Program Director

 

Tan Miller Executive-in-Residence, The Harper Professor of Global Supply Chain Management Rider University, College of Business Administration

January 2009

In the fall of 2008, I was honored to become a member of the Rider community in the capacity of Executive-in-Residence, the Harper Professor of Global Supply Chain Management.  I am new to the Rider community, having joined the university after working approximately 20 years in numerous supply chain and logistics positions in private industry and consulting.  Most recently I was the head of Johnson and Johnson’s US consumer distribution organization, and previously had led the US Consumer Healthcare Logistics organization of Pfizer Inc.

As many of you know, Rider will offer an undergraduate degree in Global Supply Chain Management beginning in the fall 2009 semester, and I will help support this effort as the Director of the Global Supply Chain Management program.  The launching of the Global Supply Chain major culminates several years of very strong efforts by a number of Rider administrators and faculty.  I have had the privilege of working with these colleagues since September of 2008, and in this short time have been extraordinarily impressed with both the thoroughness and the understanding that the Rider community has demonstrated in developing this major over the last two years.

The supply chain program represents an inter-disciplinary effort that will jointly be offered by the Department of Computer Information Systems, the Department of Management Sciences, the Department of Marketing, and the International Business program.  Before the major formally kicks off in the fall of 2009, we are getting a head start by offering two sections of GSC 115, Introduction to Global Supply Chain Management, in the spring 2009 semester.  Additionally, over the next few months, we will expand further upon plans already initiated for future activities such as regularly bringing in outside speakers from private industry, and further enhancing the numerous relationships between the Rider community and supply chain professionals in both private industry and the non-profit sector.  The objective of these efforts will be to offer students a high quality major that will prepare them for future challenges and successes as professionals in the fast growing field of supply chain management.

I am very excited about the Global Supply Chain Management program, and look forward to working with colleagues in the Rider community as we roll out this important new major.  Please feel free to contact me at any time as questions and suggestions are always welcome.

Sincerely,

Tan Miller
Harper Professor and Director of the Global Supply Chain Management Program