Online MS-SCM academics
Explore the development process in its entirety and strengthen your management and AI toolkit. The unique approach of the W. P. Carey Online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (Online MS-SCM) program transforms your skillset and your career. Your journey begins with an online certificate of your choosing, unlocking the door to immediate career wins and credits you can transfer toward your master’s degree.
Curriculum
Increased competition from global competitors, the opening and closing of new markets, the need for sustainable business practices, the regulatory environment — any one of these examples of the complexity of the current economic environment is enough to make any business leader shudder.
How can support vendors, service providers, customer concerns, product safety, and profit margins connect in a way that gets your product to the right consumer? Through AI-enhanced simulations and case studies, you'll grow your confidence in using the same tools as industry professionals to improve supply chain performance.
To meet the world where it's going, the MS-SCM from Arizona State University educates future leaders to steer their network of providers — to develop and run supply networks that best benefit the consumer and the company.
John Fowler, Associate Dean of the W. P. Carey Master of Business,
Administration Motorola Professor in International Management,
NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management
Sample Online MS-SCM courses
Courses are delivered 100% online, with the opportunity to engage with faculty and your classmates, so you can share your ideas and learn from others' perspectives. In each class, you'll build key strengths that will help you advance your knowledge — and your career in supply chain management. Take a closer look at individual courses through ASU class search.
Planning, scheduling, and controlling of projects in R&D, manufacturing, construction, and services. Project selection, financial considerations, and resource management.
Applies the principles, philosophies, and processes of supply management to the purchasing management process on a global basis and to facilitate the continuous improvement of the purchasing management system.
Synthesizes learnings from previous courses and applies this learning to specific issues that have a major global logistics component.
Certificate options
Three unique pathways allow you to earn your supply chain master’s on your terms. Choose the W. P. Carey Certificate in Foundations of Supply Chain Management or the W. P. Carey Certificate in Procurement Management to complete course credit toward your degree before the master’s program even starts. Alternatively, you can earn an MITx MicroMasters® in supply chain management and learn from faculty from two of the world’s leading supply chain institutions.
Completion of one of these three certificate options is required to apply for the Online MS-SCM at W. P. Carey. Depending which path you choose, you will be granted 9 to 12 credit hours in the Online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program, fulfilling the requirements of SCM 502, SCM 541, SCM 532, and SCM 515. Credits are granted and transferred in upon admission into the W. P. Carey School. Feel free to contact our recruiting team with any questions.
Faculty
Faculty members in the highly ranked NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management conduct leading-edge supply chain management research that advances the field, and they bring this research into the classroom to advance the skills of our graduates.
We educate future managers who are prepared to add product value, increase quality, reduce costs and increase profits. They accomplish this by addressing the needs and performance of supplier relations, supplier selection, purchasing negotiations, operations, transportation, inventory, warehousing, benchmarking, third-party vendors, electronic commerce, recycling, supply chain electronic software and customer relations.