Where a supply chain manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a supply chain manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Supply chain managers plan, manage and coordinate all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of supplies needed to run manufacturing operations from the acquisition of raw materials to the distribution of finished products. The supplies can be raw materials or finished products, and it can be for internal or external use. Moreover, they plan and commission all the activities needed to be performed in manufacturing plants and adjust operations to changing levels of demand for a company's products.
Also known as global sourcing manager, supply chain specialist, supply chain coordinator, supply chain project manager, supply and distribution manager, supply chain procurement manager.
Managers 99 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: ICT vendor relationship manager, 51%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- ICT buyer 46% covered · difficulty 56.7
- operations manager 40% covered · difficulty 69.6
- purchaser 39% covered · difficulty 63.9
- programme manager 38% covered · difficulty 65.5
- fundraising manager 35% covered · difficulty 67.4
- contract engineer 33% covered · difficulty 63.8
- trade regional manager 32% covered · difficulty 72.4
- commercial director 32% covered · difficulty 65.9
- purchase planner 32% covered · difficulty 71.1
- project manager 31% covered · difficulty 76.2
- budget manager 30% covered · difficulty 73.5
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A supply chain manager needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- identify key processes of traceability systems communication, collaboration and creativity
- implement a management system management skills
- estimate costs of required supplies information skills
- product life-cycle business, administration and law
- analyse logistic changes information skills
- identify software for warehouse management working with computers
- supply chain principles business, administration and law
- supplier management business, administration and law
- product data management business, administration and law
- manage inventory management skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a supply chain manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Supply chain manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a supply chain manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.