Supply Chains and Operations Management Club

 

University at Buffalo: School of Management

Connecting Students to the Future

About Us

Phone: none

e-mail: scom.ub@gmail.com

Mission:  The mission of the SCOM Club is to fulfill a gap in the School of Management SCOM Concentration by facilitating the synergy generated when many students work together toward a common goal.  By creating a venue for numerous students interested in SCOM to come together, the SCOM Club creates more opportunities for UB SOM students to attract speakers to campus from related professional organizations, carpool, receive invitations to plant tours, network, earn scholarship monies, etc.

 

Description:  The SCOM Club is very different from other clubs on campus and other SCOM clubs from other universities:

 

This club is specific to the Supply Chains & Operations Management Concentration, as SHRM and FMA are specific to human resources and finance respectively.  Records show that UB once had an APICS affiliation (National association focused on Supply Chains and Operations) but that club has since become dormant.  Students concentrating in SCOM currently have no club representation.

 

The SCOM Club at UB will be unique from any other club of its kind at other universities because the UB SCOM Club aims to correspond with multiple professional organizations from greater Buffalo as an unofficial affiliate of the Buffalo Niagara Professional Alliance (BNPA).  Members of the BNPA that the UB SCOM Club will work with include:

 

APICS:  The Association for Operations Management

ASQ:  American Society for Quality

NAPM:  National Association for Purchasing Management

 

Each of these organizations have unique qualities as each of our SCOM students at UB have unique interests.  The SCOM Club facilitates an interested student’s ability to meet professionals, network, possibly join the professional organization, and possibly meet a future employer.

 

Activities:

 

- Plant tours

- Guest speakers

- Networking events

- Professional development seminars offered by local chapters of national professional associations

- Group professional organization membership applications

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Funds:  Activities within the SCOM Club will be individually self-funded.  Students who are interested in gaining membership to a professional organization or who would like to attend a networking dinner must pay their own fee.  The SCOM Club hopes to have no affiliation with SA.