MNGT 331 - Supply Chain Management

Credits: 3

This course is designed to teach the students the following: defining supply chain management (SCM), measuring each activity’s value-added, recognizing the value chain, segmenting the supply chain, and understanding several global technologies for supply chain management. Students will apply the SWOT analysis, understand strategic choices, know the supply chain drives and methodologies. Students will learn demand forecasting (i.e., qualitative and quantitative methods, time-series models, regression, forecast errors), product life cycle forecasting, inventory management and control, Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model, and ABC method of inventory management. Students will be able to recognize various software available for inventory management such as Aggregated Planning, sales and operational (S&OP) planning, Master Production Schedule (MPS) system, production strategy, material requirement planning (MRP) system, and capacity scheduling.

Term(s) Offered: At least once per academic year.

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