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Purdue University not only connects people to the world, as epitomized by alumnus Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, but it also connects people in the world. That was the case in May 2023, when students from Purdue participated in a supply chain-themed study abroad in Rotterdam Netherlands, home to the largest port on the European continent. [...]
Universities in the Big Ten conference, the oldest and most influential collegiate athletics league in the world, also comprise the Big Ten Academic Alliance, a collaborative student-centric society and scholastic-focused coalition formed in 1958. Alliance member institutions contribute to the common educational good, such as shared access to a digital library system that constitutes the largest single pool of [...]
Forging a new era of realignment in the college athletics landscape, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) joined the Big Ten athletic conference in 1990, becoming the 11th member institution. The name of the conference was not changed, a wise branding decision that was not understood by many at a time before conference realignment phases began in earnest. In August 2023, [...]
Compared to the national average, an astounding 450%+ of the workforce is employed in the multinational automobile organization (MAO) industry in the state of Indiana, where Toyota, Honda, and Subaru are collaborating with regional tier-one supply chain organizations on R&D and innovations. Indiana’s moniker as the “Crossroads of America” reflects its numerous interstates and proximate [...]
The global supply chain includes the buying and selling disciplines, but the selling aspect has gone through dramatic recent changes, as the failed strategies that led to the pandemic-induced supply chain crisis have been revisited. At their annual sellers conference, Supply Chain by Amazon in September 2023, Amazon announced a broad initiative providing their organizational [...]
2023 Maymester trip!
The pandemic’s effect on supply chain sales has prompted a shift to a more virtual process, which has effectively shut the door on traditional face-to-face fieldwork communications such as back-slapping industry insiders at trade shows and longshoremen conversing on the docks at global ports. To replace the old styles of communications, small manufacturing systems and [...]
Check out the seven global supply-chain themed vlogs created in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Rotterdam is truly the epicenter of the global supply chain. The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and an integral cog in the European supply chain. 1 of 3 consumer products in the EU goes through the Port of Rotterdam at [...]
Major/Minor: Major: Chemical Engineering Minor: Supply Chain Engineering Technology Expected date of graduation: May 2023 Why you pursued supply chain as a minor: I wanted to learn an industry-related topic and explore courses outside the engineering curriculum. This is why I chose supply chain as I saw it was related to industry. I was surprised [...]
"Purdue Polytechnic's Central European Multinational Automobile Organization Supply Chain experience", the annual 3-credit Maymester study abroad, has finally reconvened after a hiatus during the pandemic. Students spent three days exploring four unique Central European cities (Munich, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Hamburg, Germany; Rotterdam, Netherlands) that are historically important as key cogs in World War II [...]
