Department of Operations
The Operations Department is responsible for the Supply Chain Management major. Over the years, the Operations Department has maintained a tradition of excellence that continues to evolve as the dynamic field of operations management continues to advance.
Supply Chain ManagementMany of today’s most admired businesses—companies like FEDEX, Toyota, and Wal-Mart—dominate the competition using supply chains as competitive weapons. Supply chain management includes all the activities involved in planning, sourcing, making, and delivering goods and services between suppliers, manufacturers, intermediaries, and customers.
Its major areas of study revolve around products, information, and cash flows between supply chain partners as well as balancing supply and demand, managing supplier and customer relations, improving processes, fulfilling orders, developing logistics and transportation networks, and controlling returns.
Our curriculum not only provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully launch a career in supply chain management, but also prepares graduates for advancement in terms of promotion and responsibilities. While some students concentrate on supply chain management, many others combine it with their interests in finance, marketing, information technologies, entrepreneurship, accounting, and international business as part of a double major. In most of today’s fast-paced, complex, and increasingly global businesses, a fundamental understanding of supply chain management is often crucial to success.
Major Requirements
Junior and Senior Years- Required Courses (15 cr):
- BUS-P 320 (3 cr.) Supply Chain Management: Sourcing
P: Kelley admit, I-Core, Junior Standing - BUS-P 330 (3 cr.) Project Management
P: I-Core - BUS-P 421 (3 cr.) Supply Chain Management
P: Kelley admit, I-Core - BUS-P 429 (3 cr.) Operations Processes
P: Kelley admit, I-Core - BUS-P 431 (3 cr.) Supply Chain Management: Logistics and Distribution
P: Kelley admit, I-Core
- BUS-P 320 (3 cr.) Supply Chain Management: Sourcing
- Electives- Select two (6 cr):
- BUS-P 316 (3 cr.) Sustainable Operations
P: BUS-X 100 or 105, Sophomore Standing - BUS-P 355 (3 cr.) Topics in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Industry 4.0
P: BUS-X 100 or 105, Sophomore Standing - BUS-P 356 (3 cr.) Lean Six Sigma Analytics
P: I-Core & BUS-K 201 - BUS-P 455 (3 cr.) Topics in Operations and Supply Chain Management: Operations Transformation
P: I-Core - BUS-P 480 (3 cr.) Professional Practice in Operations Management (Internship for Credit)
P: Kelley admit, I-Core, 2.5 GPA, permission required - BUS-P 481 (3 cr.) Supply Chain Planning & Analytics
P: I-Core & BUS-K 303 - BUS-M 401 (3 cr.) International Marketing
- P: F371, M371, P371, Z371 (with a C or better in each) or F374, M374, P374, Z374 (with a C or better in each)
- BUS-M 402 (3 cr.) Marketing Channels
- P: ICORE
- BUS-Z 404 (3 cr.) Effective Negotiations
- P: (Business undergraduate and BUS-F371, M371, P371, Z371 with a C or better in each) or (Business undergraduate and BUS-F374, M374, P374, Z374 with a C or better in each)
- BUS-D 301 (3 cr) International Business Environment
- P: ECON-E 201 and ECON-E 202 and (Junior or Senior standing)
- BUS-A 325 (3 cr.) Cost and Performance Measurement for Decision Making
- PREREQUISITE: (BUS-A201 or A204) AND (A202 or A207) BOTH WITH C OR HIGHER AND (JUNIOR or SENIOR STANDING)
- BUS-F 305 (3 cr.) Intermediate Corporate Finance
- Prerequisite: (BUS-F371, M371, P371, Z371 with C or better in each) or (BUS-F374, M374, P374, Z374 with C or better in each), and Business undergraduate
- BUS-P 316 (3 cr.) Sustainable Operations
Updated 03/25
