Online Bachelor's in Operations and Supply Chain Management

The opportunities for students, in this first course, for all majors are to learn personal and professional leadership styles and drivers by providing an overview of leadership basics. Leadership skills are utilized across fields of study. Regardless of the roles individuals assume in an organization, they will need to communicate effectively, influence others, and understand the way they respond to others and why. The course engages students in discussion, exploration, and application of leadership skills, principles, and practices. Students will learn about the relationships and connections leaders have with individuals and organizations. Topics include leadership communication, motivation, style, and characteristics.

Credits: 3

This course provides students with an understanding of process strategy, quality improvement, and the tools utilized in the production of goods and services. Students learn concepts regarding operations, quality, and process management, and evaluate how these concepts can be used to gain a competitive advantage in the industry. Students also learn how mathematical models are used to assist in making decisions in regard to operations, inventory, quality, and materials requirements.

Credits: 3

In this course, students are prepared to understand the role of financial performance in the management of a company’s processes and services and its influence on an enterprise’s financial viability. The course will focus on the integration of operations management and financial management as well as on the reasons why asset management is an essential organizational process and the benefits of ISO 9000. Additionally, the concepts of net present value, internal rate of return and other cost effectiveness indicators, and a general approach to the international standards for organizations are reviewed. Students will review each topic in the context of their own workplace as well as across different organizations and industries and throughout the global environment.  

Credits: 3

In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine information systems for operations management. They investigate analytical frameworks and methods that can be used to evaluate information systems, determine information system requirements, and plan implementation strategies to establish information systems. Topics include databases, data management, ethics, security, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other information technology content.

Credits: 3

This course focuses on the leadership and supervisory roles and responsibilities of a manager in the context of operations management. Topics include leadership, human capital, labor relationships, work environment, diversification, and workplace culture within the context of students own workplace, as well as across different organizations and industries in the global environment.

Credits: 3

This course provides the student with an examination of the concept and design of supply chains for manufacturing and service organizations. Specific emphasis is placed on the management of those supply chains, including management of purchasing, contracting, costing, working with vendors, and working with customers. Students analyze the innovative capabilities of effectively managed supply chains and the overall effect those supply chains can have on the bottom line for an organization.

Credits: 3

This course examines the procurement-management knowledge aspect of project management. A critical component is obtaining the appropriate resources from external and internal vendors, which is the responsibility of the project manager. Students will learn the process of acquiring external resources through vendors and the legal requirements associated with contracts. Students will have an opportunity to study best practices regarding contract management and purchasing within a project management environment. Prerequisite: PJM310. Recommended Prior Course: PJM380.

Credits: 3

In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine information systems for operations management. They investigate analytical frameworks and methods that can be used to evaluate information systems, determine information system requirements, and plan implementation strategies to establish information systems. Topics include databases, data management, ethics, security, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other information technology content.

Credits: 3

In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine quality management systems. Employers widely seek quality management skills because they are known to advance business processes and performance improvements. You will explore the purpose of quality management and its value to organizations. You undertake continuous improvement endeavors in organizations, and identify its pros and cons, along with quality management philosophies, such as Six Sigma, Toyota Production System, Theory of Constraints, Total Quality Management, Agile Manufacturing, and Business Process Reengineering. The course follows the Body of Knowledge (BOK) for the Quality Process Analyst published by the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Credits: 3

In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine the design, development, implementation, and management of inventory management and production planning systems. In inventory management, you will focus on the main methods of inventory planning and control. In production planning, you will focus on master production scheduling, aggregate planning, material requirements planning, capacity and inventory planning, and production control. In this course, you will have the opportunity to assess fundamental issues in inventory management as well as production planning, to develop modeling and analytical skills. You will learn ways to formulate, analyze, and solve mathematical models that represent real-world problems as they relate to inventory planning and control as well as production planning.

Credits: 3

In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine current logistics and distribution practices used in supply chain management. You will also examine manufacturing and supply-chain-information systems, tools, and techniques utilized for effective decision-making. They will also learn about import/export, transportation types, and international dimensions, as well as technology. You should be able to identify the significant components of logistics management and the dynamics of what is considered best practice in logistics management. In this course, you will focus on the complexities associated with the integrated flow of raw materials, in-process goods, finished goods, and information from point-of-origin through the production process to the end consumer.

Credits: 3

Important element in Supply Chain Management is to have timely access to trends and metrics across key performance indicators, while recent advances in information and communication technologies have contributed to the rapid increase of data-driven decision making. In this course, you will have the opportunity to examine probability and decision analysis to ensure that they understand how uncertainty can be modeled in supply chain management. You will also use statistics and regression and apply optimization modeling to become familiar with essential analytics modeling tools and techniques that support the process of decision-making.

Credits: 3

This capstone course integrates the process, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory management material covered in the preceding operations management courses. You will be required to demonstrate their understanding of the operations management discipline by applying the key concepts and techniques that they have mastered in a comprehensive report on a single organization and while successfully navigating through a simulated organization. Operational excellence principles related to management activities are also explored and applied.

Credits: 3