Naveen Jindal School of Management
Master of Science in Supply Chain Management
36 semester credit hours minimum
Faculty
Professors: Alain Bensoussan, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Milind Dawande, Dorothée Honhon, Bin Hu, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Syam Menon, Özalp Özer, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke
Associate Professor: Anyan Qi, Serdar Simsek, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Yining Wang, Zhe (James) Zhang
Assistant Professors: Mingliu Chen, Soraya Fatehi, Andrew Frazelle, Heeseung Lee, Zixuan Meng, Neda Miraeian, Ignacio Rios Uribe, Anavir Shermon, Ashwin Venkataraman, Guihua Wang, Mengxin Wang
Professor Emeritus: John J. Wiorkowski
Clinical Professors: Sonia Leach, Divakar Rajamani, Kannan Ramanathan, Prakash Shrivastava
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield
Clinical Assistant Professor: Jason Parker
Professor of Instruction: Luell (Lou) Thompson
Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Sarmann Kennedyd, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Tristan Whalen, Lidong Wu
Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Rasoul Ramezani
Professor-of-Practice: Hien Thu Nguyen, David Parks, Rajiv Shah
Associate Professor of Practice: Paul Nichols
Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi, Timothy Stephens
Degree Requirements
The Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM) is a minimum 36 semester credit hours 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 the 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.
To apply for this degree program, an undergraduate degree is required (all majors are considered). Students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA) in both core courses and in all graduate courses taken in the degree program, excluding program prerequisites to qualify for the MS degree.
Prerequisites
Students pursuing the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management degree program are required to complete one semester credit hour of MAS 6102 Professional Development course (except executive education students). In addition, knowledge of calculus is required and students who have not completed an undergraduate calculus course may satisfy the prerequisite by completing OPRE 6303 Quantitative Foundations of Business. Degree credit is not earned for program prerequisites, however, the grade achieved in prerequisites will count toward the student's grade-point average (GPA). All program prerequisites must be satisfied within the first semester of graduate study as a degree-seeking student.
Course Requirements
Core Courses: 18 semester credit hours
OPRE 6301 Statistics and Data Analysis
or OPRE 6359 Advanced Statistics for Data Science
OPRE 6302 Operations Management
OPRE 6366 Global Supply Chain Management
OPRE 6370 Global Logistics and Transportation
OPRE 6371 Purchasing, Sourcing and Contract Management
And choose one course from the following courses:
ACCT 6305 Accounting for Managers
FIN 6301 Financial Management1
Elective Courses: 18 semester credit hours
Students may choose any master's level course with the OPRE prefix, excluding OPRE core courses, or any course listed below. As part of the 18 semester credit hours of elective courses, students may substitute up to six semester credit hours of master's-level courses from any unrestricted course/prefix or catalog year offered within JSOM.
OPRE 6009 Supply Chain Management Internship2 (required elective)
OPRE 6304 Operations Analytics
OPRE 6305 Business Analytics with R
OPRE 6324 (MIS 6374 or HMGT 6374) Internet of Things
OPRE 6325 Healthcare Operations Management
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6334 Advanced Business Analytics with SAS
OPRE 6335 Risk and Decision Analysis
OPRE 6340 Flexible Manufacturing Strategies
OPRE 6341 Retail Operations
OPRE 6343 (BUAN 6341 and MIS 6341) Applied Machine Learning
OPRE 6354 Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Six Sigma and Beyond
or OPRE 6364 Lean Six Sigma
OPRE 6355 Deal Making Strategies
OPRE 6359 Advanced Statistics for Data Science
OPRE 6362 Project Management in Engineering and Operations
OPRE 6367 Capstone Projects in Supply Chain Management
OPRE 6368 Industrial Applications in Supply Chains
OPRE 6369 Supply Chain Software with SAP
or OPRE 6390 Intelligent Enterprise Systems with SAP
OPRE 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
OPRE 6382 Supply Chain Trade Compliance
OPRE 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
OPRE 6393 Database Foundations
OPRE 6394 Technology and New Product Development
OPRE 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
OPRE 6399 Business Analytics with SAS
OPRE 6V90 Individual Study in Operations Management
OPRE 6V98 Supply Chain Management Internship
OPRE 6V99 Special Topics in Operations Research
Supply Chain Management Tracks
The MS SCM degree program offers students with opportunities to focus in a specific track or combination (optional) to obtain an in-depth knowledge in a specific business area depending on their interests.
The Analytics track is recommended for students interested in managing and analyzing large-scale data and developing organizational strategies.
OPRE 6304 Operations Analytics
OPRE 6332 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 6398 Prescriptive Analytics
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 6382 Supply Chain Trade Compliance
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 6389 Managing Energy: Risk, Investment, Technology (MERIT)
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 6378 Supply Chain Strategy
OPRE 6379 Product Lifecycle Management
Certificate Options
Students in the Supply Chain Management degree have the option to pursue a graduate certificate as part of their course of study. Please use the following links to view requirements for the graduate certificates below:
- Business Intelligence and Data Mining
- Applied Machine Learning
1. Executive Education students may take FIN 6301 course as an elective with prior approval of the program director.
2. Students may use OPRE 6009 only for their first internship and any additional internship must be completed as OPRE 6V98 (3 semester credit hours maximum). Students may use OPRE 6V98 or OPRE 6367 to fulfill the internship requirement. Students are no longer eligible to enroll in OPRE 6009 if they have already completed OPRE 6V98 or OPRE 6367.