I am wondering which job areas or titles have the most openings in renewable energy. I'm currently a logistics coordinator but also have Post Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain & Logistics as part of my MBA path (I've taken all of the core MBA SCM class requirements). I am looking for a new job and am open to moving into procurement, sourcing, etc. if I can't find a Logistics focused job. I'm curious what those of you who are working in the solar, battery, wind, biofuels, etc. are seeing as new jobs are posted.

Hi ladies and gents, I need some career advice.

my current employer mandated return to office end of 2023 and I've been dreading since then. It's a small family owned company and nepotism is really obvious. But the pay is good, great benefits.

My boss is great and gives me flexibility. In the past 5 years, I've accomplished a lot and there is not much to grow professionally.

I have another job offer which pays 6% more, and I get to WFH 4 days a week. The department is restructured recently and it seems a lot to be organized/ done (it could be a messy situation from whay i gathered in the interview). The company had another layoff in March and I was told it was mainly ppl production.

I'm currently a procurement manager and new job is catagory manager. Jobs responsibilities are similar and I actually think I'll be doing less in the new role.

Which direction should I take? Thanks in advance.

I got an offer at a large Canadian grocery chain for an operational coordinator role. I would be overlooking a team of people in the warehouse and managing KPIs/work flow.

I’m wondering if this is a good role to start my career post-grad?

I have previous experience in a similar role at a smaller company and enjoyed it, but the 10 hours on your feet really wore me down after a year. My other experience consists of a category management/procurement co-op at a large O&G company.

I’d like to pivot to analyst/buyer roles in the future. I want to make sure I’m not trapping myself in a manual labour, warehouse job and that I’ll be getting invaluable experience for my career.

So I’m in the final stage of interviews for a role that pays about $15k more than my current salary. I dont want to get my hopes up but just been trying to think if switching jobs right now is worth it in the long term. I’m only 2 years out of college and make about $70k and with quarter bonuses, I make around $75ish right now but we have a 4% 401k match and a profit share system that goes into my 401k which maxes out at 10%. I have to stay 3 years for it so if I hypothetically get the new job, I’d be missing out on $15-20k.

I guess I’m just wondering if its worth sticking it out for one more year rather than taking the higher base salary. New company does a 4% match as well but I’m assuming it would be the same 3 years of service before it officially becomes mine. I know the job market sucks right now and theres no guarantee that a job that pays higher would be open once I hit my 3 years but I do have at least some comfort in knowing that at the least I’m able to interview for higher paying roles which I personally feel I would be more qualified to take after another year under my belt. Been dealing with imposter syndrome during this interview process given that the role is for a senior position

I am currently studying supply chain in college I am curious about the starting pay average, and how it changes over time with experience. I heard it starts out around 70-80k commonly, but I also heard as low as 40-50k.

I'll be graduating in a month and starting my first operations job at Wayfair this fall! I'm wondering if anyone has insight or guidance on what team area I should try to join from the ones stated below. I'm curious whether a certain team area may have more future pay potential, industry demand, or flexibility for my career!

Possible Team Placements Include:

Castlegate Forwarding

CastleGate Forwarding is a digital freight forwarding organization within Wayfair's broader CastleGate Logistics network. We offer a full suite of shipping services that aims to provide Wayfair suppliers with competitive and convenient logistics solutions.

Corporate Service

The global corporate service teams are responsible for setting the standards on how we deliver an excellent experience to our customers. They identify customer channel disconnects, drive improvements for a smooth and frictionless customer experience, recommend technology solutions, and train our frontline agents.

Corporate Supply Chain

Wayfair's Corporate Supply Chain (CSC) team is a network of interconnected global departments that support the journey of a product once an order is placed. This includes teams that manage all aspects of the Transportation & Delivery function, teams that support the frontline operations, and teams that manage and monetize Returns & Incidents. The objective of the CSC team is to get orders to customers' homes quickly, reliably, and conveniently, while enhancing the customer experience by preventing and reducing product defects. As a part of the CSC team, you will have an important role in accomplishing our mission: delivering cost-efficient perfect orders at scale. 

Global Partner Support

The Global Partner Support Team makes sure that our Partners focus on what they do best - leaving the rest to us. We act as the voice of the Partner across the organization. We provide our Partners with the day to day support needed to ensure they delight our customers and win online with Wayfair. We identify areas where we need to do better, and eliminate  issues at source across the organization. We co-develop self service solutions to ensure suppliers have the tools to operate independently. We provide frontline service support, replying and resolving challenges across our suppliers and carriers.

Planning & Inventory Management

Planning and Inventory Management (PIM) drives Wayfair’s top and bottom line by partnering with our suppliers to deliver high availability across CastleGate, physical retail, & dropship. PIM is at the forefront of building innovative and scalable solutions that provide a unique, competitive advantage for Wayfair and unlock value for our supplier partners. By leveraging our proprietary technology, fulfillment and delivery networks and supply chain services, we reduce costs, increase speed of delivery and ensure a reliable consumer experience. We solve complex problems across operations, analytics, and insights to achieve rapid growth.

