Strategic Supply Chain Management

“New technologies for supply chain management and flexible manufacturing imply that businesses can perceive imbalances in inventories at a very early stage – virtually in real time – can cut production promptly in response to the developing signs of unintended inventory building.”

Alan Greenspan, in testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, February 13th, 2001

All companies, large and small, manufacturers and service providers, depend on successful supplier performance to help satisfy their customers. The performance of an agile, motivated, and responsive supply base can improve operating efficiencies, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.

Strategic supply chain management integrates the business processes associated with the procurement of material, the transformation of procured material into final product, and the delivery of final product to customers within the context of a Strategic Supply Chain Management  Framework.

The framework  emphasizes the importance of aligning supply chain strategy with business strategy and in leveraging information technology as both an enabler for business process efficiency and effectiveness and  as a means of sharing knowledge and information among global supply chain partners.

The Strategic Supply Chain Management Program at the Howe School emphasizes a business process management orientation to solving current and future supply chain challenges.  Tapping into the information management and technology expertise of the school, the program provides a foundation in technology-enabled information flow so critical to the success of the 21st Century Supply Chain.

The Strategic Supply Chain Management concentration in the MSIS degree program offered by the Howe School of Technology Management  provides students with a breadth of understanding surrounding  supply chain strategy and management and its integration with business strategy, and a depth of understanding of supply chain management’s three core process  areas, namely: procurement and supplier management, operations management, and distribution and logistics management.

Audience: IT professionals and supply chain business professionals seeking graduate-level coursework in these areas, as part of a Master’s degree or as a standalone certificate.

• MIS 501 Information Management
• MIS 502 Introduction to Accounting, Microeconomics, Statistics and Finance

Business Core

• MGT 609 Introduction to Project Management
• MGT 623 Financial Management
• MGT 680 Organizational Behavior and Theory

Required Information Systems Core

• MIS 710 Process Innovation and Management
• MIS 730 Integrating IS Technologies
• MIS 750 Management of IT Organizations
• MIS 760 IT Strategy

Strategic Supply Chain Management - Concentration Courses:

• MIS 690 Supply Chain Management and Strategy
• MIS 691 Procurement and Supplier Management
• MIS 692 Distribution and Logistics Management
• MGT 657 Operations Management
  

Select one from the following:

• MIS 620 Analysis and Development of Information Systems
• MIS 630 Data and Knowledge Management
• MIS 640 Managing Information Networks
• MGT 800 Special Problems in Management (Thesis Practicum)