What are the career avenues for an Operations management student?

Question

I also would like to know, what work actually does a logistics manager do? How it is like working in a Logistics department of either a 3PL company or any other company? Please help.

Answer 1

Firstly, talking about Operations Management(OM), as an OM u need to understand the flow of work, you would analyse(or) breakdown the process into each unit of work, where you would be in a better position to understand the purpose of each unit and control in much better way by optimally utilising your resources. As an OM your role doesn't end over there you again gotta work out to cut down the cost and believe me once you understand the whole process you would automatically know where to cut down the cost..


Logistic manager(LM) is one who needs to understand what materials he wants and where it would be required. A good LM would try to learn where is the best source he could find and the alternatives which would substitute his primary source when there is short fall of Raw-Materials.
Here LM will setup something called HUBS(Central place for redistribution of raw-materials) here he'll try to pool the resources from else where and distributes to the required place.


3PL (Third party logistics) here the role of 3PL is same as LM, but then they are not the part of the company, they just work on behalf of the company.

Both run their own risk


Good luck
Sunil

Answer 2

Operation management does not necessarily end up working for logistic company. Operation management also involve in the suppy chain operations, althought you will need to understand a little of manufacturing, which is easy, as the hard task lies in the operation itself.

High tech company requires operation management, specially in the gloablization, you will need to manage your supplier, which can be in Asia, manage the delivery and schedule of delivery, which can be from China, India, somewhere in Easter Europe or subcontract facility in US, you will also need to manage the just in time delivery to save cost, reduce iventories and make the mmonthly revenues.

This is more fun than just being a logistic operation.

Answer 3

Basically, you would manage supervisors and ensure they are doing their job. A 3PL basically receives, warehouses, ships, and packs other companies' product so you would ensure customer needs are met above satisfaction. Employees productivity and revenue costs are up while expenses are down. Also, look for new ways to grow the business, such as gain more sections of the other companies' business.