Job Titles

SCM professionals hold a range of job titles and engage in a wide variety of activities, including process improvements, tactical and strategic capacity planning, quality management, vendor selection, price negotiation, forecasting, quality management, strategy development for supply chain integrations following mergers, and developing and using information systems to track and improve performance. These are just a few of the job titles in the field:

• Supply chain manager
• Sourcing leader
• Procurement specialist
• Business analyst
• Commodity manager
• Supply chain consultant
• Logistics consultant
• Category manager
• Materials project manager
• Import/export agent