With increasing competition around the globe, supply chain management is both a challenge and an opportunity for companies.

This is a survey course in Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) that focuses on design, planning, coordination, and improvement of operations and supply chain management. The key objectives of the course are to help students think critically about the ways in which operational and supply chain concepts are fundamental to the overall functioning of the business and to provide an operations “vocabulary” for students to carry forward into the rest of their studies and beyond. During the course linkages between operations and other business functions (particularly, finance, accounting, marketing, and information technology) will be stressed.