A Unique Approach to Operations & Supply Chain Management
Students are prepared for specific GSCOM careers in global manufacturing firms in
production, purchasing, quality control, distribution and supply chain management;
in service firms for general operations management and logistics/supply chain management;
and in consulting firms as business process and quality improvement consultants. Even
while pursuing other majors in accounting, finance, international business, marketing
or MIS as primary careers, Operations & Supply Chain knowledge and skills provide
valuable complementary competencies.
The Operations & Supply Chain program consists of cutting-edge courses in Lean systems,
Six Sigma methodologies and business re-engineering process improvement approaches,
service operations management, strategic sourcing, logistics and distribution and
supply chain modeling and optimization. The program focuses on not just learning but
applying these skills through a Capstone consulting project course in which student
teams tackle a live operations, business process or supply chain improvement project
with an actual organization, thus preparing them for Six Sigma Green Belt certifications. Operations
& Supply Chain professors are not only accomplished scholars in the Operations & Supply
Chain field, but most have also executed significant process improvement and supply
chain consulting engagements with global firms.
A salient strength of the program is the Operations and Supply Chain Center, a consortium of major organizations with whom the program partners conduct value-added consulting projects, which not only provide the Capstone experience to students, but also benefit the partner firms.
Current partners of the Operations and Supply Chain Center are Carolina Healthcare Systems/Atrium Health, Continental Tire, Coca-Cola Consolidated, Cummins, Daimler, Delta, Johnson & Johnson, McLeod Health, Michelin, Nephron Pharmaceuticals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Smith & Nephew, Sonoco, Textron, Trane-Ingersoll Rand and UTC Aerospace Systems. Efforts are underway to expand the consortium to include more firms from the automotive, banking, hospital, hotel, packaging/shipment, transportation and other sectors.
The Moore School is unique from other business schools' Operations & Supply Chain programs because of the opportunity for undergraduates to attain the actual Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification. Students receive rigorous coverage of the Lean Six Sigma approach to supply chain and operations management and must complete a formal written Green Belt exam from Sonoco Product Company (a $4.9 billion global manufacturing firm) and a major certified project in one of our center partner firms to meet the project requirement for Green Belt certification.
Certified graduates are increasingly preferred over candidates from other leading programs and have found high-profile full-time positions in operations/process improvement and in supply chain domain in many leading firms. Employers of the Operations & Supply Chain program include Amazon, Bank of America, Boeing, Bosch, Carolina Healthcare Systems, C.H. Robinson, Colonial Life, Eastman Chemical, Ernst & Young, GE, IBM, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Manhattan Associates, McKinsey & Company, Michelin, Nestle, PwC, Polo Ralph Lauren and Target.
For more information, contact Professor Sanjay Ahire (803-873-3376).