Center for Supply Chain Management

About the Center

The Western Michigan University Center for Supply Chain Management is a destination for companies or individuals seeking a true value chain center of excellence. Our commitment is to helping your organization develop professionals who can immediately make a contribution and create a competitive advantage by applying key concepts in dynamic, agile and responsive supply chains. Your team will learn best-practice rules, tools and processes that increase performance in your organization.

Center for Supply Chain Management
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5430 USA
(269) 387-6130

Helping you and your organization meet challenges of the future

WMU’s Center for Supply Chain Management offers the training professionals, students and organizations need to stay up-to-date in the latest supply chain management techniques and processes. You will gain a deeper understanding of key concepts and gain complete solutions for your training needs from leading researchers and industry experts.
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Tom Kelly, Black Belt and instructor of marketing

Tom Kelly is an instructor of marketing at Western Michigan University. He has more than 30 years of supply chain and supplier quality experience in various leadership positions with Dexter Company, Amcor, Conn-Selmer, Whirlpool and Parker Hannifin. He won two “excellence in quality” awards while at Whirlpool. During his time in the private sector, he developed numerous supplier quality measurement and assessment systems and established supply chain processes that allowed for ISO certification.

His teaching focus at Western includes Lean Six Sigma, supply chain and how the two subjects interact in a business environment. Kelly is a certified Black Belt, as well as trained auditor. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Western Michigan University. Additionally, he has been an adjunct business instructor at the University of Notre Dame.

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Dr. Tom Scannell, Yellow Belt Healthcare Management and professor of marketing

Tom Scannell is a professor of marketing at Western Michigan University. He teaches process and operations management, purchasing, ethics, sustainable operations, business strategy, quantitative analysis and quality management at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has served on and chaired many committees, and was director of the MBA program. 

His publications have appeared in numerous journals including Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Modern Management Science and Engineering, Sloan Management Review and The World Financial Review.

He is a co-author of two books, one regarding supplier integration into new product development and the other related to supply risk management. He has also published industry reports with CAPS Research.

Scannell helped establish the Supply Chain Management Council of West Michigan. His 11 years of industry experience include work as an electronics design engineer, systems engineer, program and project manager, and new product development manager.

Scannell is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a certified Lean Six Sigma Healthcare Yellow Belt. He holds a Ph.D. in operations and sourcing management from Michigan State University, an MBA from Western Michigan University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Western Michigan University.