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The Boeing Center was pleased to host Marcia Howes, Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Executive at BJC HealthCare, for the final BCTIM Operational Excellence seminar of the semester.  Her presentation, titled “Navigating the Healthcare Supply Chain,” focused on the challenges of inventory management in the healthcare industry.

As evidence of their supply chain innovation initiatives, BJC was recently named the 2015 national healthcare provider Supply Chainnovator award winner by Gartner, Inc., a leading global research and advisory company. For more information on this impressive achievement, click here.

More about Marcia

Marcia has been with BJC since January 2015 and has been a Supply Chain professional for over 25 years.  She has broad-based experience in Supply Chain Operations, including past assignments as Executive Director, Supply Chain & Operations Improvement for Amgen, Inc., and Director, Supply Chain and Quality Processes for Honeywell’s Specialty Mate­rials.  She has developed and implemented Sales, Operations and Inventory Planning processes; led on-going service, inventory and cost optimization programs; and led multiple acquisition due diligence activities and integration planning.

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Marcia Howes on Inventory Mangement

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Supply chain students at SCOPA Symposium.

On February 25, the Olin Supply Chain and Operations Association (SCOPA) held its second annual symposium at Knight Center. Seven Olin alumni and industry experts from Deloitte, Accenture, Equifax, Express Scripts, and BJC Healthcare joined a mixed group of 33 students in the MBA and Master of Supply Chain and Customer Analytics programs to discuss the topic of ‘Big Data Analytics in Supply Chain & Operations.’

The topics that we discussed included the definition of big data in various industries, types of big data, the IT implementation and human resources support, the use of big data in real-world business and lastly, the soft and technical skills students need to learn before going into the advanced data analytics field. The discussion was very inspiring. We were not only able to gain industry insights first hand, but some of us also discovered career opportunities and even potential business opportunities among participating companies and students’ employers.

Panelists speak at the 2016 SCOPA symposium.

Panelists speak at the 2016 SCOPA Symposium.

The symposium was very successful. Both the students and the panelists believed that it was a great learning opportunity. After the event, the panelists from Deloitte explicitly expressed that they would love to come back next year to meet more students and provide more learning and networking opportunities. Events like these makes them even more interested in our talent here at Olin.

Last but not least, I want to express my special thanks to Mark Schlafly, Karen Heise and Lisa Hebert from the Weston Career Center and Sally Michael from the Management Communication Center. The event would not have been this successful without their huge support. At the beginning of the preparation stage, we experienced some difficulty inviting the right industry experts. Karen and Sally even generously shared their personal contacts to help SCOPA with the event. This is a great example of the collaboration among WCC, MCC, and student organizations. Olin is really a place where everyone truly cares about your success. You know you could always get genuine support from this close-knit community.

Moving forward, SCOPA plans to maintain and expand its network with companies. We hope to host another symposium in the Fall semester when most students are looking for internship/full-time opportunities, and organize more Lunch & Learn opportunities.

Guest blogger: Joyce Song, MBA ’17