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Credentials and skills that raise your pay

• The SCPro (Supply Chain Professional) certification

  Run by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, which has been the main industry body since 1963.

• SQL (the language used to pull data out of databases)

  The difference between waiting for a report and getting the answer yourself.

• Enterprise planning systems

  Knowing how a large company's ordering and inventory system actually works is a hiring requirement at scale.

• Lean and Six Sigma training

  Process improvement methods that manufacturers ask for by name.