MBA/Supply Chain Management
The W. P. Carey MBA Program offers you various ways to combine your core MBA curriculum with courses in supply chain management. They include:
- Full-time MBA with a supply chain management specialization
- Full-time MBA with a supply chain financial management specialization
- Evening or Online MBA with an area of emphasis in supply chain management
MBA/Supply Chain Management
The supply chain management specialization offers students in their second year of the Full-time MBA Program an elective course sequence that creates information managers in procurement, operations and logistics. Supply chain management graduates are the new generals of the global marketplace. From raw materials to finished products, supply chain managers know how to control costs and increase quality while maximizing profits.
Curriculum topics include:
- Buyer, supplier relations
- Global supply chain issues
- Logistics design, management
- E-commerce
- Integrating demand/supply analysis
- Strategic supplier alliances
- Strategic design, development of systems
- Operations and supply
MBA/Supply Chain Financial Management
The supply chain financial management specialization for full-time MBA students is an integrated program that deals with advanced topics in corporate risk management and deriving efficiencies and effectiveness in a firm’s value chain. Its focus is on team leadership, globalization of the supply chain, financial management of risk and effective communication. You develop skills in quality of earnings analysis, valuation concepts, portfolio management, supply chain network analysis and hedging strategies.
MBA/SCM Area of Emphasis
The area of emphasis in supply chain management offers students in the MBA Evening and MBA Online programs the opportunity to combine the strengths of their MBA core curriculum with an in-depth set of courses offered by our top-ranked Department of Supply Chain Management.
Supply chain management integrates global information and processes across all functions, including supply management, operations and logistics. The ability to understand how the pieces integrate into the whole defines this area of emphasis, and thus it offers value to students who aspire to become leaders within the supply chain function as well as students who work in other functional areas within industries for which supply chain management has strategic importance.
