Achieve on your terms. Earn a graduate degree in global supply chain management—while continuing your career.
Domestic Applicants:
- Fall matriculation only. Application deadline July 1, 2013. Apply now.
International Applicants:
- Fall matriculation only. Application deadline June 3, 2013. Apply now.
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If your work involves purchasing, manufacturing, transportation, or consulting—take your career further with a Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management. Complete your degree in one to five years. With the ultimate flexibility of Kelley Direct you can advance your education around your schedule.
This 30-credit-hour graduate degree program offers the skills you need to be an effective manager who understands the business processes critical to the modern-day supply chain of information and material, and how to use technology to manage that flow.
The program starts with Kelley Connect Week on the Bloomington campus—an intense introduction to the program, faculty, and your fellow students. Upon graduation, you’ll receive a Master of Science from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, a degree that is respected and recognized everywhere.
Upon graduating, you will:
- Be prepared to make long- and short-range decisions influencing the overall success of a business.
- Understand how global supply chain processes contribute to overall business strategy, including long-term issues such as chain design and product service development, and short-term issues like order fulfillment and customer relationship management.
While in the MS in Global Supply Chain Management program, you can opt to add an MBA for a dual degree—adding general management to your skills portfolio in less time than it would take to pursue both degrees separately.
For more information about the MS in Global Supply Chain Management Program, please contact kdirect@indiana.edu or (877) 785-4713.
C520 Quantitative Analysis (3.00)
Video Introduction
In this course, we enhance the student’s statistical and mathematical modeling skills covering the following topics: (1) probabilistic decision making, (2) regression analysis, (3)forecasting (4) simulation with @RISK (5) optimization modeling with the EXCEL Solver, (6) making decisions when multiple objectives are involved, and (7) using neutral networks to improve forecasting. Applications from all major functional areas will be discussed.
C521 Managing Accounting Information for Decision-Making (3.00)
Video Introduction
Provides a user-oriented understanding of how accounting information should be managed to ensure its availability on a timely and relevant basis for decision making. The first part of the course reviews financial accounting and reporting while the second part of the course focuses on cost-benefit analysis for evaluating the potential value-added results from planning, organizing and controlling a firm’s accounting information. The use of cases, forum discussions and computer support is used extensively.
C540 Financial Management (3.00)
Video Introduction
Provides a working knowledge of the tools and analytical conventions used in the practice of corporate finance; establishes an understanding of the basic elements of financial theory to be used in application of analytical reasoning to business problems; and explores the interrelationship among corporate policies and decisions. Course work will include problem sets, study group preparation of executive summary memos and critiques, and use of PC spreadsheets to develop a planning model for a case focusing on funds requirement.
C570 Strategic Marketing Management (3.00)
Video Introduction
An introduction to the process of creating a market-driven organization. Specific topics include marketing strategy, market research and analysis, and the development of products and services, pricing, distribution and promotion. The course employs lecture, classroom discussion through threaded discussion forums, case analysis and field research projects.
C580 Operations Management (3.00)
Video Introduction
Surveys the management of operations in manufacturing and service firms. Diverse activities, such as determining the size and type of production process, purchasing the appropriate raw materials, planning and scheduling the flow of materials and the nature and content of inventories, assuring product quality, and deciding on the production hardware and how it gets used, comprise this function of the company. Managing operations well requires both strategic and tactical skills. The topics considered include process analysis, workforce issues, materials management, quality and productivity, technology, and strategic planning, together with relevant analytical techniques. The course makes considerable use of business cases. Most classes will be spent discussing the cases assigned. For each case, students will be asked to review actual company situations and apply technical and managerial skills to recommending courses of action. Most cases will be taken from manufacturing, but some will be service-oriented. Several of the cases will focus on international companies or issues.
E730 Supply Chain Overview- Kelley Connect Week (3.00)
The course provides an intensive overview of supply chain management including sourcing, manufacturing, distribution along with technologies and quantitative models used in managing supply chain. The course is delivered during the initial residency part of the program.
E731 Supply Chain Management - Sourcing (3.00)
This course concentrates on the important functions of working and managing the vendor base that supports the supply base. Students will learn about the design of cooperative arrangements between trading partners, as well as the new technologies like internet reverse auctions and e-hubs that are being employed for e-procurement.
E732 Supply Chain Management - Distribution and Inventory Management (3.00)
Supply-Chain management is a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers, manufactures, warehouses, and stores, so that merchandise is produced and distributed in the right quantities, to the right locations, and at the right time, in order to minimize system wide costs while satisfying service level requirements. This course will focus in two major areas related to supply-chain management: (1) the design of the distribution system, and (2) the planning and control system used to manage the supply chain material flow.
E733 Supply Chain Management - Enterprise Operations and Planning (3.00)
Video Introduction
This course gives the student an in-depth understanding of the technologies that businesses use to better manage their supply chain operations. Key technologies covered are Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Customer Relationship Management, Advanced Planning Systems, and Data Mining.
E735 Supply Chain Management: Project Management and Process Analysis (3.00)
This course addresses sustainable operations in three modules. The first module analyzes improvements on the environmental impact of current operations (eco-efficiency) within a firm: environmental take-back legislation, “green” certifications (e.g., LEED, ISO 14000), pollution prevention and waste reduction (including lean), 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle), environmental management systems, life cycle assessment, biofuels, green energy, and carbon footprinting. The second module addresses sustainability in the supply chain. Finally, the third module addresses closed-loop systems, which is the ultimate goal of sustainability: design for environment (DFE), leasing and servitization, recycling, reuse and remanufacturing.
Fall 2012 MS in Global Supply Chain Management
| Class Characteristics | |
| Class Size | 5 |
| Women | 40% |
| Average Age | 41 |
| Age Range | 26-53 |
| Avg. Years Work Experience | 15.1 |
| w/ Full-Time Work Experience | 100% |
| | |
| Academic Background | |
| Avg. GPA | 3.5 |
| UG GPA>3.5 | 67% |
| UG GPA 3.0-3.49 | 33% |
| UG GPA 2.5-2.99 | 0% |
| UG GPA<2.5 | 0% |
| with Graduate Degrees | 40% |
| | |
| GMAT | |
| Avg. GMAT | 543 |
| 700+ | 0% |
| 600-699 | 0% |
| 500-599 | 100% |
| | |
| Geography | |
| Midwest | 40% |
| Northeast/Mid-Atlantic | 20% |
| West/Southwest | 40% |
| South/US Possessions | 0% |
| International | 0% |
