Supply Chain Management Graduate Certificate

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the active management of supply chain activities to maximize customer value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It represents a conscious effort by supply chain firms to develop and run supply chains in the most effective and efficient ways possible. Supply chain activities cover everything from product development, sourcing, production, logistics, and the information systems needed to coordinate these activities.

Upon completion of the Supply Chain Management Graduate Certificate Program, students will be able to:

1. Successfully compete for positions within the supply management field.
2. Explain and analyze the components involved, and processes necessary for, successful strategic logistics management (technology, distribution, transportation, and warehouse management)
3. Evaluate and implement necessary strategies for domestic and global logistics management with respect to cultural and performance-related interactions
4. Identify the primary components involved in evaluating businesses from a risk perspective and provide a strategic analysis/recommendation for sourcing a function or business activity with an outside organization
5. Determine and articulate the quality management elements that transform a supply chain system into a sustained value chain operation.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of high ethical standards and the application of those standards in real life supply chain management situations consistent with the Christian humanistic philosophy of St. Francis de Sales.