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Supply Chain Certificate Program

The following two classes are required:

 Select six credits from the following courses:

Note: Other courses may be included as part of the six-credit electives with graduate office approval and course offering formats are subject to change.

Course Descriptions

GBUS 450 Strategic Supply Management (3)
A survey course introducing the vital role played by supply management in achieving overall effectiveness for the firm in today's global economy. The course starts by examining the traditional purchasing process and then moves on to an examination of the evolution of purchasing into supply management and finally to the role purchasing plays in improving effectiveness for the entire value chain.

GBUS 453 Transportation and Logistics Management (3)
The control of physical distribution and inventories; the flow of information, products and cash through integrated supply chains.

GBUS 447 Negotiation (3)
Examines the behavioral foundations of the negotiation process. Topics include: the negotiation process, negotiation planning, power in negotiations, communications in negotiation, tactics, concepts of win-win and win-lose, social styles, individual and team negotiations, ethical considerations, cultural differences, negotiating in sole source (customer) situations, using third parties. The concepts will be exposed through both lectures and simulations. The major evaluation for the course will be a complex, comprehensive simulation.

GBUS 455. E-Business Enterprise Applications (3)
Implications of key information technologies used within and across businesses to conduct e-business, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, on-line ordering and inventory management, supply chain management, and e-procurement systems, data warehousing, data mining, intra-extranets, and knowledge management.

GBUS 459 Survey of Project Management (3)
Provides an overview of the project management framework and knowledge areas. It deals with the day-to-day, hands-on problems of managing a project (defined as a temporary structure within a permanent organization, set up to achieve a specific objective). Areas covered will include: project integration, project scope, project planning and implementation, project control and evaluation, project cost and risk management, project resource management and organization, and project communication. Cases will be used to illustrate problems and the techniques to solves them. A basic project management software tool will be introduced and utilized in this course. This course is designed for students who want a general exposure to project management concepts. This course may not be used in the Project Management Certificate Program.

GBUS 464 Business to Business Marketing (3)
This course focuses on marketing strategies and tactics in firms whose customers are other institutions, not individuals. Topics covered include organizational buying behavior, managing strategic buyer-seller relationships, sales force deployment, communication strategies, and so on. Specific attention is given to the impact of information technology and globalization in the business-to-business context.

MSE 438. Agile Organizations & Manufacturing Systems (3)
Analysis of the factors contributing to the success of manufacturing enterprises in an environment characterized by continuous and unpredictable change. Fundamentals of lean production: aspects of systems design, value stream analysis, flow, set-up and cycle time reduction, kaizen, elimination of waste. Fundamentals of agility: global enterprises, virtual organizations, adapting to change, mass customization, manufacturing flexibility, activity-based management.

MSE 446. International Supply Chain Management (3)
Financial and managerial issues. Evaluation, selection, development and management of suppliers; business models, financial reporting strategies, earnings, quality, risk assessment and internal control, team based new product development. Selected readings, case studies, discussions, lectures, group projects, and presentations.

MSE 423/ME 401. Product Design/Analysis (3)
Integrated approach to design and analysis of products and systems. Principles for robust design and use of computer-aided engineering to model, evaluate, and enhance design. Case studies and design assignments are major components of this course.