{"631532":{"#nid":"631532","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Alumnus Karan Agrawal Shares His Supply Chain Insights on \u0022Supply Chain Now\u0022 Podcast","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESupply chain has fascinated Karan Agrawal since early in his college career. As an avid coffee drinker, he began thinking about how the coffee beans in Costa Rica seamlessly translate into a cup of coffee in the USA. His growing curiosity about supply chain led\u0026nbsp;him to found \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/apicsgt\u0022\u003EAPICS at GT\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2060Now an alum (BSIE 19), Karan works for\u0026nbsp; Dell in Austin, TX on an operations strategy team, focusing on strategic initiatives\u0026nbsp;to digitize Dell\u0026#39;s global supply chain.\u0026nbsp;Karan was recently featured on the \u0026quot;Supply Chain Now\u0026quot; podcast, speaking on \u0026quot;Why Millennials are Perfect for Supply Chain \u0026amp; How to Successfully Start Your Career.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u2060\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2060\u0026quot;Every millennial today wants to be in a cross-functional role,\u0026quot; he notes. \u0026quot;And supply chain, by definition, is a global interconnected network which has numerous complex problems to solve.This challenge excites me everyday.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u2060You can listen to the podcast episode \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/supplychainnowradio.com\/episode-194\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2060\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn his appearance on the SCN episode, Karan discusses why millennials make for excellent hires in this industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Supply chain has fascinated ISyE alumnus Karan Agrawal since early in his college career. He was recently featured in an episode of the \u0022Supply Chain Now\u0022 podcast."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-01-24 14:15:22","changed_gmt":"2020-01-24 18:27:34","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"631558":{"id":"631558","type":"image","title":"Karan Agrawal","body":null,"created":"1579890436","gmt_created":"2020-01-24 18:27:16","changed":"1579890436","gmt_changed":"2020-01-24 18:27:16","alt":"Karan Agrawal","file":{"fid":"240336","name":"Karan 1X.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karan%201X.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karan%201X.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":283682,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Karan%201X.jpg?itok=hM1SHpwU"}}},"media_ids":["631558"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"177592","name":"Karan Agrawal"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"},{"id":"183698","name":"Supply Chain Now"},{"id":"88601","name":"podcast"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"2695","name":"alumnus"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["swundersmith3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}