-: I was an economics major ...
Which is kinda like the physics of business.
You get a lot of the core principles
and you understand why and how supply
and demand interact with each other.
But you don't really get the hard business experience
of what it's like to work in a company day to day.
So there was some really great classes I took that were
SAP or ERP oriented,
that really helped me understand like,
oh, this is literally how a business operates
at its core skeleton.
But in terms of getting into the supply chain world overall,
I think ISE and industrial systems is a great path.
I think businesses and Marshall is a great path.
Ultimately, wanting to be a problem solver
and someone that can handle a variety of different problems
but also very much enjoys interacting with people,
I think is where maybe supply chain
differentiates itself from engineering.
Where engineering and engineers would maybe wanna focus on
the mechanics or the robotics or the software
and solve problems within that language and that realm,
but in supply chain it's really people
that you're working with day to day,
and how to use them as what I think
is the most valuable resource of any company.
In a supply chain role,
I think there's a couple skills that really help you.
Being able to multi-task and handle
a lot of different problems in a high complexity system.
Being able to work with people and understand why or ...
What they're saying and why it matters.
You have to be able to address and identify
and maintain risk across any sort of process or product
that your company is trying to create.
If someone could walk me through a complex problem
and tell me the core and simplify it,
that would be a really good indicator to say,
"Hey, you could actually be a great supply chain person."