Video Transcript

Jacob, Host at Logistics Degree:
Question: What was your favorite class or maybe overall just best part about your supply chain management degree program?

Nathan, Logistician:
Answer: The first was a business strategy course, and I think for me, I went into procurement, and so understanding strategy was a big portion of my professional experience, and the second was the SRP certification. It was really fun, it was very challenging and both classes were challenging but were very rewarding.

William, Director of Operations:
Answer: I might be biased, but I think procurement. You can make that course really fun and you learn stuff that, you know, like negotiation tactics that I personally don’t use at work, but I can use them in my personal life, right? I can use it against my wife or I could use it in a store or, you know, with the cable company. So I think there’s a lot of far reaching things that you learn in that class that you can apply to everything. And I think that’s what it’s fun.

Alexander, Supply Chain & Logistics:
Answer: I think my best overall part would have been my professors and how motivated they were to learn. But I think for the most part, all of my professors work outside of the university, so they typically have a side gig working in supply chain as a consultant for a big company, and they would use their experience and they would teach us based on that experience. I think that was my favorite part about my bachelor’s degree was actually being able to incorporate real world scenarios, inferiors that we’re learning about because many other subjects, you can’t necessarily do that.

Haley, Logistics Project Manager:
Answer: My favorite part of the educational journey was really my classmates and my professors. Very cliche, but they were all very knowledgeable, taught me a lot and I’m still friends with a lot of them. So that was my favorite part. But one the academic. I really loved all of the classes that I got to take, but one that stood out in particular and why went into what I wanted was project management. So I got into this degree knowing that it was pretty tech heavy and that there was going to be like a lot of coding and a lot of more technical skills to learn. But I also knew I didn’t want to code for my degree. I kind of wanted to do something more business or operations. And then when I saw that project management was a facet of that, I was very intrigued and very interested and became very passionate about that area.

Corben, Supply Chain Manager:
Yeah so I loved how the professors made the narrative or the textbook information really come to life. So I had some professors that did a great job of showing use case studies, and we’d work through them together or showing us real news articles out of business journals or just everyday news too. So I had an old professor that would tell stories of how he would get the blue collar workers to go along with what the White collar workers or really his bosses needed him to do. So that management of both different diverse groups of people, getting them to all coordinate together towards a common goal was really helpful. One final thing we did in class, we did a spanning tree diagram, which is basically like a big kid connect the dots. And so you would have a bunch of dots on a piece of paper and there were destinations for your trucking company. And so you had to measure them and see where it would tell you the lengths of them maybe. But you would have to do the math and say, well, if we go in this order, that will actually be total x number of miles. But if we actually go this way, that’s only 100 miles. Well, we’ll save the gas and save time. That’s great. We should do it that way. And then we take it even further and say, what if we cut out this one? What if we just decide not to cancel our contract with that client? How much would be safe? And then you could do the math and say, oh, wow, that’s really good for us. We should do that. And it was I thought that really brought the information in the textbook to life. We needed case studies like that and.