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The Grainger Center's unique administrative structure provides students with direct access to faculty and staff for academic and career counseling throughout their MBA experience.” Learn More VERDA BLYTHE Director, Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management

Industry Partnerships

The Grainger Center has deep ties to industry. The Executive Advisory Board is comprised of senior executives at leading firms renowned for supply chain management excellence, whose involvement enhances the curriculum and applied learning program, providing invaluable career guidance and growth. Learn More

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“The most compelling elements of the Grainger Center are the concept of one integrated package of the end-to-end curriculum, the deeply personalized academic and career advice, and an Executive Advisory Board of outside industry leaders commissioned to make the school and the students successful.” Learn more

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MBA students form close ties to each other and to the dedicated faculty and alumni. They benefit from the resources of a large, world-class university and the hands-on, personalized attention offered by the Grainger Center staff and Executive Advisory Board.

Average starting salaries ranging from $85,000 to $125,000

Extensive network of corporate parters provides real-world perspective

Curriculum is cross-functional, applied, and collaborative

Personalized guidance from industry executives, alumni, and faculty

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The Grainger Center Difference

When the mission is impossible, they'll call on you

The Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management is one of the only endowed, university-based centers specializing in supply chain management in the United States. Its unique curriculum is cross-functional and takes an integrated business process view of supply chains, including marketing, sourcing, logistics, operations, and customer service. It is a personalized, industry-focused program supported by companies known for supply chain excellence. Students connect with and learn from real-world supply chain leaders and are part of a strong, close-knit community.

We provide students with an experiential interdisciplinary education in supply chain management that builds upon fundamental knowledge and incorporates the latest advances in supply chain thinking. Staff at the Grainger Center will not only help connect students with the Grainger Center community, including alumni, faculty, staff, and members of the Executive Advisory Board, but also assist you in developing recruiting relationships and individualized career development.

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Kerri YarbroughClass of 2007Assistant Supply Officer-USS Dwight D. Eisenhower US Navy

Integrated Learning Environment

Several times throughout the year, students meet with and learn from executives in various settings – visiting executives lecture in the Supply Chain Management Seminar class and in the executive speaker series.

Students, faculty, and staff travel each semester to distribution centers and manufacturing facilities to get a firsthand view of a supply chain operation in action. MBA students participate in the prestigious Sam M. Walton College of Business International Graduate Logistics Case Competition.

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What is Supply Chain Management?

Cisco

Find out how Cisco is shaping the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity through its supply chain.

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Your Career

Supply chain management talent is in high demand, as the Grainger Center’s remarkable placement record for summer internships and full-time employment reflects. Our graduates achieve quickly and notably. Average starting salaries are consistently the highest among peer schools, ranging from $85,000 to $125,000.

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Student Profiles

Justin OwenMBA 2012

Justin joined the Grainger Center with eight years of experience in industrial distribution. The majority of his career has been with S&S Industrial Supply, an industrial distributor of metalworking products located in Portage, Michigan. As a...Read More