MS in Supply Chain Management

MGT5001 - Managerial Accounting

Prerequisite: MGT 5000

Credits: 3

Focuses on internal reporting to managers for use in planning and control, making nonroutine decisions and formulating major plans and policies. Includes cost-volume-profit relationships, flexible budgets and standards, job order and process cost, and cost allocation and accumulation.

MGT5002 - Corporate Finance

Prerequisite: MGT 5000

Credits: 3

Covers concepts and tools of corporate financial management including corporate financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, quantitative techniques and practices. Considers the importance of ethics and the international aspects in financial decision-making.

MGT5006 - Introductory Managerial Statistics

Credits: 3

Studies methods of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for managerial decision making. Includes data presentation, measures of central tendency, dispersion and skewness; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling methods and sampling distributions; and confidence interval estimation of parameters and tests of hypotheses.

MGT5020 - Applied Management Project

Requirement(s): Recommended for the graduating semester. May serve as the capstone for certain majors.

Credits: 3

Covers concepts, tools and techniques for evaluation of research proposals and studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating and presenting oral and written forms of research. Assignments build on quantitative and qualitative research methods.

MGT5024 - Production and Operations Management

Credits: 3

Introduces the translation of product and service requirements into facilities, procedures and operating organizations. Includes product design, production alternatives, facilities location and layout, resource requirements planning and quality control.

MGT5064 - Cost and Economic Analysis

Prerequisite: MGT 5006

Credits: 3

Covers cost effectiveness, trade-off analysis, system effectiveness model structure, criteria for evaluation of alternative systems, principles of cost accounting and cost estimating for system life cycle. Includes basic math for cost-effective analysis, computer tools for economic modeling and risk assessment.

MGT5065 - Supply Chain Management

Credits: 3

Combines lectures, class discussions on assigned topics and case analyses. Includes the role of SCM in the economy and organizations; customer service; SCM information systems; inventory management; managing materials flow and handling; transportation; warehousing; computerization and packaging issues; purchasing; global logistics; organizing for effective SCM; methods to control SCM performance; and implementing SCM strategy.

MGT5069 - Advanced Techniques in Supply Chain Management

Prerequisite: MGT 5065

Credits: 3

Covers advanced theory and practice of supply chain management including operational and logistics support. Provides an understanding of strategy, organizational structure and new technologies in SCM. Includes the Internet and its effect on SCM, and the concepts and tools used in SCM. Examines requirements, specifications, planning, program design, and maintenance and quality assurance of SCM systems.

MGT5083 - Global Supply Chain Management and International Logistics

Credits: 3

Focuses on global business. Covers managing raw materials and finished products, developing transportation and logistics strategies, and merging transportation policies with production and marketing plans. Also covers global supply chain analysis and planning to link marketplace, distribution, manufacturing, assembly and procurement activities.

MGT5084 - Materiel Acquisition Management

Requirement(s): May serve as the capstone for certain majors.

Credits: 3

Examines the life cycle process of acquisition of materiel and materiel systems. Examines systems management and its application from acquisition to termination. Studies need requirements, cost and schedule considerations and procurement procedures.