This comprehensive program combines the career-oriented focus of a traditional MBA with the rigorous academic curriculum of a more advanced program, giving you the specific knowledge and skills you need to excel in the modern business world using Supply Chain Management (SCM) theories and concepts. The curriculum will help you master the specialized expertise which would be necessary for an executive career by allowing you to focus on Supply Chain Management specializations. It also incorporates leading-edge principles and practices of Supply Chain management, and is taught by renowned scholars in the field.
Core Curriculum
The MBA specializing in SCM is designed to be completed in fourteen months, in 16 contact hours of each modules, and requires a commitment to participate in all modules. There are ten core modules that must be completed, however, students with recent graduate module work in business may be able to waive some of those modules. This is the program for you if you are one of those busy people who want to study locally while learning globally!
Module 1: Organizational Behaviour .
A framework for thinking about the people side of the organization and aligning it to organizational development. This module considers the process of developing a highly motivated workforce to improve an organization's problem-solving skills, creativity, innovation, and its overall effectiveness within a changing and complex environment. Students will be provided with an understanding of individual and group dynamics, attitudes, cognitions, and behaviors, providing the essential core knowledge for day-to-day managerial activity..
Module 2: Human Resource Management: The module studies human resource practices and their impact on firms' competitive advantage and corporate structure. This nexus is specifically studied as it relates to costing human resources, environmental scanning, mergers and acquisitions, and the internationalization of HRM. The importance of human resource planning to strategic choice, staffing, compensating, and employee and labor relations are also addressed. The student is taught skills for maximizing firm objectives via appropriate human resource practices.
Module 3: Marketing Management
Analysis and management of customer satisfaction in goods and services markets by profit and nonprofit organizations. Buyer behavior, market segmentation and product positioning, product policy, pricing, distribution, sales force and advertising management, and market research in the contexts of strategy development, decision making, implementation, and control.
Module 4: Financial Management
This module introduces students to the basic decisions financial managers must confront when they try to create and manage the value of the firm. First, major concepts from finance are used to analyze the principles and measures of value creation. Then, the theory and practices related to capital budgeting, to the determination of the cost of funds and to the choice of a capital structure are successively examined
Module 5: Strategic management
Strategy Management concerns the process through which managers position their business or unit favorably against competitors, with customers, and in accordance with societal needs. The module takes a broad view of the external environment and matches it with the internal competencies of the firm. Provides an understanding to develop a strategy, devise action plans to realize the strategy, and continually develop capabilities to keep the organization viable and affordable.
Module 6: Basic Supply Chain Management
A comprehensive introduction to the fundamental supply chain management decisions and tradeoffs associated with the management of a firm's production and service activities. It is a study of how flexibility, responsiveness and lean production and service systems can be effectively designed, utilized and managed in order for them to compete successfully on the basis of different parameters.
Module 7: Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling
This module examine the integration of operations planning and scheduling for a supply chain. Major topics includes Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Capacity requirement planning (CRP), production strategy (making-to-stock, assemble-to-order, Build-to-Order, etc.), demand management master scheduling, e-procurement; capacity management; inventory management; and shop floor control. Hands-on computer exercises (using ERP) are included.
Module 8: Logistics and Supply Chains
The module will present and review the major elements of Logistics and Supply Chain, its characteristics and its importance as a factor of cost efficiency and a source of competitive strength for the firm. In an international business and global context, the module will encompass three major themes : the organization of warehouse, production and distribution into a common system. It will also address the linkage and management of separate, often independent production, processing and distribution organizations into a single and efficient integrated unit.
Module 9: Supply Chain Technology
Examines the theory and practice of recent Supply Chain technology. Major topics include Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), B2B e-commerce, network and telecommunication infrastructure for SCM, Third Party Logistics (3PL), Vendor managed Inventory (VMI), Outsourcing and data warehouse applications in SCM. Hands-on exercises in an ERP and MRP system may be included.
Module 10: Business Research, & Decision Making
Students will put to use all of the acquired skills obtained through their graduate studies. Extensive business research, written reports, and oral presentations will be required in the development of strategies, decision making in a case study environment, and the ability to make rapid and intelligent decisions in an increasingly complex and changing world. The major focus would be on research method and research reporting.
