SiM Takes on Pennsylvania
Ethan Frank '01
Issue date: 4/6/00 Section: Johnson News
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So you’re coming to The Johnson School…. Are you interested in Consulting, Technology, General Management, Strategy, Supply Chain, Operations or don’t know? If so, consider SiM (Semester in Manufacturing) as your immersion. Imagine after one semester you have visited 20+ plant facilities and questioned the management teams as well as the line workers. You can’t learn this from a book, only by experiencing it.
No matter how much business revolves around information and e-commerce, one thing will always hold true. Products have to be made, transported and delivered. To support an e-world, operations and manufacturing have to be part of the ongoing solutions. It’s great if I can order a car over the Internet, but if it still takes 30 days to produce and deliver it, what good is it for me, the consumer, to order on-line. Now, if it can be delivered in 5 days, that would be something. That something is what SiM is about. Learn how to match Corporate, Business and Functional Strategies together to produce what the consumer wants, when they want it, and where they want it.
The Trip:
After 2 morning class sessions, we rushed to get on the Swarthout Bus for our “Northeast Trip” with our driver, Gary. I was a little confused since we headed South to Pennsylvania (I don’t get to name the trips). We left on Tuesday and returned Friday evening. The following chart tells you where we went, what the company makes and an interesting tidbit about the company or our visit.
I can’t specifically discuss all the fun we had, but you can guess. Also, if you are interested, the MBA’s and Engineers have each come up with an interesting way to determine who gets the cot or floor when sharing a room with more than 2 people.
No matter how much business revolves around information and e-commerce, one thing will always hold true. Products have to be made, transported and delivered. To support an e-world, operations and manufacturing have to be part of the ongoing solutions. It’s great if I can order a car over the Internet, but if it still takes 30 days to produce and deliver it, what good is it for me, the consumer, to order on-line. Now, if it can be delivered in 5 days, that would be something. That something is what SiM is about. Learn how to match Corporate, Business and Functional Strategies together to produce what the consumer wants, when they want it, and where they want it.
The Trip:
After 2 morning class sessions, we rushed to get on the Swarthout Bus for our “Northeast Trip” with our driver, Gary. I was a little confused since we headed South to Pennsylvania (I don’t get to name the trips). We left on Tuesday and returned Friday evening. The following chart tells you where we went, what the company makes and an interesting tidbit about the company or our visit.
I can’t specifically discuss all the fun we had, but you can guess. Also, if you are interested, the MBA’s and Engineers have each come up with an interesting way to determine who gets the cot or floor when sharing a room with more than 2 people.