2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Nov 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

BSA 310 - Logistics and Supply Chain Theory


Description: Intermediate concepts of Supply Chain Management and Logistics theory. Emphasis on inventory management, supply distribution, procurement and strategic sourcing, asset management, and risk mitigation techniques.

Prerequisites: Program Admission. ACC 131, BSA 131, CSA 110, ECN 232, and ECN 236.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Goods, services & operations management
  2. Value chains
  3. Forecasting and demand planning
  4. Technology and operations management
  5. Goods and service design
  6. Facility and work design
  7. Capacity management
  8. Supply chain design
  9. Managing inventories
  10. Quality control and statistical process control
  11. Lean operating systems
  12. Operations scheduling and sequencing

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Formulate the various transactions that accompany the movement of goods and services throughout the globe. (1-4, 9-12)
  2. Analyze business scenarios, including operations related to purchasing, inventory, management, manufacturing, distribution and related functions. (1, 5-8, 11, 12)
  3. Appraise current issues affecting operational decisions in product and service related industries. (1, 3, 9-12)
  4. Analyze political and cultural issues affecting movement of products in a global marketplace. (7-12)
  5. Design a project plan for a start-up organization that integrates TQM, JIT forecasting, inventory theory and supply chain management concepts. (1-4, 9-12)