Im extremely interested in supply chain, I have experience with vendor management, route optimization, purchase orders, etc. however, advanced math (like calculus or linear algebra) has never been my strongest suit. I just don’t want to apply to jobs I might not be qualified for….

Any am/oms every make the jump to work for a corporate company that contracts a 3pl to operate for them? What is your experience like?

Hello fellow members,

I, 25M have 3 years of work experience in Commercial and Investment Banking with my latest stint being with Goldman Sachs India. I have taken a career break as I’ve realised that finance is not the field for me.

I’ve been looking for options for MSc in Supply Chain management. I need to decide on a country to target. For Germany, I’ll have to learn German and for Canada I’ll have to learn French, so learning a language is a must.

I’m looking to build my career in supply chain there and my life as well. I’ve done research about Canada and Germany and both have its issues but not able to figure out which is better.

In terms of long-term stability and employment, which one would y’all recommend? Please do let me know.

my_qualifications: 3 years of experience in Goldman Sachs

Hey everyone,

I bought CSCP material from APICS back in 2024 but couldn’t prepare and didn’t have the exam.

now, I do have the study material but I am not sure how much of the syllabus has changed since then and I do not want to invest again as I have already wasted money in the past.

can someone please guide me if I can still study from the 2024 material and how can I update myself on the changes.

Thank you.

Sweating whew !

Hello! My sister graduated with an SCM degree this past spring and has been looking for FT roles in NJ/NYC. She only had a small 2 month internship with the school, but no other professional experiences. What projects could she do to stand out? She has no other relevant experiences or extracurriculars AFAIK.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice from anyone who has transitioned out of driving or has experience hiring in the supply chain field.

l've been an OTR driver for the past 4 years, but I'm ready to move into an office or management role. I just finished my Bachelor's in Business with a dual concentration in Supply Chain Management and Project Management Information Systems.

I want to leverage my hands-on transport experience and degree, but I'm not sure which specific job titles I should target.

Any suggestions on entry-level or transition roles that value OTR experience would be greatly appreciated!

Disclosure: I work at Picterra; we built it. It is free and needs no account.

EUDR applies from 30 December 2026 for large and medium operators, and the practical problem most people face is that country-level risk data doesn't tell you anything about the specific plot you are buying.

This gives you a read on any area on Earth in about ten seconds: forest cover at the end of 2020, clearance since then, land conversion emissions, erosion risk, fire and flood history, and climate projections to the 2040s.

To be clear about what it is not: it frames the area by zoom rather than reading a plot boundary, so it will not produce compliance evidence. It is a first look, not a due diligence file. Useful for deciding where to spend proper effort.

https://lens.picterra.ai/

Looking to get out of Service Management, I am highly self motivated, great with computers, excel, Word, typing, following metrics and data and forecasting using that data. I love diving into data and spread sheets, love writing operations manuals, looking at a system and finding and writing processes to smooth work flows and remove inefficiencies in getting work to the finish line. Does anyone have suggestions on what to pivot to make service manager money and lean on my skill set, good with vendors too and frustrated clients.

Hi.

I realize now that given my financial situation, a Master's in SC is not possible for me. I majored in Psychology as an undergrad and am worried that I won't be a competitive candidate for Demand Planner jobs.

I can probably get at least one certification from ASCM. What other relevant education can I add to my resume? Should I take SC classes at my local community college? Or should I enroll in this online program at Georgia Tech? (I've never been a student there.)

https://www.scl.gatech.edu/education/professional-education/supply-chain-fundamentals-series

Thanks!

Here's the situation: I am 40yo with some work experience as a Buyer, and looking to better my credentials.

I am currently one class away from finishing an Associate of Arts degree (general/non-specialized degree), but it will cost me roughly $3k to re-enroll and finish.

Or, for the same exact amount, I could buy/get the CSCP certification.

Which one would be more valuable for someone my age, in my situation, looking to eventually move forward/up in the field of procurement?

I’ve been working at Amazon as an area manager for almost 4 years now managing large teams of hourly associates in a high-volume environment. I’m starting to feel burned out by the shift work, dealing with hourly workers, and the warehouse environment in general.

