Supply Chain Management (SCM)

The course introduces students to supply chain management, including its interrelationships with other functional areas of business. It is an integrated approach to planning, sourcing, making, and delivering (logistics) products and services.

Purchasing is required by all types of goods-producing & service-providing organizations in such sectors as manufacturing, agriculture, health care, & government. This professional business function tries to buy the right good or service at the right quality, in the right quantity, at the right time, at the right price, from the right source, with delivery at the right place within the context of supply chains.

The course focuses on best practices in supply chain operations. Effective use of process analysis and value stream mapping is emphasized. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to understand and apply lean and six sigma, process design and value stream mapping, quality control, and capacity management.

The course deals with design and management of distribution networks in global markets. Topics cover logistics, transportation, inventory, regulatory issues, reverse logistics, within the context of supply chains. Emerging technologies are discussed.

This supply chain management capstone course is designed for students to synthesize both theoretical and practical knowledge they have acquired throughout the program in a collaborative capstone project and via case analysis.

Strategic sourcing is an organizational strategy focused on the organization's upstream functions within a supply chain. Strategic sourcing is focused on optimizing the organization's competitive position in the supply chain.

The course will focus on new technologies and advances in the field of supply chain management such as digital supply chain management. Implementation and management of these will be discussed.

Joint faculty/industry directed remote and/or onsite project in Supply Chain Management (Department approval required)

Joint faculty/industry directed remote and/or on-site course experience in supply chain management.