Naveen Jindal School of Management
Master of Science in Supply Chain Management
36 semester credit hours minimum
Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali, Indranil R. Bardhan, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Daniel A. Cohen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Theodore E. Day, Gregory G. Dess, David L. Ford Jr., Umit G. Gurun, Ernan E. Haruvy, Varghese S. Jacob, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Shun-Chen Niu, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, John J. Wiorkowski, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Pamela Foster Brady, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, David Cordell, Tevfik Dalgic, Michael Deegan, Kutsal Dogan, Howard Dover, Greg Durham, Forney Fleming III, Randall S. Guttery, Charles Hazzard, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Gerald (Jerry) Hoag, Marilyn Kaplan, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John F. McCracken, Dennis McCuistion, Diane S. McNulty, Radha Mookerjee, Joseph Picken, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, David Ritchey, Arthur Selender, Rajiv Shah, Kenneth Smith, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
Visiting Clinical Professor: Kyle Edgington
Associate Professors: Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Xianjun Geng, J. Richard Harrison, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Lívia Markóczy, Syam Menon, Toyah Miller, Alp Muharremoglu, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Valery Polkovnichenko, Orlando C. Richard, Young U. Ryu, Gil Sadka, Jane Salk, Harpreet Singh, David J. Springate, Upender Subramanian, Kelsey D. Wei, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
Clinical Associate Professors: Sonia Leach, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Kelly Slaughter, James Szot, Mark Thouin, John McClain Watson
Assistant Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Emily Choi, Bernhard Ganglmair, Atanu Lahiri, Sheen Levine, Bin Li, Jun Li, Meng Li, Ningzhong Li, Xiaolin Li, Naim Bugra Ozel, Arzu Ozoguz, Anyan Qi, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Serdar Simsek, Gonca P. Soysal, Shaojie Tang, Christian Von-Drathen, Malcolm Wardlaw, Han (Victor) Xia, Steven Xiao, Shengqi Ye, Nir Yehuda, Jieying Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Xiaofei Zhao
Clinical Assistant Professors: Shawn Alborz, Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, John Gamino, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Kristen Lawson, Vance Lewis, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Dawn Owens, Parneet Pahwa, Anastasia V. Shcherbakova, Jeanne Sluder, Nassim Sohaee
Visiting Assistant Professor: Lale Guler
Senior Lecturers: Arthur M. Agulnek, Semiramis Amirpour, Frank Anderson, Anindita Bardhan, Daniel Bochsler, Tiffany A. Bortz, Richard Bowen, Monica E. Brussolo, George DeCourcy, Eugene (Gene) Deluke, Alexander Edsel, Amal El-Ashmawi, Carol Flannery, Mary Beth Goodrich, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Jackie Kimzey, Chris Linsteadt, Michele Lockhart, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Prithi Narasimhan, Madison Pedigo, Matt Polze, James Richards, Debra Richardson, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, David Spivey, Luell (Lou) Thompson, Amy L. Troutman, Jeremy Vickers, Robert Wright, Kathy Zolton, Hubert Zydorek
Degree Requirements
The Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM) is an STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degree program that explores the key issues associated with the design and management of industrial supply chains, including methods for improving supply chain operations by lowering costs and improving quality. The depth of our supply chain program uniquely prepares students to be the next generation of business leaders with skills and competencies necessary to perform across functions within an organization. Students gain business management knowledge and analytical decision-making skills (especially for complex systems) along with real-life experiences through industry projects.
The MS SCM program is designed for students with or without previous educational background in supply chain management. Students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in both core courses and in aggregate courses to qualify for the MS degree. Students can also obtain a dual MS SCM/MBA degree by successfully completing a total of 63 semester credit hours (if all prerequisites are met).
Prerequisites
Calculus is required as a graduate program prerequisite. Candidates who have not taken an equivalent course will need to complete OPRE 6303 with a grade of "B" or better to meet the calculus requirement.
Course Requirements
Business Core Courses: 9 semester credit hours
OPRE 6301 Quantitative Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Business
OPRE 6302 Operations Management
And choose one course from the following courses
ACCT 6305 Accounting for Managers
FIN 6301 Financial Management1
Supply Chain Management Core Courses: 9 semester credit hours
OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
OPRE 6370 Global Logistics and Transportation
OPRE 6371 Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
Supply Chain Management Elective Courses: 18 semester credit hours
OPRE 6V98 Supply Chain Management Internship (required elective)
OPRE 6325 Healthcare Operations Management
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6340 Flexible Manufacturing Strategies
OPRE 6341 Retail Operations
OPRE 6355 Deal Making Strategies
OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
OPRE 6363 Inventory Control
OPRE 6364 Lean Six Sigma
OPRE 6367 Capstone Projects in Supply Chain Management
OPRE 6368 Industrial Applications in Supply Chains
OPRE 6369 Supply Chain Software
OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Management
OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6387 Models of Energy Markets
OPRE 6388 Engineering Packaged Goods Distribution
OPRE 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
OPRE 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
OPRE 6393 Database Foundations
OPRE 6399 Business Analytics with SAS
Free Elective (optional): As part of the 18 semester credit hours of elective courses, students may choose an SCM international trip or any three semester credit hour graduate level course offered within JSOM as a free elective course.
Supply Chain Management Tracks
The MS SCM degree program also offers opportunities for students to focus in a specific track to obtain an in-depth knowledge by taking four courses from the tracks listed below.
The Analytics track is recommended for students interested in managing and analyzing large-scale data and developing organizational strategies.
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6367 Capstone Project in SCM
OPRE 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
OPRE 6V98 Internship in SCM
The Retail track is recommended for students interested in managing retail operations, understanding demand and pricing and customer relationships.
OPRE 6341 Retail Operations
OPRE 6355 Deal Making Strategies
OPRE 6367 Capstone Project in SCM
OPRE 6377 Demand and Revenue Management
OPRE 6V98 Internship in SCM
The Risk track is recommended for students interested in understanding uncertainty, decision making in risky environment and budgeting and scheduling projects.
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
OPRE 6367 Capstone Project in SCM
OPRE 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
OPRE 6V98 Internship in SCM
The Strategy track is recommended for students interested in business strategy, product development and quality.
OPRE 6340 Flexible Manufacturing Strategies
OPRE 6364 Lean Six Sigma
OPRE 6367 Capstone Project in SCM
OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6V98 Internship in SCM
1. Executive Education students may take FIN 6301 course as an elective with a prior approval of the program director.