All organizations need to acquire goods and services for use, and many acquire them for resale. The many purchasing principles that have been developed to assist firms in deploying their resources effectively will be studied in this course. The perspective of this course is that organizational and customer needs satisfaction serve as the motivational factor underlying the processes. Credit: 3 semester hours.

Analysis of logistic and transport services. Contemporary issues in: customer service; distribution operations; purchasing; warehousing location, design, and operation; carrier selection; transportation costing and negotiation. Credit: 3 semester hours.

Overview of supply chain management from and international perspective. Includes international logistics, global sourcing, customer issues and facility location. Credit: 3 semester hours.

On-the-job employment related to the discipline of supply chain management. Graded pass/fail. Credit: 3 semester hours.

Planning and control systems for product and service flows in the supply chain. Extended ERP-the management of inter- enterprise business processes like Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management as well as analytical applications. Integration of management, sales, marketing, finance, operations, e-business technology to create a true customer-focused strategy in Business-to Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) markets. Prerequisites or co-requisites: SCM 452, senior standing. Credit: 3 semester hours.