I’m looking to transition to an office/ corporate job away from operations management. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m so burnt out I’m thinking of just resigning and taking 6 months off to up-skill and search for a new job. My current job pays well, I have no debts, low expenses, live at home, and have enough savings to last me a long time.

My background is a bachelor’s in business from a state university and a MBA from an online university (Western Governors University). For those who’ve made a similar transition:

Which roles are most realistic coming from ops leadership?

What skills should I focus on sharpening (SQL, Excel, Python, forecasting, etc.)?

Is an MBA from WGU viewed neutrally in supply chain recruiting?

Any advice on positioning my resume to avoid being “pigeonholed” as ops-only?

Appreciate any insight you can give especially from people who’ve moved out of front-line ops into corporate supply chain roles.

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,

We are looking to source 50,000 MT/monthly of granular sulfur for export to Egypt. We would like to connect with the direct supplier or their authorized representatives.

If you can help or have the right contacts, please reach out.

Thank you!

I’m an MBA/MS in supply chain looking for a summer internship and the only real-sounding advice I’ve received on how to do it is to exhaust every avenue and follow up with everybody, because the worst answer you can get is “after careful consideration of your application” or “how did you get in my house?!” and hey, I’ve got a thick skin.

So about me: I’m 37 and I was a cook and chef for 11 years before going back to get my master’s - for four years I ran a food truck and catering business where I did… everything, essentially (except accounting, my accountant saved my butt.) Right now I’m in my first semester and aside from coursework I’m competing in an international supply chain case competition about incorporating UN SDGs into a workable solution for a big problem (damage to vaccines in last mile delivery in India, specifically) which has taught me more about the supply chain of vaccines than I could have imagined learning.

I took a deep-dive cert class on Tableau, I can learn things very quickly, and as a career switcher I don’t take any opportunity for granted or assume any entry level work is beneath me. For a summer internship I can travel anywhere, long term I’m based in West PA. If anyone has any leads or suggestions I’m all ears, happy to send a resume on request as well. Thanks!

Hey guys,

Ops folks at forwarders: what does your BL checking actually look like? Side-by-side on two screens, a checklist, some tool, or do you trust the shipper and pray?

And how often does a mismatch (consignee, weights, container numbers, marks) slip through and cost you a correction fee or a delayed release?

Building something in this space and trying to understand how people really do it day to day.

I’m an Army vet that worked in logistics while I was in. I found out I love logistics and am pursuing a career in it. I work in a warehouse right now for a leading convenience store/gas station company in middle TN and am currently working on a degree in SCM. Does my army experience with logistics matter on a resume? I’m a part time student while also working two jobs and have a baby on the way, will I even be competitive in the job market if I can’t afford to take on an internship?

TLDR: army logistics vet. Does my experience matter? Am I competitive in the job market?

Hey! The company I work for has a lot of MPM openings. DM me if you’re looking 😊

Hello everyone,

Reaching out because I am stuck right now. I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in SCM and will be graduating in the spring. I am looking at supply chain jobs and applying to some, but so far it's not looking very bright.

For context, I worked in Amazon Operations for about 3.5 years before deciding to go back to school for a master's. I didn't enjoy the warehouse and people-manager side, but I loved the supply-chain part of the job and wanted to pursue it full-time. My bachelor's was in communications (ikik), so I decided that if I want to pursue supply chain as a career path, I need to go back to school and build my credentials.

My question is: what jobs/roles should I be looking into? What should I do as I approach graduation season?

Would love some insight from people working in the field. Thanks so much!

Hi all, supply chain student here. I am trying to understand how wholesale distribution actually works day to day, because I have a feeling what we learn in class is a bit too clean.

We study perpetual inventory, matching the PO to the receipt to the invoice, EDI with retailers, and chargebacks get mentioned as a small line in a slide. But the few people I have talked to who work at distributors say it is mostly supplier shipments that arrive short and nobody reconciles, retailer chargebacks you just pay because fighting them costs more, and credit memos that take weeks and a chain of emails.

So I want to ask people who actually do this: where does the time really go in a normal week? Is it receiving, returns, chargeback disputes, cycle counts, credit memos, backorder updates, something else entirely? What is the task that takes way more manual work or some homemade workaround than it should? And what is the daily headache that management or the ERP vendor never seems to get?

Would really appreciate any perspective from the warehouse or the office side. Thanks for reading.

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