Global Supply Chain Management BS
Program Purpose
The supply chain consists of all the processes which lead to the production of goods and services; including supplier and distribution channels. Supply Chain managers optimize processes so that the right amount of the right goods and services are delivered to customers at the right time. Effective managers must coordinate the links of the supply chain to maintain quality and customer satisfaction, while at the same time controlling costs.
Students considering a career in supply chain management should have the ability to holistically consider multiple processes, work well with people, have good analytical skills, and be detail oriented. They must also be able to work in teams and have effective communication skills.
The coursework for this major prepares students for positions in purchasing and supply management, inventory management, logistics/transportation management, and operations management. Career paths also lead to executive-level positions such as chief supply chain officer, chief purchasing officer, chief logistics officer, and chief operations officer. Since many supply chains are becoming global, there are particularly good opportunities for individuals with international exposure or interest in working for multinational firms.
Course Structure
Students who graduate in the Global Supply Chain major are required to take the following courses.
GSCM 201, Introduction to Supply Chain Management - How firms work with other suppliers, often foreign firms, to manufacture and deliver products to customers. Topics include supply chain strategy, sourcing, supplier management, logistics, and quality management.
GSCM 211, Introduction to Global Supply Chain - The emerging rules of a global marketplace and their influence on key supply chain activities and processes.
GSCM 401, Operations Management: Managing and designing processes and people during production.
GSCM 402, Quality Management: Concepts of quality management, strategic issues, philosophies, and tools such as Six Sigma and SQC used to control quality.
GSCM 403, Purchasing and Supply Management: Focuses on upstream supply chain of supplier selection, management, and development. Negotiation, costing, product development, and commodity analysis.
GSCM 404, Supply Chain Logistics: Integration of materials management (inbound transportation), physical distribution (outbound transportation), inventory, warehousing facility location, customer service, packaging, and materials handling.
GSCM 429, Global Supply Chain Strategy: Integrative and creative problem solving in designing and managing cohesive value-added conversion/transformation systems in a global environment.
Students will also need to complete one Analytics Course and two Global Supply Chain Electives from the following:
Analytics Courses (complete one):
GSCM 412, Operations Analytics: Methods and tools necessary for analyzing and solving problems associated with global supply chain management.
MSB 325, Introductory Business Analytics: Fundamental principles and skills for data preparation, data visualization, and regression analysis using analytics software.
Global Supply Chain Electives (complete two):
GSCM 411, Global Business Negotiations: Developing an effective negotiation framework for cross-national/cultural negotiation techniques relative to business and other life situations.
GSCM 414, Introduction to Sustainable Business: Exploring the role of business in environmental, corporate, and social sustainability.
GSCM 419, Services Management: Management principles and characteristics of service industries and service aspects of supply chains: sources of strategic advantage; process analysis and tools; quality.
GSCM 585 - Introduction to Scholarly Research: Introduction to theory and methods that are foundational to scholarly research in global supply chain management.
Students will also need to complete one additional 3-credit BYU Marriott elective from the approved elective list.
Learning Outcomes
Students in Global Supply Chain Management develop skills and competencies in the following areas:
Supply Chain Skills- Students will be able to use commonly accepted frameworks and tools to analyze supply chain situations.
- Students will be able to evaluate opportunities for process improvement, efficiency improvement, effectiveness improvement and integration
- Students will be able to create rationale solutions for identified opportunities.
- Students will understand inventory management principles, operations management principles, supplier management principles, TQM principles, transportation management principles, service-operation-management principles, and warehousing principles.
- Students will be able to create strategies that lead to productive relationships, effective communication and efficient processes to integrate supply chain members and customers.
Students will be able to apply understanding of the global implications of supply chain management.
- Students will be able to interrogate data, manipulate data, and create meaning through commonly used analytical tools
- Students will be able to describe the ethical and professional standards expected among supply chain management professionals.
- Students will be able to write and present in a clear, concise and comprehensive manner
- Students will be familiar with the different types of information systems used in the supply chain and understand basic information technology integration.