Developing an industry-focused supply chain management major and minor curriculum
Abstract
In the recent past, universities and colleges/schools of business have been challenged with maintaining and increasing student enrolment. Novel and up-to-date curriculum that meets the needs of the industry could help in addressing this issue. In this paper we elaborate on the development of an innovative undergraduate major and minor in supply chain and logistics management. The major effectively utilises existing resources of the colleges of business, open source software in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and data analytics software such as SAS and R. The course curriculum is benchmarked with peer institutions as well as the needs of the industry. The Regional Logistics Council certified the curriculum.
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Author's Biography
Sanjay Kumar is Richard E. Meier Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. He is also a visiting faculty at Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang, China. Sanjay’s research interests include risk management in supply chains, environment sustainability and behavioural operations management. Sanjay is current President of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute. He has consulting experience with many organisations and industries. Sanjay holds MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Dallas and MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Ceyhun Ozgur , CPIM is a professor of information and decision sciences in the College of Business at Valparaiso University. He has co-authored a textbook entitled Introduction to Management Science with Spreadsheets (McGraw Hill). Among others, Ceyhun has published in Operations Management Research, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, Journal of Data Science, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Interfaces and OMEGA. He is a member of the Decision Sciences Institute and APICS. Ceyhun is an area editor for Operations Management Research and associate editor for Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.
Sanjeev Jha is an associate professor of information and decision sciences in the College of Business at Valparaiso University. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009 and was an assistant professor of decision sciences at the University of New Hampshire prior to coming to Valparaiso University in autumn 2015. Sanjeev teaches data analytics-related courses at Valparaiso University and his research interests are in the area of healthcare analytics.
Citation
Kumar, Sanjay, Ozgur, Ceyhun and Jha, Sanjeev (2020, September 1). Developing an industry-focused supply chain management major and minor curriculum. In the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Volume 3, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.69554/BAXW5719.
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