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Enterprise Resource Planning & Control

This course will provide the fundamentals of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems concepts, and the importance of integrated information systems in an organization. The focus of this course is on illustrating procurement, production, and sales business processes using ERP software. This course introduces the world of ERP's to future Supply Chain employee's. The understanding of the benefits of technology use within the efficient movement of materials and products is essential in the world of Supply Chain.

Psychology, Introduction to

This course introduces students to some of the major theories and topics of psychology, including the physiological basis of behavior, personality and learning theories, memory, states of consciousness, stress, research methods, intelligence, human development, psychopathology, and social behavior.

Global Supply Chain Management

This course introduces the student to supply chain financial transactions which include foreign exchange market, fluctuations of the market, role of the global capital market, major determinants in country risk, methods of foreign market entry, international contracts and commercial documents, export packaging, customs clearance, and global supply chain logistics infrastructure.

Transportation Management

In this course, students explore the complexity of the transportation industry. They examine modes of transportation, regulatory guidelines, and associated economic impact. Students analyze environmental and sociological elements of transportation logistics. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to explain how materials are managed as they move through the supply chain.

Introduction to Manufacturing & Robotics

In this course, learners examine the historical significance of manufacturing and robotics in the US and world economies. Learners identify a wide variety of manufacturing processes, and analyze manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Learners explore the relationships among the properties of the material, the manufacturing process, and the design of components. Upon successful completion of the course, learners will be able to communicate the language and benefits of manufacturing and robotics.

Mathematical Reasoning

All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about fiscal, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. An activity based approach is used to explore numerical relationships, graphs, proportional relationships, algebraic reasoning, and problem solving using linear, exponential and other mathematical models. Students will develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts.

Accounting Principles

Accounting Principles is an introduction to the field of accounting. Fundamental concepts of the accounting process including financial statement preparation, journal entries, posting, adjusting and closing entries. Cash, inventory, receivables, payables, and plant assets including depreciation methods are also covered.

Introduction to Logistics

This course prepares the students to be able to explain the historical and economic significance of transportation in US and world economies, utilize the correct transportation terminology, analyze the operating and service characteristics of the five major modes of transportation, differentiate cost and pricing structures of five major modes of transportation, decide the best mode of transportation to use for specific shipments, analyze the forms of special transportation services, and analyze the information technology systems used in the transportation industry.

Supply Chain Management

The Supply Chain Management course is designed to examine Supply Chain Management Fundamentals; Procurement, Manufacturing and Operations Management, Transportation and Logistics,Inventory and Warehousing, Demand Planning, Scheduling an Performance Management or Analysis.