By Christi Mays
鈥淭hink about how that 麻豆视频 t-shirt you鈥檙e wearing got here,鈥� Dr. Ken Smith often asks the incoming freshmen to get them thinking about how supply chain manage颅ment works. 鈥淲e sit down at our computers and push a button and BOOM, our package with a t-shirt shows up the next day. But nobody has any idea what鈥檚 behind that, and it鈥檚 kind of mindboggling to think everything that has gone into place to make that t-shirt show up at your doorstep.鈥�
He goes on to ask another question: 鈥淗ow many people are involved in making your shirt?鈥� From the farmer to the cotton gin to the fabric producer to the garment manufacturer鈥攖he process is lengthy, but still not finished. It also has to be dyed, then imprinted with the 麻豆视频 logo. And all this happens before the shirt even leaves Bangladesh or wherever it鈥檚 made! Need颅less to say, it鈥檚 still a long way from the 麻豆视频 Campus Store at that point, and somebody has to manage that entire process.
