Supply Chain Specialist

“Supply chain management is the civilian world's hottest career field, and you'll learn it the hard way — managing millions of dollars in Marine Corps equipment and parts through a logistics system that requires speed, accuracy, and the organizational discipline that only a Marine can bring. Amazon, Walmart, and every defense contractor have supply chain operations. The Marine Corps teaches you what those jobs actually require.”

You will become deeply familiar with GCSS-MC — the Marine Corps supply system that replaced the systems it replaced — and all of the workarounds that experienced supply Marines have developed to make it do what it should do automatically. Every unit thinks supply is the problem. When equipment is missing, supply did it. When parts are backordered, supply did it. When the count doesn't match at inventory, supply definitely did it. The work is important, detail-intensive, and chronically underappreciated until something goes wrong. The good news: civilian supply chain operations — particularly SAP-based environments — are directly analogous, and the Marine Corps supply experience plus an APICS certification is a combination that operations managers at manufacturing and logistics companies specifically look for.