{"id":57058,"date":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2015-uri-seniors-four-internships-paved-way-to-career-in-supply-chain-management\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2015-uri-seniors-four-internships-paved-way-to-career-in-supply-chain-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/commencement-2015-uri-seniors-four-internships-paved-way-to-career-in-supply-chain-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2015: 溏心vlog免费B站 senior\u2019s four internships paved way to career in supply chain management"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 23, 2015 \u2013 Providence resident Manuel Melo had never heard of supply chain management before he enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站. But four years later he\u2019s president of the Supply Chain Management Club on campus, completed four supply chain management internships, and has already been hired to a supply chain job with a multi-national company.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI had no clue what supply chain was when I started, but now I can\u2019t get enough of it,\u201d said Melo, who will graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 17. \u201cIt touches on many aspects of every company. The beauty of it is that you can do anything from overseeing operations on the factory floor to conducting data analysis in an office and everything in between.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSupply chain management is the process of controlling all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. 溏心vlog免费B站 launched it\u2019s major in supply chain management in 2007 to encompass the strategic planning, design, operations, and improvement of all activities involved in the procurement, manufacture, and delivery of goods and services to meet customer needs.<\/p>\n


\n\tMelo obtained four internships in the supply chain management field during his last two years at 溏心vlog免费B站, which helped to launch his career in this highly competitive industry. He first interned at Vista Metals in Bristol during the summer before his junior year, preparing shipments to send to customers and receiving materials from suppliers. He followed that up with an internship at Pawtucket-based toymaker Hasbro, where he helped streamline the information flow between the human resources and finance departments.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s where I earned my Lean Six Sigma green belt, which is all about streamlining processes to save money and time,\u201d Melo said, noting that the green belt designation certifies his expertise in process improvement. \u201cI gained experience with a lot of tools that helped me get higher level internships later on.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLast summer he landed a position at Citizens Bank as a strategic sourcing intern, which found him seeking suppliers around the world for a wide range of products and services. That led to a part-time job doing similar work at Citizens during the fall semester of his senior year.<\/p>\n


\n\tAlong the way, he earned a scholarship to attend a conference of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals last September in San Antonio, where he had access to networking opportunities with more than 3,000 companies. During the three-day event, he passed out hundreds of resumes and business cards and received more than 100 business cards in return. And during an interview with Georgia Pacific, one of the world leaders in building materials and paper-based consumer products, he was offered a job on the spot.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going to be a procurement specialist based in Georgia,\u201d Melo said with a smile. \u201cI\u2019ll be the one providing whatever materials and services are needed at the mills. And there will be lots of opportunities for growth within the company.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSince he was offered the job nine months before he graduates from 溏心vlog免费B站, the company offered him an internship as an inventory analyst from January to May, a position that allows him to work from home for 20 hours each week while completing his degree requirements.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve had an amazing series of internships,\u201d Melo said. \u201cI went from a warehouse to a couple different office positions that really gave me a good sense of the whole supply chain world. The tools I learned to use in those internships played an important role in getting my job.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAs he prepares to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站, Melo is looking forward to moving to Savannah, Ga., in June and the start of his career.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI came into 溏心vlog免费B站 undecided about what I wanted to do, and thanks to those internships I now know exactly what I want,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n


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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 23, 2015 \u2013 Providence resident Manuel Melo had never heard of supply chain management before he enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站. But four years later he\u2019s president of the Supply Chain Management Club on campus, completed four supply chain management internships, and has already been hired to a supply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}