Online B.S. in Applied Technology: Supply Chain Management

This course covers principles of contemporary approaches to logistics and supply chain management. Topics discussed include inventory control, forecasting, vendor management, procurement, transportation, warehousing, global logistics, lean logistics, reverse logistics and supply chain integration techniques.

The course explores the princes of the procurement process within the organization. Purchasing policies and procedures, supply chain management integration, supplier evaluation and selection, supplier management, supplier quality management, supplier development, worldwide sourcing, strategic cost management, negotiation and conflict management and purchasing law and ethics are analyzed.

This course offers an analysis of domestic and international transportation in support of logistics and supply chain management operations. Topics include third-party evaluation and selection, transportation mode selection, logistics network design, transportation regulations and routing and scheduling.

This writing-intensive course is an evaluation of warehousing operations and management practices. Topics explored include warehouse design, material handling equipment and techniques, inventory control best practices, productivity improvement, warehouse safety and analysis of tools and techniques used in warehouse and inventory management.

This course explores the theory of demand and value, pricing, production, resource allocation and general equilibrium.

This course covers the full range of business analytics — descriptive, predictive and prescriptive.

Study the operations and roles of the major participants in the financial system and the factors influencing them. Topics include financial institutions, central banking, monetary policy, interest rates, financial markets, financial innovation and regulatory reform.

This course will examine such investment alternatives as stocks, bonds, options and various specialized investment alternatives. The importance of both fundamental and technical analysis will be explored. There will be a strong emphasis on evaluating appropriate risk-return trade-offs and the implications of modern portfolio theory.

Explore management concepts in the context of health care organizations and the external environment; planning and goal setting; decision-making and problem-solving; personnel selection; performance appraisal; and risk management.

This course covers principles of law and the U.S. legal system as applied in health care organizations; documentation, privacy, security, and release of information; liability, consent, and malpractice; and social and ethical issues encountered in trying to balance the interests, needs and rights of individual citizens against those of society.

Study principles of contemporary approaches to logistics and supply chain management. Topics discussed include inventory control, forecasting, vendor management, procurement, transportation, warehousing, global logistics, lean logistics, reverse logistics and supply chain integration techniques.

An overview of the business of health, emphasis on evaluating the challenges facing health care organizations using competitive analysis, identifying their past responses, and exploring the current strategies they are using to manage these challenges (and emerging ones) more effectively.