TOM & SCM alumni - Jasper Stein

I pursued the master TOM as well as the master SCM. The content was great! Before doing both of these masters, I graduated from the bachelor of Industrial Engineering and Management. During the bachelor's, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to do a master's degree that was more focused on supply chain management and the technical parts of operations, and that was exactly what I found within my two masters. The level is very different across the courses, but that also really depends on what your own skills are. For example, courses including programming were harder for me level wise compared to courses that used a more theory wise approach. I think that, overall, both masters had a good level of difficulty, in which the level of the TOM master was slightly higher compared to SCM.

Currently I am doing a supply chain traineeship at YER, in which I am now being seconded to a company in Assen called M&G Group. Within this company, I work as a Warehouse Support in which I support and solve problems that occur in systems such as sap and with people in the operation. Actually, the education that I have had prepared me a lot for the position that I now have, especially theory wise. I am able to spot connections within companies and problems that occur within systems more easily due to the education that I have. However, the difference between studying and actually working with people is something that I had to experience while working. I think that the education does align a lot with the requirements of the job market, except for the part of actually performing tasks within a company involving people in the operations.