Supply Chain Management Stream

Supply Chain Management Stream Requirements

• OMIS 6560 3.00 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
  This course is about how to make decisions that lead to the better design and management of supply chains. This often involves changing the network of relationships between suppliers and customers and other stakeholders as they design, contract, order, plan and coordinate goods and services together. This course covers essential quantitative supply chain management models, supportive information and ecommerce technologies, environmentally and socially responsible practices and customer-supplier relationship management. Prerequisites: OMIS 5110 1.5, OMIS 5120 1.5 and OMIS 5210 1.5
• OMIS 6500 3.00 GLOBAL OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

  Plant location, supplier selection and product and process development are no longer solely national issues. Hence, the first part of this course, we give an overview of global operations, including global supply chain management, network design for global operations and global entry strategies. This deals with how the use of information technology supports the management of global operations. Topics include value chain management, the concept of marketspace, business-to-business e-commerce, enterprise resource planning, and the effect of IT on R&D and collaboration, all in an international context.

  Prerequisites: SB/OMIS 5120 1.50 and SB/OMIS 5210 1.50, or permission of the instructor

• OMIS 6350 3.00 ADVANCED SPREADSHEET MODELLING & PROGRAMMING FOR BUSINESS
  This course enables the design, development, and implementation of integrated business analysis systems by combining the extended functionality of spreadsheets with the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language. The course demonstrates the power of combining the advanced analysis and modelling techniques of spreadsheets and VBA through applications to several practical problems from disparate business functions. Prerequisites: SB/OMIS 5110.015 and SB/OMIS 5120.015 or permission of the instructor.

Plus 3.00 credits of quantitative electives listed in the Courses section of the Master of Business Analytics program details page.