Master of Science in Supply Chain Management

Business Core Courses (9 credit hours)

• OPRE 6301 Quantitative Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Business
  Introduction to statistical and probabilistic methods and theory applicable to situations faced by managers. Topics include: data presentation and summarization, regression analysis, fundamental probability theory and random variables, introductory decision analysis, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and One Way ANOVA (Some sections of this class may require a laptop computer). Prerequisite: MATH 5304 or equivalent.
• OPRE 6302 Operations Management
  Operations Management integrates all of the activities and processes that are necessary to provide products and services. This course overviews methods and models that help managers make better operating decisions over time. How these methods will allow firms to operate both manufacturing and service facilities in order to compete in a global environment will also be discussed. Prerequisite: OPRE 6301

And one of the following courses:

• ACCT 6305 Accounting for Managers
  Fundamental concepts in accounting and financial reporting are presented from the perspective of business managers. May not be substituted for, or taken for program credit in addition to, ACCT 6201 or ACCT 6202.
• FIN 6301 Financial Management
  Theoretical and procedural considerations in the administration of the finance function in the individual business firm; planning, fundraising, controlling of firm finances; working capital management, capital budgeting and cost of capital. Prerequisites: OPRE 6301 and ACCT 6201, or consent of instructor.

SCM Core Courses (9 credit hours)

• OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
  Key issues associated with the design and management of industrial supply chains. The efficient integration of suppliers, factories, warehouses, and stores so that products are distributed to global customers in the right quantity and at the right time. Prerequisite: OPRE 6302 or consent of the instructor
• OPRE 6370 Logistics, Distribution and Warehousing
  This course focuses on the design and analysis of transportation and supply chain systems including the components such as suppliers, warehouse, packaging and material handling, customers, production, inventory, orders, transportation, and information systems. The course also discusses the interactions between these components; models and techniques for the analysis of logistics systems as well as the strategic financial outcomes influenced by the logistics decisions. Prerequisites: OPRE 6302 or consent of the instructor.
• OPRE 6371 Strategic Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
  Basic concepts and processes in purchasing and sourcing management are introduced in this course. It teaches global sourcing techniques and the application of various management tools and quality tools in purchasing. Focus is on the proactive and planned analysis of supply markets and the selection of suppliers, with the objective of delivering solutions to meet predetermined and agreed organizational needs.

• OPRE 6311 Game Theory
  Course Description Not Available.
• OPRE 6325 Healthcare Operations Management
  Explores how effectively managing and continuously improving the end-to-end health care supply chain provides a competitive advantage. Topics include supply chain fundamentals, key players in the health care supply chain and their challenges, how the health care supply chain works, impact of technology on supply chain performance, and lean six sigma methodology. Simulations and case studies will reinforce the learning.
• OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
  This course explains the concepts of effective spreadsheet design and model building utilizing the electronic spreadsheet as the principal device. The course helps students to take an analytic view and acquire knowledge about specific decision making techniques for business, such as optimization and simulation, building spreadsheet models to identify choices, formalize trade-offs, specify constraints, perform sensitivity analyses, and analyze the impact of uncertainty. The course also examines the applications in finance, economics, marketing, and operations.
• OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
  This course provides an overview of the main concepts and methods of risk assessment, risk management, and decision analysis. The methods used in industry, such as probabilistic risk assessment, six sigma, and reliability, are discussed. Advanced methods from economics and finance (decision optimization and portfolio analysis) are presented. Prerequisite: OPRE 6301.
• OPRE 6340 Flexible Manufacturing Strategies
  The use of automation in manufacturing is continuously increasing. This course covers the variety of types of flexible automation, including flexible manufacturing systems, integrated circuit fabrication and assembly, and robotics. Examples of international systems are discussed to show the wide variety of systems designs and problems. Strategic as well as economic justification issues are covered.
• OPRE 6361 Production Planning and Control
  Analysis of the production system of a manufacturing organization. Classical modeling and decision methods including simulation methods for stochastic models and exact and heuristic solutions of deterministic models. Material Requirement Planning systems and Flexible Manufacturing systems. Prerequisite: OPRE 6302 or consent of instructor.
• OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
  Critical path methods for planning and controlling projects including time/cost tradeoffs, resource utilization, and stochastic considerations. Managerial considerations include project costing, organizational design, and conflict resolution. Applications include engineering, system start-up/shutdown, new product introductions, management of research, and construction projects.
• OPRE 6363 Inventory Control
  Analysis of deterministic and simple stochastic inventory models. Stochastic periodic reorder models with simple deterministic and simulation solutions. Lot size models and their extensions, reorder point determination, price break, Wagner-Whitin, Modigliani-Holn models. Prerequisite: OPRE 6302 or consent of instructor.
• OPRE 6364 Quality Control (Lean Six Sigma)
  Concepts and theory of quality control in manufacturing and service operations. Analysis of product design, process capability studies, statistical process control, and acceptance sampling.

