Program Guide
Curriculum Requirements
Expected Outcome
Transportation/Supply
Chain Management Faculty
Application Procedures
Mailing Information
Program Guide
Welcome to the Certificate
Program in Transportation/Supply Chain Management in the School of Business
and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University. We are the only
public for-year university in the state offering such a program and one that
is unique nationally. This program empowers professionals to integrate
suppliers, supply management, transportation or logistics, and operations to
better serve their customers with the appropriate goods and services.
Professionals enrolled in the
Certificate Program are prepared to enhance their career opportunities and
options in ways that are both economically rewarding and personally
satisfying. The program has been designed to provide and add significant
value to its participants as they continue regular employment, and enhance
their prospects. Graduates may become certified in transport and logistics
through the American Society of transportation and Logistics, and in supply
management through the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).
The Transportation and Supply
Chain Management graduates are prepared to accept responsibility in supply
chain management purchasing, transportation or traffic management,
warehousing, inventory management, and global supply chain management. The
Transportation/Logistics Management students will find employment
opportunities in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, insurance, food
processing, hospitably, retailing, government regulatory and transportation
agencies as well as in the service sectors
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Curriculum Requirements
Qualified professionals or other
graduates seeking certificate in Transportation and Supply Chain Management
must earn fifteen (15) graduate level credit hours. These courses include:
TRAN–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.
TRAN–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.
TRAN–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.
TRAN–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.
TRAN–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.
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Expected Outcome
Graduates of the certificate
program offered by NC A&T, will have a strategic view of company’s supply
management function. Graduates will be prepared to bring to their employers
knowledge of industry best practices and to take major roles and responsibilities
for efficient and effective use of supply chain management to establish or
maintain a competitive advantage. Graduates of the program should develop
expertise in SCM, e-Commerce, TQM, strategic partnerships, sourcing
decisions, JIT manufacturing, RFIS, negotiation, inventory management, and a
host of other supply management concepts.
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Transportation/Supply
Chain Management Faculty
Addus,
Abdussalam: Associate Professor of
Transportation; Ph.D. Penn State
University
Benjamin,
Julian: Professor of Economics; Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo
Cho, Joong-Kun
(Jay): Assistant Professor of
Transportation and Supply Chain Management; Ph.D. University of Arkansas
Dobie, Kathryn: UPS Chair, Professor of Transportation and Supply Chain
Management; Ph.D. University of Memphis
Glisson, Milton: Professor of Marketing; Ph.D. The American University
Obeng, Kofi: Professor of Transportation; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Sink, Harry: Associate Professor of Transportation and Supply Chain
Management, Ph.D. University of
Tennessee
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Application Procedures
The Certificate Program in
Transportation and Supply Chain Management is geared to meet the needs of current
professionals. Courses are at the graduate level. All professionals wishing
to obtain the certificate must enroll through an established process,
ascertaining their readiness for graduate courses. In addition to completing
the appropriate forms, applicants also need to submit a copy of their
undergraduate transcript(s) to the Graduate School.
Please direct all questions or
inquiries to:
Dr. Roger Gagnon
Gagnonr@ncat.edu
336-334-7656 ext. 6000
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Mailing
Information:
Department of Economics & Transportatin/Logistics
School of Business &
Economics
1601 E. Market Street
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: (336) 256-2277
Fax: (336) 334-7093
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