A presentation introducing supply chain career for students and fresh graduates presented online for Egypt Career summit online version

1. Supply Chain
Career
Egypt Career Summit –
Online Edition
By
Abdelrahman Aly
Supply Chain Professional

2. Agenda
• Booking Questions / Session Expectations
• What is Supply chain ?
• Historical brief
• Supply Chain Areas
• Skills and Competencies
• How to develop a Supply Chain career

3. Booking
Questions
• What is the supply chain?
• How to start a career in supply chain
• What will benefit me if I learned supply chain?
• Needed skills and trainings
• How hard is supply chain career?
• How can I improve myself in supply chain?
• How to get a supply chain job?
• Tips

4. What to
Expect.
• Understand the Idea of supply chain.
• Understand the main Areas of supply chain
business and their impact.
• Supply chain diverse operations overview
• How to start/develop a supply chain career
• Supporting materials/Links.

5. What is
Supply Chain?
Supply chain is the system/function/art that
regulate and control activities, info and resources
within organization to develop a product/ service
and the connection with other organizations
(vendors/clients) through two ways transportation
at any point.
Characteristics:
• Dynamic.
• Demand/Market related.
• Evolutionary.

6. Historical
brief
• Old Practice (basic needs related), Trade
caravans.
• Logistics word appear for the first time 1898.
• 1920s started to be considered as science.
• 1940s Supply chain importance in WW II
• 1960s development of scientific logistics and
inventory modeling (warehousing).
• 1980s council of Logistics management ,MRP &
appearance of supply chain management term .
• 1990s ERP introduction.
• Since 2000s development is unstoppable.

7. Supply Chain
elements
(Supplier to
Customer)
End to End
Supply chain
concept
ERP
Cost
Personnel

8. Element #1
DEMAND
• The main driver for any business.
• The key for supply chain cycle.
• FWD & BWD impact.
• Affecting the whole organization departments.
• Long & short term.
• Affected dramatically by the supply status.

9. Element #2
OPERATIONS
• Assets management/Procurement.
• R&PM planning.
• Production Planning.
• Capacity Planning.
• Warehouse management.

10. Element #3
LOGISTICS
• Mode of transportation.
• Routes.
• Cost.
• Warehouse.

11. Skills &
Competencies
• Team Work.
• Reasoning.
• Result oriented.
• Eager to learn.
• Analytical mindset.
• Tech. passionate.
• Stress management.
• Open minded.

12. How to
develop a
supply chain
career?
Under-Grad/Students
• Student activities.
• Internships.
• Events.
• English.
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT..).
• Courses (online/attendance).

13. How to
develop a
supply chain
career?
Fresh-Grad/Juniors employees
• English.
• MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT..).
• Courses (online/attendance).
• Seek a new entry job in supply
chain (ex. P&G, Unilever,
Ecolab,…).
• APICS Certifications (CPIM, CSCP).

14. How to
develop a
supply chain
career?
Middle management/senior (non
managers) employees
• Courses (online/attendance).
• Seek a higher level job in supply
chain (ex. P&G, Unilever,
Ecolab,…). –Different industry-
• APICS Certifications (CSCM).

15. Facebook
Links
Egyptian Supply Chain Community
Association of Supply Chain
Professionals - ASCP
Hesham Al Araky ‫اللوجستاوي‬

16. LinkedIn Links
LinkedIn groups
Egypt supply chain and logistics group
Africa supply chain, logistics & transport
LinkedIn pages
Gartner
CSCMP
APICS
Supply Chain Revolution
LinkedIn Profiles
Micheal Youssef
Dr. Muddassir Ahmed
Mohamed El-Erian

17. Courses Links
Online Courses Websites
UDEMY
COURSERA
MITx
Attendance courses websites
American Chamber of Commerce
AMIDEAST
AUC Egypt
HPA

18. THANK
YOU
Abdelrahman Aly
Abdelrahman.ia@gmail.com
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