Supply chain management (SCM) includes all the activities that must take place to get the right products and services into the right customer’s hands in the right quantity at the right time—from raw material extraction to consumer purchase.

The topics that SCM covers are diverse and include: procurement, order fulfillment, inventory management, supplier relationship management, product development and commercialization, returns management, physical distribution and shipping, warehousing, and outsourcing. With the depth and breadth of issues that it encompasses, industries that use SCM tools and approaches include: transportation, hospitals, government organizations, construction, processing, social services, electronics, facility design, manufacturing, and warehousing.
Majors in Supply Chain Management will be able to:

• Understand the technical content and theory of supply chain management systems.

• Develop the ability to quantitatively model typical supply chain problems.

• Understand principles of acquisition, transportation, and delivery of supply chain content.

• Learn computer systems available to support management and coordination of supply chains.

• Develop the ability to effectively communicate within organizations.

• Understand value systems, ethics, and sustainability.