Supply Chain Management
What Are Your Plans for the Future?

Working in the Supply Chain:  You Mean a Career?

 

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Background:

The scene is from the movie Say Anything.  The clip is comical as it is a great illustration by the main character, Lloyd Dobler, in a tongue and cheek fashion touching on the entire supply chain when asked what his plans are for the future.

Lloyd comments as follows when asked the question:

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.  I don't want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or process anything sold, bought, or processed or repair anything sold, bought, or processed."


Questions for Thought:

Lloyd does a very good job of speaking to each area of the traditional supply chain.

1. Think about his first statement of not selling, buying or processing anything.  This statment hits three main areas of the supply chain in from customer relationship managment (selling) to procurement (buying) to manufacturing/assembly/service (processing).  Think of what area of the supply chain you have resided in former or current jobs.

2.  Lloyd goes on to flip the statement rephrasing it as not wanting to sell or buy or process or even repair anything previously in any of those areas of the supply chain.  Are there any areas of the supply chain that you would chose NOT to be working in?  I can think of a few that are not my favorites.

3.  Finally, I will ask y'all the question the Father asks in the clip, "What are your plans for the future?".  Maybe it is somewhere within the supply chain.


Say Anything
Gracie Films
©1989