TLM 415 Supply Chain Management and Technologies

5 credits

This course acquaints students with the global supply chain, with an emphasis on supply sources, distribution, production planning, information systems, customer service, inventory management, warehouse management, supply chain relationships and challenges facing managers today. Students completing the course will be able to understand supply chain management concepts and strategies that help firms become more responsive in today’s changing global markets and provide a key source of competitive advantage. They will learn strategies for outsourcing, distribution, production planning, customer service, inventory management, warehouse management, and the use of 3PL and 4PL providers in the supply chain. In addition, the class acquaints students to currently applicable technologies and how firms gain competitive advantages by embracing and adapting RFID, bar coding, sorting, picking, and track and trace technologies into their supply chains. Uses examples from retail, pharmaceutical, defense, manufacturing, and logistics industries.

Prerequisites: TLM 301 and admission to the BASTLSCM program

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Apply supply chain management concepts and strategies
Describe warehouse management, materials handling and packaging issues
Integrate logistics management with quality customer service
Utilize strategic service response logistics and reverse logistics
Compare and contrast domestic and international transportation costs, benefits, and processes
Apply management and production scheduling to the supply chain
Identify future challenges in supply chain management and apply critical thought and analysis to propose potential solutions

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

demonstrate mastery of the tools, techniques, and technologies associated with the management of goods movement, inventory maintenance, fleet management, commercial vehicle procurement and disposal, and/or production management
describe integrated management components of inter-organizational relationships in the supply chain, including vendor selection, bidding and negotiation processes, partnering and performance measurement
communicate effectively, orally and in writing, to demonstrate a wide-ranging technical knowledge of transportation, logistics, and supply chain management

Total Hours: 50 Lecture Hours: 50