This blog is for the people who want to know the various options available in the vast field of supply chain management. Supply chain or more recently called Value chain is the management of the flow of goods or services right from the raw material vendors to the end customers. It includes various interconnected networks, channels, nodes involved in the provision of delivering products and services.
SCM draws heavily from the Operations, Procurement, Logistics, Manufacturing Planning & Information Technology (mostly ERP). SCM has evolved with the various management techniques like JIT (Just in Time), Kanban, Lean Manufacturing, Network Optimization, Sales & Operation Planning, Green Supply Chain management, TOC (Theory of Constraints) etc.
Major career options available in the Domain SCM Area are:
Whereas the other career options related to the SCM are:
SCM draws heavily from the Operations, Procurement, Logistics, Manufacturing Planning & Information Technology (mostly ERP). SCM has evolved with the various management techniques like JIT (Just in Time), Kanban, Lean Manufacturing, Network Optimization, Sales & Operation Planning, Green Supply Chain management, TOC (Theory of Constraints) etc.
Major career options available in the Domain SCM Area are:
- Procurement / Sourcing
- Supply Chain Planning
- Production / Operations Planning
- Logistics
- Demand Planning
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Vendor Management etc.
Whereas the other career options related to the SCM are:
- ERP Functional Consulting (SAP, Oracle etc.)
- ERP Technical consulting (ABAP, PL/SQL in ERP Products)
- ERP Presales
- Business Consulting
- Business Analysts
- SCM Analytics
- Master Data Management
Usually there are cross functional requirements in various jobs in the market. Mostly in ERP consulting it is always preferred if the candidate has the domain knowledge / Experience. Also the people in the domain industries are required to have worked on major ERP / IT applications related to their domain. E.g. A Demand planner should be conversant in estimating the demand using highly complex applications like Oracle Demantra / SAP ATO.
In order to enhance the knowledge of the related areas following are some useful courses:
1) Experts who work in ERP / IT applications but lacks in domain experience can look into the following courses that can help to ameliorate their domain knowledge:
- CPIM (Certification in Production & Inventory Management from APICS)
- CSCP (Certification in Supply Chain management from APICS)
- CTL (Certification in Transportation & Logistics from ASTL)
- SCM Online courses from IIMs / top institutes
2) Similarly people with domain knowledge can enhance their ERP / IT skills with the help of following courses:
SAP Certification from partners like Genovate or Simens
Oracle Certification from Oracle University (In Bangalore / Hyderabad in India)
Online courses on ERP from reputed institutes
This cross functional learning will also help to switch the career in case the opportunity knocks the door :)
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