MGMT 364 - Global Supply Chain Management

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: Diversity
Concepts and tools necessary to configure and manage supply chains in a global environment. Topics include network design, strategic planning, supply chain coordination, resource allocation, capacity design, transportation management, material handling, and information technology.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

develop a systematic framework for analyzing the behavior of large and complex supply chain networks.
compare and contrast the motivations of suppliers, producers, and distributors in ensuring supply of raw materials and availability of finished goods.
utilize information technology and various quantitative and qualitative approaches that reduce production, inventory and transportation costs, and improve service levels and profitability.
apply analytic skills to evaluate the diversity and equality performance within a business environment and to identify the areas for improvement

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.