Supply Chain Operations is the hottest technique in today’s industrial operations. Supply Chain Operations courses prepare professionals to
Understand how most industries manage their business today
Know Supply Chain concepts, principles and approaches
Apply appropriate solutions and best practices in a work environment
Technical professionals with problem solving skills and a quantitative aptitude, and who are seeking to expand their knowledge of the field should take these courses.
Courses
MN7953 Introduction to Supply Chain Operations (3-credits)
The learning objective of this course is to give the student a sound general overview of what Supply Chain Operations is, and how it is applied in manufacturing goods and providing services. The course will cover the basic concepts in Supply Chain Operations strategy; demand management; customer service levels; supplier management; safety stock approaches; inventory management; manufacturing planning and execution; warehousing; transportation; information technology and e-communications; and measurement.
MN7963 Supply Chain in Operations (3-credits)
Available online in future semesters.
The learning objective of this course is to know what principles and practices constitute Supply Chain Operations in various environments. It will also cover how these techniques are set up, implemented, and monitored. Specific techniques and practices on the basic concepts in Introduction to Supply Chain Operations will be covered in more detail. Among the course topics are: forecasting; sales and operations planning; make-buy analysis; mastering scheduling; material requirements planning; capacity planning; constraint management; warehouse optimization; transportation solutions and B to B and B to C models.
MN7973 Supply Chain Services and Administration (3-credits)
Available online in future semesters.
The learning objective of this course is to know what principles and practice constitute SCO in a service or administrative environment. It will also cover how these techniques are set up, implemented, and monitored. This course will focus on how models used in manufacturing can be modified and adapted to services and administration. Some of the models covered will be Customer Make to Stock/ Made to order approaches; Volume Variety configuration matrix; constraints and queues; economic size optimization; service level and safety stock relationships; MRP algorithm and Bill of Materials; Lean / Just in time applications.
MN7983 Supply Chain Infrastructure (3-credits)
Available online in future semesters.
The learning objective of this course is to provide detailed information on the prerequisites required before implementing Supply Chain. The infrastructure will cover Product Development, Quality, Employee Involvement and Communication. Among the topics covered will be product realization process and product design; house of quality; quality improvement process; root cause analysis; Shewhart's cycle; statistical quality control; six sigma; kaizan; team building; employee motivation; individual and team dynamics and effective communication principles.
Requirements
Students who take Supply Chain Operations courses should have a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate preparatory discipline from an institution acceptable to Polytechnic.
Tuition: $1073/credit
International Students( F1 or J1 visa) status enrolled at Polytechnic university may register for only one course of on-line/distance education per semester, that may count towards their full time student status requirement. For example, to maintain full time student status a graduate international student in an MS program is required to register for 2 regular courses (6 units) and only one on-line/ distance learning course.
