Online Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management (MS-SCM)
Supply Chain Management
Program Overview
Are you ready to elevate your career in supply chain management? Ranked #1 in the US (2024, Gartner), the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s online Master’s in Supply Chain Management offers a world-class education designed for aspiring professionals like you. This flexible and comprehensive program covers all critical aspects of the supply chain, including procurement, planning, manufacturing, distribution, and key enablers such as technology and international trade. With expert faculty guiding your learning experience, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to thrive in a competitive, globalized industry.
As part of the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI), this program aims to shape the practice of supply chain management by teaching students about the evolution of the supply chain both domestically and internationally.
Become a Leader in Supply Chain Management
The online MS-SCM program is specifically designed for mid-level professionals with 3 to 10 years of experience in supply chain management or related fields. This program is intended for individuals seeking to sharpen their leadership skills or accelerate their career advancement. With a practical, industry-centered curriculum, it provides the strategic expertise and operational know-how necessary to excel in the dynamic, global supply chain landscape.
What You Can Expect to Learn:
Supply Chain Concepts – Master supply chain management tools, such as data modeling and financial analysis, to deliver impactful results to a company.
Supply Chain Functions – Leverage knowledge of supply chain functions like planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics to support overall supply chain efficiencies.
Supply Chain Enablers – Employ critical levers like technology and international trade to benefit the supply chain.
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Featured Courses
This course defines the principles and practice of end-to-end integrated supply chain management with particular emphasis on how supply chains create organizational value. The course covers foundational concepts on integrating business activities through improved processes and relationships to achieve and maintain competitive advantage through supply chain management.
This course explores the impact that supply chain management has on the financial performance of the organization. Coverage includes the impact of supply chain management on financial statements, budgeting, allocation strategies and related concepts.
This course covers the concepts, methods and tools that are useful in understanding the management of a firm’s operations in manufacturing and service firms. This course covers systematic planning, design and operation of all processes required for the production and delivery of goods and services. Process improvement and operational excellence tools required to operate high quality operations are highlighted.
This course addresses strategic decision making related to the physical network design and operation of the supply chain, including the location and capacity of suppliers, plants and warehouses in a logistics network that delivers products and services to end customers. The content in this course will explore the tradeoffs inherent to physical network decision making with special emphasis on managing demand and lead time variability, matching capacity to demand, centralization and pooling of inventory and achieving a total value solution. This course will apply analytic methods learned in other courses to the problems of supply chain network design and strategic inventory positioning, in order to explore theoretical relationships and to provide students with decision making skills needed in practice.
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