• OPRE 6367 Capstone Project in Supply Chain
  Capstone projects are sponsored by local industries and provide the students an opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained to solve real world challenging problems in the area of supply chain management. Students work in a team environment, interact with industry leaders and gain some industry specific knowledge. Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
• OPRE 6368 Industrial Applications in Supply Chains
  The course discusses and reviews major Supply Chain challenges and relevant decision making tools used in the industry. The course proceeds with the analysis of real-life cases during which the students obtain industry specific knowledge. Some of the industries of interest are Telecommunications, High-tech Electronics, Semiconductors, Consumer Goods and Retail. Prerequisites: OPRE 6366 or consent of instructor. Topics may vary.
• OPRE 6369 Supply Chain Software (SAP APO)
  The course teaches planning and execution of supply chains with software such as SAP’s ERP (R3) and Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO). This software is used in lab exercises that provide students with hands-on, experimental learning. The focus is on the supply planning function of supply chain management. Topics include: introduction to ERP and SAP, master and transaction data, MRP, forecasting, supply and demand matching, and integration of ERP and APO modules. This course is intended for graduate students with interests in software-based supply chain management. No SAP experience is required. Prerequisites: OPRE 6301 and OPRE 6302 or the permission of the instructor.
• OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Management
  Taking a collaborative view between marketing, operations and other business functional areas, this course teaches the theory, techniques and best practices of how to effectively manage the overall supply chain processes by simultaneously aligning their demand with supply, capacity, and inventory positions to better manage market share and enhance revenues and gross margin.
• OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
  The success of a product in today’s global marketplace depends, to a large extent, on activities of firms in the product’s supply chain and their processing of information. This course will focus on the value of information and technology, and effective ways to use that information in optimizing global operations and information. The course will cover some analytical methods to quantify the costs and benefits of information and the technology used to obtain information in supply chain improvement initiatives or supply-chain restructuring opportunities. Case studies will be used to discuss the role of information technology (e.g., RFID) and innovative processes, (e.g.,CPFR), in functional areas such as new product development, manufacturing outsourcing, and distribution operations. Prerequisites: OPRE 6301 or equivalent or consent of the instructor.
• OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
  Course Description not Available.
• OPRE 6385 Scheduling
  Concepts and theory of scheduling problems with business applications. Combinatorial approaches for simple systems, and queuing/simulation methods for large and/or complex systems. Prerequisite: OPRE 6302 or consent of instructor.
• OPRE 6388 Engineering Packaged Goods Distribution
  This course covers both warehouse and DSD models of distribution common in consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, in which network engineering design, distribution & replenishment planning and transportation planning / execution are performed. Students will also learn about unique distribution engineering aspects of returns, recycling, variety and display products and push/pull/hybrid delivery. In addition, this class focuses heavily on the practical operational aspects of distribution management through discussion and case studies.
• OPRE 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
  MERIT is designed for students or professionals interested in the energy sector. Energy sector houses applications from several academic disciplines: Operations Management, Engineering and Technology, Risk Management, Economics and Finance. Students currently involved in these and similar academic programs can take MERIT to learn the fundamentals of the energy sector. MERIT prepares such students and professionals for entry- to mid-level management careers in the energy sector.

