The
MBA program in Supply Chain Management
at NC State University is unique among business
schools. With the support of the Supply
Chain Resource Consortium, an industry/university
partnership, the program brings the industry
into the classroom, involving students,
faculty and supply chain professionals in
finding solutions to the real industry problems.
This project-based approach to education
reflects the new model for business schools
described by Peter Drucker.
For
more information...
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Peter Drucker...
"Management is a practice, like medicine;
and the model should have been the medical school,
where the bulk of the teaching, especially the
most important teaching of the M.D. in his or
her residency, is performed by practitioners.
Unlike medicine, where you can bring sick patients
into the classroom, business education does not
allow you to bring an organization into the classroom.
You can, however, bring experience in through
your faculty and students. Business educators
should be out as practitioners where the problems
and results are." |
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Journal
of a Summer Intern
Introduction
The Milliken Summer Internship
Challenge
by Scott
Frahm
SCRC staff
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This summer, three students from
N.C. State’s MBA program
and another Operations Research
graduate student have accepted
the Milliken Summer intern challenge.
Each has been assigned to a supply
chain project. One of those students,
Scott Frahm (right), an MBA student
concentrating in supply chain
management, will be writing about
his experiences over the summer
focusing on supply chain themes.
Scott has been teamed with Zach
Breitenbach (center), another
MBA intern, to work on a supply
chain optimization project. An
overview of the project is the
subject of the journal. One of
the purposes of this journal is
to showcase the connection between
classroom learning and how it
is applied to the everyday working
world.
From an intern's perspective,
Milliken has an intern program
that is second to none. With over
150 college interns assigned to
projects over the summer, Milliken
is making a concerted effort to
review potential candidates for
full-time employment in the future.
The summer program lets the interns
learn about Milliken and its culture
and provides a great opportunity
to work on a project.
Throughout the summer Scott will
be writing about the tools and
techniques that he and Zach are
using in their project. Some of
the topics Scott is thinking about
addressing include:
• Inventory Management
• Activity Based Costing
• Forecasting
• Insourcing/Outsourcing
• Relationship Management
• Capacity Management
• Cycle Time Reduction
We are very excited about this
series and hope that in the future
you will take advantage of the
opportunity to bring on MBA students
to work on projects at your company
during the summer.
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