Major/Minor Major: Electrical Engineering Technology Minors: Supply Chain Technology, AI/Machine Learning Why you pursued Supply Chain & Sales Engineering Technology as a minor? I pursued this minor because I wanted to understand the engineering models and practices that are necessary when running a business. In addition, I wanted to combine my Electrical Engineering Technology major [...]
Category: Supply Chain as a Discipline
Finance Major Arihant Talera on Why He Chose to Minor in Supply Chain Engineering Technology
Major: Finance Minors: Supply Chain Engineering Technology & Real Estate Finance Expected Date of Graduation: May 2024 Why did you pursue supply chain as a minor? There were multiple reasons that prompted me to enroll in this minor. The first one was my background, because my family in India has had active business interests in [...]
Purdue University Connects the World
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. [...]
Sustainability in the Multinational Automobile Industry: OUR Scholars project at Purdue University
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 [...]
Selling in the Post-Pandemic Global Supply Chain
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 [...]
Post-COVID Strategies for International Supply Chain Sales: Curriculum development for global industrial distribution at Purdue University
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 [...]
Future Chemical Engineer Meghan Thai on why she chose to minor in Supply Chain Engineering Technology
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 [...]