WSU Graduate Courses - Management Science/MS

MS 700 GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Managers must think, plan, and act with reference to international customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners. To design better products and deliver them at lower cost than their competitors, strategic managers are analyzing global issues.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 780.

MS 732 DEMAND MGMT IN SUP CHAIN (Credits: 4)

Explores the inter-dependency of information flow and material flow in goods-producing environments. Topics include forecasting, order quantity calculation for both independent and dependent demand, and production planning, scheduling, and distribution through the supply chain.

MS 755 ADV QUALITY MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Advanced study of quality management philosophy and techniques, including coverage of ISO 9000 quality standards.

PREREQUISITE: MS 780.

MS 770 SELECTED TOPICS IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (Credits: 4)

Seminar on one of the areas of management science (i.e., operations research, statistical analysis, and logistics). Topics vary.

PREREQUISITE: VARIES (SEE CLASS SCHEDULE).

MS 771 WORLD CLASS STRATEGIES (Credits: 4)

A strategic perspective for operations is developed, providing a linkage with marketing and other functions. Product profiling is introduced for testing the fit between market characteristics and the company's operations processes and infrastructure.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 780.

MS 781 SPECIAL STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (Credits: 1 TO 4)

Intensive reading or research in a selected field of management science. Individualized instruction with varying topics.

MS 786 ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Explores advanced topics of supply chain management, including the strategic role of the supply chain, key drivers of supply chain performance, and analytical tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. Cases and in-class exercises.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 780.

MS 788 BASICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Explores the fundamentals of supply chain management, including the strategic role of the supply chain, key drivers of supply chain performance, and analytical tools and techniques for supply chain analysis.

MS 790 DEMAND MANAGEMENT AND FORECASTING (Credits: 4)

Forecasting has consistently been a critical organizational capability for both strategic and tactical business planning. The role of forecasting has become important as competitive market pressures create the need for improved forecast accuracy.

MS 791 BENCHMARKING AND PERFORMANCE METRICS (Credits: 4)

This course focuses on the selection, use and evaluation of appropriate metrics for supply chain performance; the use of the benchmarking process; and the use of the Baldridge Criteria for organizational assessment.

MS 792 SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN (Credits: 4)

The course studies models that explore the key issues associated with the design and management of supply networks. Special attention will be given to integration of supply chain decisions and consequential difficulties.

MS 793 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Explores the fundamentals of inventory management, including continuous replenishment, ordering policies, measuring global and chain inventory, inventory positioning within the chain, and risk pooling.

MS 794 LEAN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (Credits: 4)

Focuses on topics which support the development of lean supply chains within the organization. Topics include value stream mapping of processes, Kaizen approach to continuous improvement, and use of quality tools for process evaluation.

MS 795 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SUPPLY CHAINS (Credits: 4)

IT & SC focuses on managing material and information outside the factory walls including aspects of product design collaboration, demand planning and forecasting, inventory deployment, distribution design system, channel management, procurement, and logistics.

MS 796 STRATEGIC SOURCING (Credits: 4)

Course covers current issues of strategic sourcing within organizations. Begins by underscoring the differences between tactical versus strategic sourcing.

MS 797 GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (Credits: 4)

This course covers important issues relating to global supply chain management and coordinating production plans across the world. Key issues of global operations and SCM will be addressed.

MS 798 SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION (Credits: 4)

Course addresses issues of managing entities of the supply chain for efficient information flow and collaborative decision making. Includes cross-enterprizes collaborations, technology structure, intra-enterprise collaboration, and building collaborative supply chains.

MS 799 SCM PROJECT (Credits: 1 TO 8)

The SCM project will be designed individually by the student and supervised by a faculty member. The project will examine issue areas in supply chain management.