SCM Careers     Supply Chain Management (SCM) deals with a broad spectrum of fields including procurement, inventory, and logistics. It is a part of Management, Scientific and Technical (MST) consulting industry that has been ranked among the fastest growing industries by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics through 2012. The "Management Analyst" category is wider than MST consultants and it includes SCM jobs. The bureau forecasts the need for management analysts to grow about 21-35% from 2002 to 2012. In 2002, there were 577,000 management analysts specializing in management, scientific and consulting services. earning an average salary of $71,790. Moreover, it expects about 400,000 new jobs in the field of "General and Operations Managers" until 2012 and this is the 8th largest numerical increase among all the employment categories.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is the home of the world-leading SC solutions company i2 Technologies and one of the most successful SC consulting companies Sabre. The area also houses many fortune 500 companies: 2. Exxon Mobil; 10. AT&T; 105. AMR Corporation; 108. Electronic Data Systems; 118. JC Penney; 140. Kimberly-Clark; 162. D.R. Horton; 167. Texas Instruments; 169. Fluor Corp.; 171. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation; 175. Centex; 216. Dean Foods; 228. TXU; 236. Tenet Healthcare; 300. Southwest Airlines; 329. Commercial Metals; 347. Energy Transfer Partners; 356. Celanese; 366. Blockbuster Inc.; 423. Radio Shack; 430. Atmos Energy; 432. Triad Hospitals; 471. Affiliated Computer Services; 487. Comerica; 499. Brinker International. Some of the other notable companies headquartered in Dallas-Forth Worth area are 7-Eleven, AmeriCredit, Bombay Company, Cinemark Theatres, ClubCorp, Dr.Pepper, Fossil, Flowserve, GameStop, Greyhound Busses, Haggar Clothing, FedEx Office, Lennox, Perot Systems, Pier 1 Imports, Rent-A-Center, The Container Store, Vought Aircraft, Zale Corporation. Also Ericsson, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent, Lockheed and Raytheon, to name a few, are all in the greater Dallas area and they run complex Supply Chains, and are constantly looking for well qualified professionals. In fact, for each of the last five years, well over 30 multi-national companies have come to the UT-Dallas campus to recruit for SCM related positions.

Graduates of the SCM-MS program can work in various positions, including as consultants, operations / logistics / supply chain analysts, project managers, procurement managers, material planners. To help the graduates to identify and choose careers, the SOM career center provides the following services: career counseling, resume assistance, interview assistance, job search assistance, career resource library, web resume database, on-campus recruiting, active internship programs. Another way to learn and search for SCM careers is visiting web pages such as cscmp.org, supplychaintoday.com, supplyjobs.com, jobsinlogistics.com, supplychainrecruit.com, supply-chain.org.