Master of Business Administration: Supply Chain and Logistics
Master of Business Administration: Supply Chain and Logistics
Supply Chain and Logistics Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Why an MBA Concentration in Supply Chain and Logistics?
Supply chain decisions shape whether organizations can deliver what customers and stakeholders need, when and where they need it, and at a cost the organization can sustain. Choices involving sourcing, inventory, capacity, transportation, distribution, and supplier relationships affect service, working capital, resilience, speed, and exposure to disruption. Because these decisions often cross organizational and geographic boundaries, supply chain performance depends on coordinating many moving parts whose effects can compound quickly.
Supply chain and logistics require balancing service expectations with cost, capacity, inventory, lead times, and risk. Sourcing decisions influence price, quality, availability, and dependence on particular suppliers or regions. Inventory can protect against uncertainty but also ties up capital and creates carrying costs. Transportation and distribution choices affect speed, reliability, and customer experience, while network design influences how efficiently products and information move through the system. Analytics can help organizations evaluate tradeoffs, model demand, identify constraints, and understand how changes in one part of the supply chain may affect performance elsewhere.
Rowan’s fixed Supply Chain and Logistics sequence connects supply chain fundamentals, supply chain strategy, and analytics. The broader MBA provides context in areas such as finance, marketing, operations, analytics, and management. Together, these perspectives can help students understand how supply chain choices influence service, cost, risk, resource use, and the organization’s ability to respond effectively as conditions change.
Concentration Details
Requirement: 9 credits; complete all three required Supply Chain and Logistics courses.
The fixed course sequence brings together logistics and supply chain fundamentals, supply chain strategy, and analytics, connecting operating decisions with strategic tradeoffs and analytical decision support across the supply chain.
Concentration courses may also be taken as graduate business electives when students satisfy any listed Foundations and prerequisites.
*STEM-designated course. For degree-level requirements, see the STEM MBA.
Course Details
Required Courses
MKT 09575 - Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The course is a basic introduction to the field of logistics and supply chain management, including both defense logistics and commercial supply chain management. The objective of the course is to provide students a solid awareness and understanding of the processes and functions that comprise a supply chain. The course serves as the introductory course of a three course specialization in Supply Chains and Logistical Systems in the MBA program. Moreover, students are required to complete a term project to demonstrate their understanding of logistics and supply chain issues. Case analysis and hands-on experience in this class will offer students the opportunity to broaden their horizon on the critical roles that the supply chain plays in this globalized and interdependent world.
Foundations: Marketing.
MKT 09605 - Supply Chain Strategy
This course is designed to educate students how to leverage supply chain management strategies to help a business improve and maintain its competitiveness. This course covers the fundamentals of supply chain strategy, issues, and challenges. Additional topics covered include logistics networks, forecasting, inventory management, supply contracts, strategic alliances, supply chain integration and design, procurement and outsourcing, customer value and international issues. Case studies are used in conjunction with a supply chain simulation to illustrate the concepts covered in lectures.
Foundations: Operations Management.
Prerequisite: MKT 09575 Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
SCL 01620 – Analytics for Supply Chain Management (STEM*)
Given the increasing availability of data in today’s business environment, integrating it into decision-making is critical for increasing efficiency and profit generation. This course introduces students to the analytical techniques such as optimization modeling, which enables them to make performance recommendations and investigate what-if scenarios in business problems. This course focuses on several critical supply chain functions and teaches students how to effectively understand and analyze data that may be available to them in the supply chain.
Supply Chain and Logistics Certificate Option
The Supply Chain and Logistics Certificate of Graduate Study provides focused graduate study in logistics, supply chain strategy, and analytics. For students who complete the COGS before entering the MBA, the same coursework can satisfy the Supply Chain and Logistics Concentration.
