Supply Chain Management

What is a minor in supply chain management?

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Through our minor in supply chain management, students learn to manage resources essential to the operation of an organization. The entire product and service lifecycle occurs under the supply chain management umbrella, which includes the centralized search, procurement, and management of the flow of goods and services. This minor emphasizes leveraging the effects of operations within the supply chain to achieve business performance and objectives.

Curriculum

Specialize in supply chain management

Students in the supply chain management minor discuss emerging issues in orchestrating a supply chain across borders for competitive success. The curriculum examines the roles of global economies, politics, infrastructure and competence in the context of supply chain management.

Making good decisions requires the ability to analyze data in straightforward, direct ways that produce high integrity results. This course requires students to apply the decision support models that are most frequently used in supply chain applications. Quantitative and statistical methods for decision making, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analysis, forecasting, linear programming, and decision analysis will be explored. Specific case studies requiring data modeling and analysis will be used to demonstrate the use of the tools presented, requiring students to apply the tool correctly, not simply learn about it.

Supply chain distribution is the methods used to get products to your customers. Advantages of a well-tuned distribution network include: reduced delivery cycle times, lower inventories and resulting increased cash flow, lower costs and higher quality to delivery performance, etc. The choice of the distribution channel, and the performance of the partners operating the distribution mechanics, go a long way towards improving the perception of your organization’s performance in the eyes of your customer.