Supply Chain Management Certificate Curriculum
OPMT 750 – 3 credits
This course will provide an overview of the basic principles of supply chain management, giving students an understanding of supply chain processes from sourcing to finished goods and customers to suppliers, identifying the core supply chain processes. Students will learn the key mechanisms of how companies manage internal processes that control the flow of inventory in the supply chain.
Prerequisites: NONE.
OPMT 751 – 3 credits
In today’s global supply chains, products often travel across multiple countries, using various modes of transportation, and inventory is held in many locations before reaching final customers. Along the way, these products are processed at a variety of inventory transfer points, and reconfigured and combined with other products with the goal of arriving intact without damage in the right quantity, at the right place and right time. Effectively managing these flows requires understanding the underlying economics of weight, volume, distance and velocity. It requires taking an end-to-end view of the logistics and transportation network to understand how changes in one link impact others. It also requires openness to change, including adopting new network designs and other innovations that promise to improve processes in fundamental ways
Prerequisites: NONE.
OPMT 752 – 3 credits
The past several years with COVID have amplified the importance of Strategic Sourcing in supply chains. As companies witnessed supply chain breakdowns, shipment delays, COVID related shutdowns, and increased manufacturing constraints of the past few years, the Strategic Sourcing function has become more critical. As companies invest in mitigating supply chain risk to ensure supply chain resilience, the Strategic Sourcing function has become more crucial. This course examines Strategic Sourcing strategies that directly deliver more innovative products, faster time to market, lower total landed cost, increased gross margin, enhanced corporate reputation, risk mitigation, and resilience in supply chain that leads to competitive advantage.
Prerequisites: NONE.
MGMT 808 – 3 credits
This course explores the major concepts of negotiation inherent in any business or personal situation. The focus will be on interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. Through the analysis of bargaining and conflict situations, students will be able to learn their own individual "negotiating styles." Some of the major elements of the course include distributive (win-lose) negotiations, integrative (winwin) negotiations, the use of power in negotiations and negotiation ethics. Negotiation cases will be used extensively in the course to allow students to improve their negotiation skills through "hands on" scenarios. Beginning with relatively simple one-on-one negotiations, the course will progress to 9 complex, multi-party negotiations where class members will assume different roles. Attendance is CRITICAL for success in this course, given the multiple graded mock negotiation exercises that are part of the in-class learning experience. Students who expect to miss two or more class meetings during the term should NOT register for this course.
Prerequisites: NONE.