somewhat renown private school. Its MS SCM program (which I did get into but still considering going through with it) is ranked among the best in the country (and possibly world?) according to Wikipedia. The program has a 100% job placement rate and admissions statistics on par with top MBA and other Master’s programs, with an average undergraduate GPA of about 3.6 and average GMAT of 720.

And why wouldn’t you consider it new? I think first uses of it dated only back to WWII-era; the term wasn’t heard of by the public until a consultant from Booz Allen coined it in 1982, and it didn’t become very well-known until the 90s. At least relative to Finance/Accounting (which have been around since ancient times), that’s pretty new. Speaking of which, how exactly did your school even teach it in the 60s? Was it called something else back then?

But it does matter what people think. This economy is terrible and there have been no signs of it getting better. It matters now more than ever to be wise of what we should major in.

Aside from all that, ever since the dawn of the digital age, the demand for programmers and anyone with computer background spiked and is still high today. As more and more companies increase the complexity of supply chains and internal operations, do you think SCM is going to become as hot as computer science?

Also, it’s funny you mentioned Microsoft, because my professor once used that example to show why we should major in this field. Microsoft used to have only 2 tracks to climb the corporate ladder: business track and the technical track. They now have a 3rd track: operations. He also mentioned (though I still question its credibility) that more CEOs today are coming from SCM backgrounds.