Logistics , Transportation, and Supply Chain Program

200 Undergraduate Majors30-35 MBA students in typical 4 course concentration in supply chainPhD Program—10 Students

Employment Opportunities

• LMI• Manugistics• Lexmark• i2• Pepsi• U.S. Dept. of Defense• American Airlines• Booz Allen Hamilton

• Verizon• AT Kearney• Intel• Union Pacfic• Owens Corning• St. Onge• P&G• USCO Logistics

• Supply chain excellence is a pre-requisite for corporate profitability • Fundamental shift to a technology-driven, real-time netcentric supply chain model.

• Objective: provide students with expertise in the business logic and tools of the netcentric real-time supply chain 

 

 

Objective:

Provide students with hands-on experience with foundation ERP systems and with Advanced Planning and Optimization systems

Components:• demand planning• inventory management• manufacturing planning• distribution management• customer service activities  

• Provide students with hands-on experience with strategic planning supply chain tools. 

•Supply chain network design—• Number/location of distribution centers? • Number/location of suppliers • Points of production and assembly

 

Lab-based student experiences

•Architecture and computer software designs

•Prototypes

•Global supply chain simulations:

- 24/7 world of a supply chain executive in a global environment

- Replication of procurement, production, distribution, and marketing decisions

- Bottom line balance sheets and incomestatements

Logistics/Supply Chain Courses

• BUSI 671 Supply Chain Management• BULM 730 Transportation Management• BULM 732 Logistics Management• BULM 733 International Logistics and

Transportation Management• BULM 742 Managing Technology in the Supply

Chain• BULM 744 Managing the Real Time Supply Chain• BULM 758 Extending Advanced Supply Chain

Planning Across the Enterprise

Core Course

• BUSI 671 Supply Chain Logistics and

Operations Management– Facility Location– Value of Information in the Supply Chain– Inventory Models– Supply Chain Information Systems

• Shared with the DIT department

Functional Electives

• BULM 732 Logistics Management– Complements BMGT 671 but no prerequisites– Spring in Baltimore– Weekend Format– Prof. Martin Dresner– Summer in DC– Weekend Format– Prof. Bill DeWitt

• BULM 758 Week-long Study Abroad Trips– Last summer in Port of Rotterdam (this summer TBA)

Technology Electives• BULM 742 Managing Technology in the Supply

Chain– Fall in College Park (Supply Chain Teaching Lab) and Spring in Shady

Grove– Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning– Weekend Format– Prof. Thomas Corsi and Prof. Phil Evers

• BULM 758 Extending Advanced Supply Chain Planning Across the Enterprise

– Spring in Shady Grove– Oracle Demand Planning/Inventory Optimization and SAP Advanced

Planning and Optimization modules– Weekend Format– Prerequisite: BULM 742– Prof. Thomas Corsi and Prof. Phil Evers

Strategic Elective

• BULM 744 Managing the Real-Time

Supply Chain– Spring in DC

– Weekend Format

– Technology Architecture

– Supply Chain Simulation Gaming Experience

– Prof. Thomas Corsi and Prof. Sandy Boyson

What Would You Be Doing?

• Consulting Firm– Optimize supply chain networks

– Recommend supply chain software

– Plan warehouse layouts

– Supply chain re-engineering

• Manufacturing/Service Firm– Same as above

– Plan production, purchasing, manage supplier relations

– Yield Management