Supply Chain Managers

You definitely don’t need manufacturing experience to get this internship but knowing a little about the industry and what GE does is important. Be able to answer “why are you interested in manufacturing?” Be prepared to talk about any leadership positions you’ve held or extracurricular activiti...

One of my favorite parts of this job was that it was very hands on - about 40% of my time was spent working on the manufacturing floor. I worked at the Charlottesville plant and I was able to do projects for the Environmental, Health and Safety, Manufacturing and Engineering departments. I comple...

- Review Intel's safety features & employee training - Work under a manager, who assigns you 2-3 projects and mentors for each project to work with in your team. Meet with this manager a minimum of once a week. - You are assigned a mentor within Intel on a different team within Supply Chain, who ...

Compensation is formulaic and based on your education level, year in school, and major. Industrial engineering bachelors will make ~$80k, chemical engineering ~$95k. Internships pay $33-45/hour.

ExxonMobil emphasizes work-life balance to its employees. They encourage flexible work hours, so many employees have the opportunity to work from home or work during non-normal hours. Even when considering transitioning employees to a new role, they will honor any preferences based on location, j...

ExxonMobil really works with each intern on a case-by-case basis to give them projects to use their strong skills as well as develop those that may be lacking. From my experience, interning for this company for two summers really opened my eyes to how they have been working to develop me professi...

Again this depends on you position. The average intern is going to have a good amount of work life balance. You work 8-5 with an hour for lunch, and live with a bunch of other interns. A lot of interns would work out together everyday after work. We'd go to baseball games together, or trivia nigh...

Your average day really depends on the depart you get placed with. I knew some people who got placed in operations and spent all day moving up and down the line, running time studies, looking for process improvement, helping keeps the line moving, I knew other people in Continuous improvement who...

This position required the ability to distill vast amounts of information down into key takeaways in order to come up with KPIs for the Nielsen Sustainability program. Qualitative Analysis skills are needed in order to code information for reporting.

My internship was specifically supply chain based at Lockheed Martin. I dealt with the production of product in their manufacturing facility. My big project I worked on dealt with the organizing and optimizing of vendor-managed inventory in a specific part of the manufacturing floor. It was looki...

Expect full ownership. It will likely take a little while to get any deliverables client-ready, but that's how it is for everyone. It's an iterative process and you are not expected to be grade A from the start. Full ownership is yours, though.

More than anything, success in consulting is based on being able to work with the lifestyle. Constant travel, the odds and the clock against you, often not having all team members in one place and constant change and challenge. It is not a normal job and you have to fit that. I did not and that i...

One of the things I liked most about being a Supply Chain Intern is that I learned more than I initially expected about the company. The Supply Chain team not only manages the movement of Schreiber’s products, but also communicates with suppliers, integrates new products and suppliers, and ensure...

The training program for a Supply Chain Intern at Schreiber Foods really depends on what the position specifically entails, since there are many subgroups within the Supply Chain group. While I was at Schreiber, I worked on updating Schreiber’s databases and information to comply with Food Safety...

Really varies quite a bit - most days I'm in a lot of meetings or talking with different Global Supply Managers, who are managing relationships with suppliers, as well as Engineering Program Managers, to understand how we're doing in terms of material readiness for upcoming builds and production ...

Do some research about the company and about their culture. Chevron puts a huge emphasis on safety so be sure to loop that in. Also, the reliability engineering position is a combination of probability and statistics and thermodynamics. Express your interest in those subjects.

As a reliability engineering intern at Chevron, I was given a plant and was required to find and optimize the overall availability and reduce costs. This included learning a specialized reliability software and doing research on the availability, up-time, and down-time of all included components.

Prepared me well having a broad business background and enough experience in SC in my short career history. This enabled me to fully grasp concepts in meetings and to essentially fully immerse into the role without a lot of onboarding. I was able to understand/interact with other departments and ...

Conducting several root cause analysis, generating/creating several reports and updating slide decks (ppt.) using Oracle and some manual reports from the various manufacturing sites across Teva’s footprint. Reports/analyses surrounded everything concerning inventory: shortages by molecules/family...

Leadership experiences, creative solutions, experiences that fit into the "company credo" that can be found online (service to community, business decisions that take into account the well being of the customer, etc). Always highlight the result of any story told to answer a behavioral question....

- Review Intel's safety features & employee training - Work under a manager, who assigns you 2-3 projects and mentors for each project to work with in your team. Meet with this manager a minimum of once a week. - You are assigned a mentor within Intel on a different team within Supply Chain, who ...

As a Supply Chain Management Analyst intern, your career progression can branch into a variety of different “paths,” as a SCMA internship role is very production oriented. With production experience, SCMA interns generally return to Boeing as a full-time SCMA, which focuses on ensuring parts and ...

My time as a Supply Chain Management Analyst (SCMA) Intern was spent doing several projects related to inventory reduction and material tracking via automated identification (RFID & barcode). Boeing’s strategy focuses on various elements - of which, inventory reduction through lean manufacturing ...

Prepare success stories that demonstrate your skills and experience relating to the requirements in the job description. Part of working for both Partners In Health and as a Global Health Corps fellow involve demonstrating your passion and commitment to healthcare as a human right. Be sure to sho...

My experience was based in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda. Work involved daily tasks revolving around all aspects of the supply chain cycle. Regular quantification and ordering of more supplies, receiving shipments, storing products safely, and distribution to affiliated sites. Tracking all inventory ordered,...

Global health provided me with many skills I was able to use in my role at Partners In Health. Quality Improvement skills allowed me to use techniques I learned at BUSPH to streamline processes to make the more efficient. Courses on implementing projects in developing countries helped me understa...

A Planning Advisor at ExxonMobil in the Upstream Production Company (The title means something different in the refining and chemicals downstream organization) sits between the technical engineering organizations for a particular area of the world and the controllers/financial accounting organiza...

Supply Planning is an operations role that includes order scheduling / fulfillment, factory interface / manufacturing support, new product introduction, forecasting, and compilation / presenting metrics...in a nutshell. Planning works with almost all functional groups but reports in to finance at...

Leadership experiences, creative solutions, experiences that fit into the "company credo" that can be found online (service to community, business decisions that take into account the well being of the customer, etc). Always highlight the result of any story told to answer a behavioral question....

The compensation will vary based my your location and experience. Government Property has different tiers that are not easy to obtain. If you are willing to relocate for your career then this would be a good path. I'm not for sure how much information I can share about this subject, but it provid...

More than anything, success in consulting is based on being able to work with the lifestyle. Constant travel, the odds and the clock against you, often not having all team members in one place and constant change and challenge. It is not a normal job and you have to fit that. I did not and that i...

Leadership experiences, creative solutions, experiences that fit into the "company credo" that can be found online (service to community, business decisions that take into account the well being of the customer, etc). Always highlight the result of any story told to answer a behavioral question....