Supply Chain Technology (3 credit hours)

• OPRE 6390 (MIS 6319) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  This course is intended to cover the evolution of computing from standalone technology islands to networked computing systems and from standalone applications to integrated enterprise wide applications. It includes a discussion of the idea behind client server computing, application development for a client server architecture, and selection and implementation of ERP systems. A part of the course will be set aside for demonstrations and hands on exercises with one of the available ERP software.
• OPRE 6391 (MIS 6309) Business Data Warehousing with SAP
  The course will discuss data warehousing principles and techniques, and introductory business intelligence. It includes topics such as data warehouse design, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) framework, data cubes, and data marts. Reporting and business intelligence using data warehouses will also be covered. The course currently uses SAP as a tool to illustrate these concepts.
• OPRE 6392 (MIS 6372) IT Services Management
  The purpose of this course is to examine and explain how organizations engage and manage their global sourcing of business and IT services throughout the outsourcing lifecycle. The course covers topics related to the sourcing strategies and models, due diligence and supplier selection processes, configuration fit and operational effectiveness concepts and different ITO delivery models. It also focuses on organizational, technological and economical aspects associated with the outsourcing of IT services and functions. Students will learn how to manage outsourcing initiatives and globally dispersed teams effectively.
• OPRE 6393 (MIS 6320) Database Foundations
  The course is designed to provide database knowledge for non-MIS business students to function effectively in their functional area. The course covers fundamentals of relational databases, relational database structure, database queries, and reports. Structured Query Language will be used extensively. Applications of databases for accounting, finance, marketing, and other areas of business will be emphasized.
• OPRE 6394 (ENTP 6375, SYSM 6332) Technology and New Product Development
  This course addresses the strategic and organizational issues confronted by firms in technology-intensive environments. The course reflects six broad themes: (1) managing firms in technology-intensive industries; (2) forecasting key industry and technology trends; (3) linking technology and business strategies; (4) using technology as a source of competitive advantage; (5) organizing firms to achieve these goals; and (6) implementing new technologies in organizations. Students will analyze actual situations in organizations and summarize their findings and recommendations in an in-depth term paper. Case studies and class participation are stressed.
• OPRE 6395 (SYSM 6317) The Management of High-Tech Products
  Building on the premise that successful product management involves getting the right product to the right customer at the right price at the right time, the course will teach techniques in product identification and requirements; product development; management of internal resources, including manufacturing, sales and management; costing and pricing decisions; product planning and winning the right design win.

Free Elective Course (Optional 3 credit hours)

This is optional. Students may choose any three-credit-hour graduate-level course in the Jindal School of Management to satisfy this portion of the degree plan. Sample elective course may include:

• IMS 7V53 International Supply Chain Study Trip (Eastern-Europe)
  An international trip to Poland and Germany takes place every spring semester. This is an SCM elective course.
• OPRE 6396 (OB 6332) Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
  This course explores the theories, processes, and practical techniques of negotiation so that students can successfully negotiate and resolve disputes in a variety of situations including interpersonal, group, and international settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding influence and conflict resolution strategies; identifying interests, issues, and positions of the parties involved; analyzing co-negotiators, their negotiation styles, and the negotiation situations; and managing the dynamics associated with most negotiations. Practical skills are developed through the use of simulations and exercises.
• OPRE 6397 (IMS 6365) Cross Culture Communication and Management
  This course focuses on understanding national culture and cultural issues in international business. It emphasizes the importance of managing cultural differences to enhance communication, negotiation, leadership, and group dynamics in an international work environment. Further, the course describes methods to develop effective selection and training programs for international assignments.