Transportation and Supply Chain Management Course Descriptions
TSCM–701: Strategic Logistics Management
This course is designed to introduce students to the critical role of logistics in the achievement of strategic objectives. This approach involves all activities associated with moving raw materials, inventory, and finished goods from the point of origin to the point of use or consumption. The course addresses logistics strategy, planning, customer service goals, transportation fundamentals and decision-making, transportation strategy, inventory and location strategies, organization and control.
TSCM–720: Analysis and Design of Supply Chain Systems
This logistics modeling course deals with modeling logistics forecasts to facilitate supply chain management, mode selection, distribution planning, facility location, network design and optimization, and routing and scheduling. Software will be used extensively to model logistics and supply chain applications.
TSCM–725: Purchasing Materials Management
This course focuses on purchasing as the integration of long-term materials planning with corporate strategic planning. It focuses on the increasingly strategic role of the purchasing professional in business organizations. Areas receiving special attention include collaborative participation in the identification and procurement of key material requirements, determination and application of supplier qualification and selection activities, implementation of supplier development programs, relationship building programs, and participation in supply chain development decisions.
TSCM–727: Global Supply Chain Management
This course addresses issues in global supply chain management. Some topics addressed are international sourcing, evaluating international suppliers, outsourcing, financial management issues, relationship management, information management, and selecting international carriers. The course relies on cases to understand and solve problems in global supply chain management.
TSCM–730: Transportation Planning
This course addresses the transportation planning process and related activities. Topics of special focus are modal classifications, data requirements, transportation demand analysis, and methods of evaluation (GIS, cost-benefit analysis, internal rate of return, payback period, etc). Others are multiple criteria evaluation method, post-project evaluation, finance, transportation demand management, and issues in intelligent transportation systems.
