Supply Chain/Inventory Management Intern - Summer 2025 - Military Veterans

Job Summary
With more than 50+ years of consecutive growth, we've created a dynamic workplace where over 36,000 employees worldwide are empowered to grow and add to our entrepreneurial culture.

To support our continued growth, we're looking to add new talent, like you, to our team! Our people are genuine, creative, and proactive problem solvers who have access to leadership for rapid alignment to make decisions driven by what's right for our customers.

A Medline internship offers you real-world, hands-on experience where you can make a true impact. Interns take ownership of their projects and get a feel for day-to-day work in their respective roles. In addition to a typical Medline workday, the summer is jam-packed with enriching activities, such as social and networking events, leadership presentations, learning and development opportunities, community service projects, plus so much more. The tangible skillset you'll build while doing meaningful work will set you apart from your peers.

Covering a variety of business areas and needs, our internships are available to rising seniors in undergraduate programs. Engineered for personal and professional development, our summer program runs for ten weeks from early June through mid-August.

A Supply Chain Intern at Medline will work directly with senior level managers on process improvement and business system projects across all aspects of the supply chain. The scope of work includes optimization of supply and demand planning, inventory deployment strategies, stocking policies, and other projects to meet company objectives on service levels, inventory targets, and expense reduction. The intern will be responsible for extracting data, reporting, and converting data into information to make decisions off of. All intern projects are tied directly to the department's strategic initiatives, ensuring true positive impact that will be integrated into the teams beyond completion of the internship.

Job Description

Examples of possible projects include:

• Analysis on impact of expanding or contracting warehouse network for certain product categories
• Automation of vendor lead time review and maintenance procedures
• Build a forecast and production schedule for the different products or components
• Simulation of different stocking strategies and running different scenarios recommend the lowest total cost option
• Root cause analysis of backordered or surplus products to recommend process improvements
• Optimization of inventory deployment and balancing processes to achieve better outcomes with less manual effort
• Develop reports to detect outliers and potential issues before they impact the system

Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or Engineering (Industrial preferred)
• Junior standing with 3.0 minimum GPA preferred
• Strong leadership abilities and demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent organization, communication, data analysis and follow up skills (Project management experience preferred)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement principles is a plus (Six Sigma, PMP, CPIM)
• Knowledge of data and visualization applications (Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, TDV, KNIME, SAP, Business Objects) is a plus
• Unrestricted permanent US work authorization

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here .

Every day, we're focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what's right to delivering business results, together, we're better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here .

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.