Photo: Courtesy of Clemson University

Supply-chain management in industrial settings and in construction “are quite similar,” says William Ferrell, Clemson’s industrial engineering department head.

Photo: Courtesy of Fluor

更好地管理材料和设备可以节省资金。

“It’s a breakthrough that this industry needs,” says James A. Scotti, senior vice president and chief procurement officer at Irving, Texas-based Fluor. To launch the program, the constructor in 2007 provided $2 million, matched by another $2 million in state funds. The infusion created the Fluor Endowed Chair of Supply Chain and Logistics within Clemson’s industrial engineering department.

Fluor帮助建立了该课程，其中包括10次在线课程，每年在40个月内每年参加3次课程。学费的费用约为每新利18备用官网登录门课程2,300美元。学生可以通过在线视频访问按需访问课程，并通过电子邮件或聊天技术与教师进行交流，并下载用于在笔记本电脑或iPod上查看的模块。新利18备用计划手册说，入学人不必是学历的工程师，而必须是具有相关行业经验和数学能力的工作专业人员，该专业人员与工程，商业或管理学位一致。校园里克莱姆森的学生不符合资格。

Brad Barton, a supply-chain practice leader at CSC, an IT services consulting firm in Falls Church, Va., says the downturn has forced all companies to review supply-chain management costs. In a survey of 160 clients last year, CSC found 80% deemed that necessary to reduce cost structures and inventory levels while adding revenue to the top line.

部门总监William G. Ferrell Jr.说，教会了参与者的供应链管理的基本技术和概念，该技术起源于生产环境，并已进行了建设。他说，建造核电站并解决沃尔玛如何通过中国通过商店分发产品的方式可能在地面上可能完全不同。“但是说实话，它们非常相似。”

课程的重点是使用工业工程技术来简化任务的工业工程技术所需的流程顺序，并安排运输和安装。“Whether we are getting customers on rides at Disney World or trying to get construction sites the right materials at the right time, we are improving processes,” says Scott J. Mason, the program’s first chairman and a former industrial engineering professor at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

克莱姆森说，现在有100多名来自全球的学生已招募。新利18备用它们包括Fluor的员工和其他行业公司，例如Jacobs Engineering Group，Kiewit，Ch2M Hill和Worleyparsons，以及波音公司，埃克森美孚公司和BMW Group。完成课程的学生获得工业工程工程硕士学位。第一堂课定于2011年12月毕业。“他们将从该计划中获得的知识对行业和雇主来说是很大的时刻，” Scotti说。