The field of operations and supply chain management focuses on creating efficiencies in an organization's global "supply chain" – the network of interconnected businesses and activities involved in getting the organization's products or services to the end users. Supply chain management spans the sourcing of raw materials and components, their movements and storage, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods/services from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. The focus is improving the way the organization coordinates and integrates these "flows" within and among organizations.
Curriculum Overview
Students concentrating in operations and supply chain learn how to develop and evaluate business processes, perform strategic and tactical supply chain planning, and manage the activities and resources that transform inputs into finished goods and services.
The operations and supply chain concentration is designed to prepare students in the following areas:
- Knowledge of how goods, services, finances and information flow through the supply chain
- Analysis and resolution of customer and supplier business problems
- Analysis and improvement of business processes to improve customer satisfaction and business performance
- Understanding of how to link suppliers, internal customers, and external customers to create value
- Resolution of real-world supply chain problems through project work with partner companies in the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative