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Mar 13, 2025
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BUS 3890 - Supply Chain Management3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course exposes students to the flow of materials and information from suppliers to customers in manufacturing and service firms. Topics will include the importance of supply chain to a business, challenges and benefits of utilization of global supply chains, strategies for designing effective supply chains, and various information-sharing systems available to increase efficiencies. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Outline the connection between supply chain strategy and overall business execution and strategy
- Describe the sources of variability within a supply chain and strategies to mitigate variability
- Describe the roles, value, and connection between each tier in a supply chain
- Create and describe metrics that can be used to measure and improve the performance of a supply chain
- Outline reasons for various strategies in distribution networks of product to end consumer
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Development of supply up to 21st century supply chains
- Customer demand and effect on supply chains
- Designing supply strategy and making sourcing decisions
- Supplier relationships
- Performance measurement and improvement
- Integrated demand and production planning across the supply chain
- Operations analysis
- Distribution network design
- Inventory strategy and execution
- The importance of packaging design
- Global supply chain challenges and benefits
- Supply continuity risks and mitigation strategies
- The future of supply
Coordinator
Dr. David Rollins
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