Planning & Analytics

Wayfair’s Planning & Analytics  team consists of four interrelated teams: Network management, Operations Analytics , Operations Performance Management/Global Analytics Tech , and Operations Research (OR).  Together, these teams deliver insights and support capability development that cuts across the other functional areas and helps us make better decisions across various time horizons, and drive overall network performance/network outcomes. This includes, for example: (a) driving operational planning and coordination across all functional areas for our order-to-delivery chain, (b) shaping long-term strategy and network design, (c) providing the single source of truth for performance across Operations, and (d) applying advanced optimization techniques to enable automated, yet high-quality operational decisions at scale.

What are the supply chain softwares I can get used to?and Specifically for procurement what are the softwares I can learn to get a benefit in my job sector?

Except excel!!

Hello there,

I am currently a senior year university student studying Computer Science.

My professor gave us a task to learn and code a Transport Management Software.

Its function is to track cargo from point A to point C, using Truck A. (example)

I don’t know where to start, therefore asking here.

Any recommendations for a free or open source logistics software ?

If there is anyone in here that previously was an Area Manager with Amazon, where did that experience lead you to? Doesn’t even need to be Amazon, but even other warehouses for operations. Do you recommend staying here building more experience? Were you able to land analyst roles, etc?

From my experience so far, it’s a lot of people management on my side, which is annoying cause some of these people don’t give a shit about their jobs, which feels like I’m babysitting grown children. I manage around 30 people in my department, and have to keep track of a lot of metrics and flow of operations.

Prior to graduation, I’ve done co-ops in the automotive industry in purchasing and supplier development. Any tips?

As a fresher who is just starting their career in supply chain analytics, I wanted to know few tips from someone who’s been in the industry for sometime and has an idea on what are the crucial skills required in this field.

Any specific Knowledge? Software? Tool? Or even soft skills as such??

Your input on this would be really helpful and appreciated! Thank you

Good Evening,

I have about 10 years experience in logistics management from FedEx, UPS, and Yellow. Looking to cross over into supply chain field. Preferably supply chain analyst or planner among some of my interest. I know the field are somewhat similar in nature. How can someone with my experience and background get their foot in the door in the field of supply chain?

Hello,

Thought you guys might be the right sub to ask for this kind of question.

I am a US citizen located in California, but I recently started working for a company in Japan. I am their salesman for the US and the only overseas employee. There is the expectation that I will relocate to Japan once my visa finishes processing. There are a few things that have raised question marks for me and I would appreciate your advice if what I'm contributing to is against US law.

My company sells gloves to the restaurant/hospitality industry. We currently import containers full of Nitrile gloves as medical disposable products (that I believe are taxed at 8%). When I asked for clarification on this since we were procuring the gloves for obviously non-medical companies; I was told that it's because importing them as non-medical would nearly double the import tax. I would be surprised if that's really a legal loophole, but I don't have the knowledge of import/exports to fact check it. My company has a bank account in New York, but does not have a physical location within the US. We outsource our warehousing and shipping to a 3rd party.

On top of this, I noticed we don't charge sales tax to any of our customers (whether it be an independent restaurant or a reseller). I asked about this and was told since we are importing and don't have a physical location we are exempt from charging sales tax. I would again be surprised that that's the case, but I just don't have the experience to know.

Are either of these things something I need to be concerned about legally? Should I be jumping ship ASAP?

Thank you in advance, happy to give more information if needed.

EDIT: Since there is some conflicting information in the comments, I thought I would put some more information here.

The gloves are medical grade, our end customers (who we know will be the end customer prior to importing) are not using them for medical purposes. Our customers are throughout the US, not really central to any particular state. I'm not worried about the gloves being used for food, I'm worried about us bringing them in at a lower tax rate than what we're legally required to.

I’m about to graduate with a BA in Economics and I was wondering what kind of books would you recommend for supply chain professionals (especially warehousing managers where I’m currently looking for entry level jobs). Bonus points for podcasts, huge planet money enthusiast here.

Hello and Thank you in advance to all.

I am looking to break into the world of IM-EX. I imported a car, not saying that makes me the most qualified, but i would love to get into other areas of IM-EX. i have a background in sales and great over the phone and getting what needs to be done done despite the odds and trying to figure out how you all got started and maybe some tips for looking for my first deal?

For context, I am a buyer/production scheduler at lets call a chemical manufacturer, my department is supply chain.

One of our biggest focuses is our service goal, so making sure that we are making what the customer needs and have it in stock for when they need it; in scheduling we work around capacities and constraints to optimize both service and volume.

Ops on the other hand is solely focused on volume and productivity. They only want to make the easy products so that their numbers look great, and skip over the complex products; this often leaves us in a very bad position for service when things are skipped day after day and throws off our buying patters which can lead to excess product that cost hundreds per day if not consumed.

We schedule to have the best of both worlds but ops doesn't see it this way. This has caused a lot of tension between our two departments. Any other buyers or production schedulers run into this issue? How do you attack this within your organization?

