Bachelor of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management Concentration

The major goal of the professional undergraduate business education in the School of Business Administration is to prepare students with an educational foundation for effective and responsible leadership. The undergraduate program’s goal is to graduate persons who will be able to absorb and use an ever-growing body of knowledge and changing technology and to serve humanity in an ethical manner.

Three-Part Curriculum

The undergraduate program has a three-part curriculum. The first is the foundations curriculum, where students learn written literacy, mathematical competency, and critical reasoning. The second part is the common-body-of-knowledge, consisting of business courses required of all business graduates. The third section is specialization, where students can then pursue Supply Chain Management courses.

SCM Concentration

The SCM concentration in the Bachelors in Business Administration requires completion of twelve units. Required courses are Supply Management, Strategic Cost Management, and Supply Chain Management. The SCM faculty strongly recommend students pursuing the concentration also take Negotiation as an elective. In these courses you will learn about SCM topics such as: buyer-supplier relationships, transportation, warehousing, cross-functional teams, quality, price and cost analysis, activity-based costing, methods of compensation, total cost of ownership, development of requirements, acquisition of services and equipment, outsourcing, global sourcing, post award activities, supplier development, ethics, and legal issues.

REQUIRED COURSES:

BSCM 300 Supply Management
BSCM 302 Supply Chain Management
BSCM 303 Strategic Cost Management

ELECTIVE COURSES:

BUSN 377 Negotiation (Recommended)
BSCM 494 Special Topics*

*No more than three units of Special Topics may be used as part of the concentration requirements. Use of Special Topics in the concentration is subject to approval of the School of Business Administration Undergraduate Programs Center.