Global Supply Chain Management Certificate

This course provides a foundation of the concepts, principles, and managerial issues of the operations function in manufacturing and service organizations. Emphasis is on the planning, scheduling, and controlling of operations, including the application of quantitative methods to the solution of strategic, tactical, and operational level problems.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Course offered in the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters

Quantitative methods for forecasting, scheduling, and production control in manufacturing and service systems. Use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. 

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisites: IMSE 4210 and IMSE 4230. Restricted to IMSE students or by Departmental consent.
• IMSE students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

An examination of the concepts, processes and institutions that are fundamental to an understanding of supply chain management in a global environment. 

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: N/A
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Application of predictive and agile project management methods and techniques for project breakdown, scheduling, resource allocation, and evaluation of project performance.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MANGMT 3000, MANGMT 3000H, MANGMT 3000HW, or MANGMT 3000W
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

International trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries giving rise to a world economy that is affected by global events. This course will focus on global trade management issues, procedures, requirements, and strategies. The implementation of international market strategy, global supply chains, and trade finance will also be explored. These topics will be examined by exploring trade factors that influence organizations and trade relations such as different cultural norms, government regulations, technology, resources, and logistics.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: N/A
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

This course examines the critical role of the procurement function within the organization. The objective is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the purchasing/sourcing function, key issues and developments in purchasing and supply management within the context of SCM, and to identify ways that purchasing can make a positive contribution to the competitiveness of the firm. Topics include an intro to the field/role in SCM; developing global sourcing strategies using commodity/channel/category management; make-or-buy decisions; supplier identification and selection; contract and pricing practices; negotiation; spend analytics including value analysis for services; contract performance monitoring; traditional verse collaborative supplier development; cross-functional relationship management, and ethics.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: MANGMT 4010
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

This course deals with decision support using spreadsheets, including what-if analysis; financial, statistical and time/date functions; graphical presentation of data; organizing, sorting, querying and extracting information from spreadsheet and external databases; cross-tabulation of data; data tables; use of analytical tools to recommend optimal solutions to business problems in areas such as human resources, marketing, finance. accounting, manufacturing, and logistics.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisites or Co-requisites: MANGMT 3300 or ACCTCY 2258
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

This course focuses on applying data analytic tools and techniques at various supply chain stages, specifically focusing on retailers. At the end of the course, the students will develop supply chain analytical skills for solving several marketing supply chain problems such as demand forecasting, inventory management, and sales and operations planning.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: STAT 2500 (or STAT 2200 and one of the following: STAT 1200, STAT 1300, or STAT 1400)
• Students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Modeling and analysis of structural and operational issues associated with material-flow system design including facility location, warehouse/inventory systems, and distribution/transportation systems.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisites: IMSE 4210 and IMSE 4280
• IMSE students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Modeling and analysis of supply chain network design and management issues including integration of production, inventory control, supplier selection, risk management and logistics network design.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: IMSE 4350
• IMSE students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Service systems contribute to more than 75% of US GDP and provide close to 80% employment. This course introduces students to service system engineering and management and will discuss models, concepts and solution methods important in the design, control, and operation of service systems. In addition, this course will provide students the ability to apply industrial engineering and operations research tools for analyzing service enterprises, including supply chain engineering, financial engineering and revenue management.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisite: IMSE 4210 or instructor's consent 
• IMSE students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

An overview of the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology for analyzing and improving processes. Requires completing a Six Sigma Green Belt project.

Course Details:

• 3 Credit Hours
• Pre-requisites: Grade of C or better in IMSE 2110 or IMSE 4110 or STAT 4710
• IMSE students should check with their advisor on when this course is offered.

Students must complete three credit hours of a supervised internship that consists of:

• A minimum of 120 hours on-the-job experience AND
• Supply Chain Management-related activities that can include:
  • Logistics
  • Operations
  • Transportation
  •  Purchasing/Sourcing
  •  Distribution/Sales
  •  Warehousing
  •  Materials Handling
  •  Import/Export Operations
  •  Inventory Management
  •  Production
  •  Information Technology (SCM-related)
  •  Supply Chain Analytics

Internship courses that we accept are:

• BUS_AD 4500: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - INTERNSHIP*
• IMSE 4910: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INTERNSHIP*
• MANGMT 4940: PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP*

*Offered in the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters.

Note: If a business student has already completed BUS_AD 4500 with an internship that does not meet the supply-chain requirement of this certificate program, that individual would be advised to register for 3 credit hours under MANGMT 4940 for an internship that would qualify. If you are not a student in the College of Business or Engineering, that student would be advised to enroll in MANGMT 4940.

Timeline:

The internship course must be taken at the same time as your internship. If you completed an internship but did not take an internship course simultaneously, it will not be approved for the certificate. 

MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER  FOR SUPPLY CHAIN INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES!

1. Please apply for the certificate by clicking the "Apply Now" button on this page. 

2. Once you declare that you are pursuing the certificate, you will receive a Follow-Up Questionnaire. This is required and you must complete the questionnaire to earn your certificate.

3. The questionnaire will require information regarding your internship and expected graduation date.

If you have not yet completed an internship course, please still complete the questionnaire. Once you obtain a supply chain internship at a later date, please make sure to send the offer letter, job description, and internship course information to mubusgscm@missouri.edu.

• The job description needs to include the specific supply chain job functions, the name of the company, and dates of the internship. The job description needs to be written by the company.  
• If you do not have an official offer letter, we accept an official email from the company/supervisor confirming that you were offered the internship. 
• List which internship course you completed or will be completing simultaneously. 

4. Internships will be evaluated and approved by the Program Director. Once a decision has been made, you will receive a follow-up email regarding your approval status for your internship. 

We encourage students to apply as soon as they decide to pursue the certificate program. Please submit the application no later than the cut-off date in the semester of your graduation:

• Spring - May 1
• Summer - July 31
• Fall - December 1