Supply Chain Management Degree

Students develop their knowledge of supply chain management and its interactions with business functions and processes. Students will apply this knowledge to realistic supply chain problems in various organizational settings. Students will analyze the supply chain problems to create value for customers, markets, and society. Emphasis is placed on developing effective strategic decision-making and communication skills. Prerequisite: None

Emphasis is placed on understanding reported financial information used to assess a company’s current performance, future risks, and business opportunities. Students develop skills necessary to understand the performance impact on financial statements and how economic events such as operating activities, corporate investments, and financing transactions affect the three main financial statements - the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Cross-listed with MSF 520 MBA 520 Prerequisite: Graduate standing

The use of a variety of business analytics techniques, including quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis tools, to support informed decision-making serves as a major focus of this course. Techniques addressed include tabular and graphical displays of data such as the bar chart and histogram, numerical measures such as the mean and standard deviation, and linear regression. Critical evaluation of actual business scenarios will be conducted during this course. Cross-listed with MSF 624. MBA 624 Prerequisite: MBA 500 and MBA 520 Prerequisites for MSCM program only: MBA 500 and MBA 520 or MSCM 500 and MBA 520.

Lean Six Sigma is an application of the quantitative Six Sigma quality management techniques within a Lean Enterprise. Building on the fundamentals of Lean and Six Sigma, students will utilize important tools and strategies to improve the performance of business processes. Students will practice solving business problems and improving processes through case studies, team exercises and simulations, and self-assessments. Topics covered will include Six Sigma improvement methodology and tools, lean manufacturing tools and approaches, dashboards, hypotheses testing, and other business improvement techniques. Prerequisite: None

This course examines classical and contemporary issues in managing supply chains in domestic and global environments. The capabilities that a supply chain must have to support a firm’s business strategy are studied. Students learn to analyze and assess the strategic role of the supply chain and the fundamental issues in managing them. Methodologies for designing and planning a supply chain are introduced and methods to apply them in supply chain activities are learned. Prerequisite: MBA 500 or MSCM 500; MAQC Prerequisite: MBA 500

Emphasis is placed on the operational activities that successfully create and deliver products and services across the entire supply chain from the raw material to the final product. Included is the development of those performance skills which enhance the supplier and customer relationships and the order fulfillment activities. Techniques addressed include demand forecasting, quality performance analysis, and productivity measurement. Prerequisite: MBA 641 and MBA 655; Prerequisite for SCMTMS: MBA 670 and MSCM 550; Prerequisite for MAQC: MBA 641 only; Prerequisite for MSBAN: MBA 520 and BAN 600; Prerequisite for MSA: MBA 624.

Students analyze current issues and strategies in transportation management and policy. Global carrier management problems and opportunities, and economic characteristics of the various modes of transportation are studied. Students micro-analyze transportation and logistics management including customer service and order fulfillment, distribution operations, purchasing or operation of transportation services, warehousing, third-party logistics providers, and network design. The course includes a focus on distribution operations, purchasing, order processing, facility design and operations, carrier selection, transportation costing, and negotiation. Prerequisite: None

Students examine sustainability criteria in the 'upstream' supply chain management and procurement process. Students evaluate how corporations can improve environmental performance while addressing ethics, social, and economic concerns (or the 'triple bottom line'). Students explore current sustainability topics in a supply chain management perspective through applied learning. Prerequisite: None

This course is an examination of the basic categories of regulations and laws to develop the framework within which organizations operate in the global economy. The international framework will be contrasted with the one constraining domestic operations. Knowledge and skills in making ethical, strategic decisions within this framework will be developed through readings, assignments, and projects. Ethical and moral analysis will examine issues in human rights, environmental considerations, investment, and social responsibility considerations. Prerequisite MBA 500

Properly addressing risks and facing disruptions are of primary concern in supply chain management. In the wake of high-consequence disruptive events, risk identification and disruption response activities have become ever more critical. The objective of the course is to provide an overview of key supply chain risk areas, particularly with the proliferation of outsourcing, the use of information technology, the transformation of the supply chain model into digital supply networks, and global logistics. Equally important is how companies manage the preparation, mitigation, and response strategies to major disruptive events. Applied learning assignments will be used to illustrate how to handle supply chain disruption and how to make decisions. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all Masters in Supply Chain Management courses; MBA 667 can be taken concurrently.