Supply Chain Management Track Courses

OM 335 Operations Management
Fundamentals of business process analysis and management including concepts such as capacity management, effects of work-in-process, inventory, and process variability on performance, process control, and quality.

OM 337.1 Total Quality Management
Strategic role of quality in product and process design. The cost of quality and the seven quality tools for continuous improvement. Fundamental concepts of statistical process control, acceptance sampling, and process capability. Corporate wide quality initiatives such as six sigma, Malcolm Baldrige Award, and ISO9000 certification.

OM 337.2 Supply Chain Strategy and Optimization
Basic cost and financial modeling in supply chains. Use of optimization models for logistics networks, supplier, production, inventory, and distribution, for end-to-end supply chain. Use of discrete event simulation to model production, distribution, and inventory in supply chains. Real options modeling in supply chains using decision analysis and simulation.

OM 337.3 Procurement and Supplier Management
Strategic issues in procurement and supplier management. Supplier evaluation, development, and relationship management. Reverse auctions, e-procurement, outsourcing, vendor managed inventory, and global sourcing. Development of negotiating skills for effective and ethical results.

OM 337.4 Information Systems for Operations
Modeling of how firms gather, represent, process, and distribute information and knowledge. Forecasting including trends and seasonality. Data mining and total data quality management. Simultaneous material-data process redesign. Systems development and implementation in an operations context.

OM 367 Strategic Supply Chain Management
Integrates and explores the relationship between the elements of supply chain management. A process-oriented view of the value-added chain from product/process concept to the sourcing of raw materials to the product/service delivery including after sales service. Includes the management of customers, organizations, operations, information, and knowledge. Project management skills and use of MS Project software are developed.

OM 368 Logistics and Inventory Management
Lot sizing for deterministic and time varying demand. Inventory policies for uncertain demand and for short life cycle products. Production planning and scheduling. Design and management of supply and distribution networks.

MAN 336 Organizational Behavior and Administration
The process of managing organizations and the behavior of individuals and groups within the organizational setting.

MAN 374 General Management and Strategy
This course addresses management strategy and the processes a general manager/owner uses to examine business situations, to develop strategies, goals and objectives, and to implement chosen courses of action that guide the organization toward success. Concepts, knowledge, and skills acquired in previous functional core courses are integrated with information about the activities and environment which a manager faces when making strategic decisions. This is a case-based class, with a heavy emphasis on class participation. There is also substantial group work in the course.