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WANTED: Educated Supply Chain Professionals

With supply chain management becoming a globalized, interdisciplinary profession, new approaches to training and education are needed.

Demand for supply chain professionals exceeds supply by a ratio of six to one, according to the Center for Supply Chain Research at Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. With demand projected to increase 20 percent during the next decade, the retirement of skilled Baby Boomers looming, and required skill sets changing dramatically, it’s a situation

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