Master Syllabus: MKT 44651

TROYUNIVERSITY
MASTERSYLLABUS
SORRELLCOLLEGE OF BUSINESS

MKT 4465
Supply Chain Management

Prerequisites

MKT 3300

Description:

This course examines the key concepts and principles associated with the flow of materials and information from suppliers to customers for both manufacturing and service firms. Topics focus on the procurement, operations, transportation, and integration activities associated with a firm’s distribution system.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of supply chain management concepts, principles and practices.
  2. Explain the importance of an efficient and effective supply chain system to a firm’s overall business performance in today’s global economy.
  3. Evaluate the performance of a firm’s supply chain system.
  4. Apply supply chain management theories and concepts to the design of a supply chain system.

Purpose

To provide in-depth knowledge of supply chain management functions in marketing management. This course covers the theories, concepts and practices of supply chain management, and fosters the development of the skills necessary to manage efficient and effective supply chain systems. Marketing concentration elective.

Approved Texts

Chopra & Meindl (2016 or current). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (6th ed.). Pearson.

Bowersox, Closs & Cooper (2012 or current). Supply Chain Logistics Management (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Murphy & Knemeyer (2014 or current). Contemporary Logistics (11th ed.). Pearson.

Supplements

As deemed appropriate.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc.

Troy University Sorrell College Mission Statement

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

Troy University Sorrell College Vision Statement

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Troy University Faculty Handbook (2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

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