• Sophisticated techniques have been devised to expedite information flow, including on-board computers for trucks and ships, satellite tracking systems, and the electronic transmission of order and shipping information.
  • An understanding of supply chain management is an asset to any manager, and there is a strong demand for specialists in the area. Managers attracted to SCM enjoy the variety and challenges in the field, its sophisticated technology, and its importance to the overall economy and the global marketplace.
  • Entrants to the field look forward to an entrepreneurial environment and opportunities to deal with a wide array of people from a variety of organizations. SCM managers also like a hands-on approach. They use sophisticated decision tools, yet they can always envision the underlying physical processes-processes that are familiar enough to be taken for granted, yet subject to managerial initiative and rapid change.