“I would recommend UT’s supply chain program because of the eye-opening experience it offers. It takes you out of your supply chain comfort zone and broadens your perspectives. Those broadened perspectives change the way you work with customers and suppliers and forces you to define supply chain in a different way.”

—James R. Lee, Supply Chain Integration Manager, Rheem Manufacturing

“Virtually everything Raytheon does in our Mission Support core market centers around PBL.  Our goal is to make PBL the sustainment strategy of choice across the corporation and UT's PBL course provides Raytheon program teams with the in-depth commercial PBL education necessary to achieve that goal.”

—Gil Diaz; Senior Manager, PBL Initiatives; Raytheon Corporate Business Development

“UT’s supply chain program gives you the language to talk supply chain within your company; this enhances implementation success opportunities among the various functional and C-level units with whom you interact.

I recommend UT’s supply chain program for any company that wants to enhance its bottom line and make its company world-class. Sales, marketing, finance, C-level executives –all should take the course to better understand the bottom-line value and significance of implementing productive supply chain programs.”

—Gary Volz; Materials Logistics Manager; Huhtamaki Plastics, Inc.

“The University of Tennessee is the gold standard for supply chain management education. Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics is currently executing a multi-year supply chain initiative, which is challenging current health industry practices and creating an industry paradigm shift. We are challenging our conventional ways of thinking to better manage the balance of rising sales to inventory levels.

Since participating in UT's supply chain program, we have implemented analytical tools and strategic processes that have enhanced the precision of our demand projections, significantly increased our forecasting accuracy, and substantially reduced our inventory levels. Almost a dozen of our associates have participated in the program over the past three years, with many more across several disciplines planning to do so.

The University of Tennessee is our supply chain educational vendor of choice, and I definitely recommend the program. Their instructors are top-notch, their format is innovative, their topics are current, and the philosophy and concepts that are discussed are realistic to implement. Attendees span diverse industries across various supply chains, resulting in invaluable, cross-disciplinary best-of-breed discussions and learning.”

— Dennis Criscuolo; Group Director - eIS Global Applications; Smith & Nephew, Inc.

“We attribute over $30 million in (supply chain) savings to the work we’ve done with UT…and it’s growing!”

“The University of Tennessee's supply chain programs have been invaluable to the paradigm shift occurring at Norfolk Southern. UT is helping us transition from being a rail transportation company to being the best value, solutions provider within our customers' supply chains. We are elevating our employee skill sets as well as our service offerings. The real-time, application value of UT's supply chain program was — and continues to be — relevant and unparalleled.

The University of Tennessee's supply chain program helped us understand the value of supply chain management — offering lowest cost solutions; managing variability; collaborating across the supply chain; and consistently delivering a reliable, cost-efficient transportation product. UT helped us change how we view our customers, elevating our traditional transactional mindset to a more strategic level which helps to lower overall supply chain costs and maximize our customers' profitability.”

— Rob Robinson; Director- Modalgistics; Norfolk Southern Corporation

“I am impressed with the quality of the University of Tennessee's integrated supply chain program. My research and experience indicates that it is one of the country's best. The instructors understand the dynamics inherent with integrated supply chain issues. My expectation is that the application of my learning will strengthen our competitive position. Our new CEO has challenged us to double our working capital turns; my UT training should have a significant influence in our ability to achieve this goal.

I can recommend UT's supply chain program because of the quality of the instruction, and the ability to network and brainstorm with companies in other industries.”

— John C. Hill; Master Black Belt; 3M Industrial Business

“The logistics graduates we hire from the University of Tennessee greatly impact our ability to successfully execute our supply chain strategy here at Lowe's.”

— John McMahan; VP of Product Flow and Replenishment; Lowe's Companies, Inc.

“University of Tennessee logistics graduates are so well trained that I can immediately turn them loose anywhere in the world to address our supply chain challenges.”

— Jay Fortenberry, Vice President of Logistics and Trade; Honeywell

“UT's logistics and supply chain programming is impressive! Its curriculum is cutting-edge — one of the best I've seen — and its graduates hit the ground running.  For ten years, UT has been a recruiting college of choice for Dell.”

— Greg Kelly; Director, Americas Fulfillment; Dell, Inc.