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Question answered in Quora - What are my career options after a sustainable supply chain management

You could start as a Manager in any Third Party Logistics Company, there are plenty of these 3PLs needed nowadays because of the Ecommerce phenomenon because many physical product manufacturers want to focus only on their product and don't want to deal with the distribution part of their business. You can work your way up from there.

You could start as a manager for a company like Amazon or DHL or UPS.

Or even more challenging and exciting get into a consulting company that focuses on Supply Chain business, helping the 3PLs and Distributors deploy systems, spend about 5 years learn the business and start your own technology startup or a consulting practice. Supply Chain is one area where all these innovations that we are seeing in the consumer space has not made it through, so it will be exciting and of course challenging to bring those innovations into Supply Chain. There are plenty of opportunities if you are open to be creative, don't mind doing something challenging and open to taking a little bit of risk.

The latest thing that is happening is deploying wearables and even drones in Supply Chain, think about what will happen if manufacturing comes back to the US fully, Supply Chain will be even more significant.

Also think about what IOT and Data Proliferation and Analytics could do to Supply Chain. You could pick a Supply Chain that focuses on sustainable aspects with the sustainable part of your degree.

Also check out my book Puga Sankara's Supply Chain Blog - that is a must read before spending Hundreds & Thousands of $$$ on your MBA or Masters Degree to get the best ROI or before starting your Entrepreneurial journey.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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