Survey of supply chain management, including defining the scope of service, procurement, and purchasing and materiel management. Business concepts include return on investment, value chain principles, contracts, and legal issues, and operations management.

Examine transportation and distribution concerns, including production scheduling, third-party logistics, calculating costs of services, warehousing, materiel management, analyzing the value of services, staffing and supervision, and technology.

Explore procurement management and contract administration, including procurement policies and procedures, supplier selection, cost analysis, contract negotiation, strategic sourcing, bidding and requests for proposals, and overall project management.

Capstone experience focusing on the application of industry best practices. Topics include aligning supply chain management operations with business practices. 

Prerequisites: two of the following courses: BUSCS 310, BUSCS 311, or BUSCS 312.