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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 CEO and Founder of Smart Gladiator. Smart Gladiator is an ATDC Georgia Tech company, Smart Gladiator's award-winning product LoadProof (https://feature.loadproof.com/loadproof) is an Enterprise Photo Documentation System that is enjoying tremendous traction in the Supply Chain Community. LoadProof (https://feature.loadproof.com/loadproof) is a patent pending Centralized Cloud based Enterprise Photo Documentation System for Supply Chain. It is built on the premise that photos and videos are vital documentation serving as compelling proof of important operations performed in the supply chain within and across organizations. These operations may be related to fulfilling customer orders, meeting contractual obligations, or transferring merchandise across different parties taking part in the Supply Chain operations. LoadProof is as important for your organization as an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) which is an enterprise system of record for critical documents such as Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Contracts between parties etc. that have tremendous legal ramifications, or a WMS (Warehouse Management System), that holds indispensable information related to orders shipment/fulfilment data. Just like Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat have evolved into platforms that enable individuals to showcase how pretty they or their clothes are, LoadProof is a similar Enterprise system of record that holds photos, not so much for show off, but to serve as compelling, unequivocal, thoroughly documented proof, even in the court of law when there is a dispute between organizations while they perform many facets of their functions/operations, as well as for increased visibility and transparency within the Supply Chain. The capabilities of LoadProof are discussed in detail in the next sections of the document below. LoadProof is live in 460+ Sites, 250+ corporates, 13 Countries.There are more testimonials in this link here also https://www.g2.com/products/loadproof/reviews. Learn more here on our YouTube channel,  https://youtube.com/@smartgladiatorloadproof  & also here in LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartgladiator/

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