Supply Chain Management is a system that contains multiple entities, processes and activities from suppliers to customers.
I like to introduce my current and future job with an article from Jason Whittaker in SupplyChain Review Magazine- January 2007.
It’s not sexy, but it’s all in the pitch
It’s not easy working for a supply chain publication. Most people don’t even know what supply chain is. You know the feeling. At social occasions, family gatherings. I’m in supply chain; I’m a logistics manager; I’m a procurement officer. Blank looks and general bemusement ensure.
You know the supply chain sector is booming, that it offers dynamic, rewarding pathways in a surprisingly diverse range of job positions, that it offers a very comfortable living (for many very comfortable indeed).
Most don’t know. And that’s problem. It is sexy, as so many people insist on trying to make it? Not really. But short of Hollywood staring movie rolls, how many jobs are?
It’s certainly sexier than working in a dusty quarry or stuffy computer lab, where the pay packets might be heftier but the opportunities for career advancement are much more limited. Really, it should be a pretty easy sell. But in an increasingly tight, increasingly competitive labour market it’s not going to sell itself…