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Someone from “Purchasing and Procurment Center” reached out to me about courses and testing for the CIPM. Does anyone have any experience with them? The pricing didn’t seem too bad if it includes the test.

Hey folks. So I have five years of experience as an editor and two years as a team lead (for the same editing company). However I was laid off last October and I after applying to countless jobs, I’m thinking of leaving the media industry as the job market is horrible. Anyway, I’m thinking of doing the Better Jobs Ontario program and studying a Supply Chain/Logistics course but the program needs to be one year for me to avail funding from Better Jobs. I was wondering what the job market is like for someone like me who will be completely new to the industry. Will it be easy to get a job if I successfully complete the one year program? I am assuming some of my work experience will be useful. As an editorial team lead, I was also a project coordinator who managed digital products for clients and also managed people.

Any advice will be really useful. I’m in Toronto btw.

Has anyone here graduated from the University of Arkansas with supply chain. I’m thinking about majoring in it. I’ve heard that there a pretty decent school for supply chain and was wondering what y’all’s opinion is?

Hi everyone,

I'm graduating soon and I'm starting to think about my job search. I'm curious to hear from others in the field - how long did it take you to land your first supply chain job after graduation?

Were there any specific things you did that helped you find a position quickly (e.g., certifications)?

Any advice for a new grad like me would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

I have a final round interview for a cost accountant role at a manufacturing company making medical devices next week. Most of the work actually wouldn't be the typical month-end close GL stuff, which is nice because that work is tedious and boring, but more with working alongside supply chain since the job would be located in an office next to the manufacturing plant. My guess is that we would work with planning and procurement. The manager did say he liked my experience as a buyer intern as well as my public accounting (audit) experience. I would be working with their ERP system a lot.

I've been struggling to find a role though this role pays a bit less than my current job (audit). I plan to try to ask for at least 5-10k more than the range if I am offered, but I plan to walk away if they can't meet it. Has anyone been able to transfer as I don't see myself staying at a company too long with not many growth opportunities. But I don't want to stay in accounting at all. I figure this could be a stepping stone to get me into the world of SC since it's so hard to find a job right now. I could always wait for a direct role though but they've been tough to even get interviews for. Everywhere requires experience and I don't have much.

Supply Chain case study is hella interesting, I like reading the failure and successful cases, for example: I've been reading the Nike's i2 forecasting system failure and also dell successful system etc.

I'm so new and inexperienced in this area so I look forwards to your replies, lets share which ones you think they're interesting/useful.

I’ve been using very basic AI to help me with my job, specifically using AI chat bots to help me with presentations, writing KPIs and SLAs and processing data. Nothing crazy.

I can definitely quantify the time this saved me, but is this too basic and/or not appropriate to be advertising on my resume?

Or would this sound like I’m just trying to fluff up my resume cause in all honestly I understand the applications of AI in supply chain and basic chat bot tasks but don’t have the slightest clue how to write machine learning code or implementation strategies.

Do I have any fellow medical supply chain people here? What challenges are you facing? How do you stay on top of everything? How do you stay calm?

How much has your salary grown since you graduated from college? What was your starting salary and how long did it take to increase it significantly. Also, did this increase lead to more hours?'

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Thanks!

Found on another sub but decided to post here to see what are some good paths in supply chain.

I’m curious how long did it take you to reach this salary and how is the work life balance.

Hello! I'm a software engineer with a degree in computer engineering & 3 years of experience. I've been freelancing as a journalist for the past 1.5 years and I recently discovered the world of supply chain through the MITx micromasters, which I'm taking right now. I was wondering how I can leverage my background to get an entry level job in supply chain?

I've been looking at analyst roles and many require some experience directly working with supply chains. I feel that my technical background would fit in well with the skills needed in supply chain such as uncertainty and the math & stats skills needed for it. What other supply chain roles can I look into?

Thank you so much!

Hi! I'm a second year taking up business economics but transferring to operations management soon after going to a seminar about operations and seeing how I like it more specialized if that means anything. My university doesn't offer supply chain management but I was told that I can still get a job in SC with my degree.

I've been reading the past posts about getting into SC and a lot of you guys recommend learning excel and to breathe excel to get into entry level roles. I have some basic skills in excel and by basic I mean just enough to do what I need, but still mess up and not know a lot. We do have excel classes, but not enough if I want to get a job soon. Do you guys recommend me buying a course? I've seen one directly suited for supply chain by Ray Harkins on udemy and it's called: Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics using Microsoft Excel.

I'm not the best at learning on my own since I'd much prefer a path to take than learning on the fly.

I should also include that I'm currently taking the Rutgers: Supply Chain Management Specialization on coursera and have been liking it so far.

If you guys recommend any youtube channels/videos for excel please comment down below. I know this question has already been answered a bunch, but new information comes up almost every day and I just want to make sure I'm doing things right so I'm sorry if I offend anyone by asking.

With my current path and the path I will take, do you think it will be hard for me to get an entry level position in SC?

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