Classes in BULM
| BULM720 | The Green Supply Chain (2 credits) | |
| For majors only. In response to international regulation of carbon emissions and increasing corporate responsibility pressures, companies are seeking to develop greener supply chains. Companies such as WalMart have undergone a paradigm shift in how they manage their businesses to emphasize environmental stewardship and due diligence on product sustainability. Students are provided with key concepts and tools for designing and managing environmentally sustainable, low-impact supply chains. | ||
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| BULM724 | Negotiations in Supply Chain Management (2 credits) | |
| For majors only. This high experiential course will improve students' negotiation skills and capacity to acquire and effectively use power. By using a variety of assessment tools, feedback sources, skill-building exercises, and exercise debriefings, the class will increase students' negotiating self-confidence and improve their capacity to achieve win-win solutions to individual, team, and organizational problems. The course is designed to enhance students negotiating self confidence and improve students analytical skills, interpersonal skills, creativity (e.g., identifying creative solutions to conflict), and persuasive abilities. | ||
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| BULM734 | Assessing and Managing Supply Chain Risks (3 credits) | |
| For majors only. Supply chain managers are facing an increasingly volatile operating environment, with constant danger of trading community disruption from business, social and environmental risks. Students are provided with a working knowledge of both the core techniques of supply chain risk assessment and mitigation; as well as best practices in establishing formal corporate supply chain risk management programs. A semester-long X-Treme Supply Chain Simulation will enable students to gain hands-on experience in navigating a computer company through a complex and risky four quarters of global business operations. | ||
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| BULM736 | Executives in Supply Chain Management (3 credits) | |
| For majors only. Designed to provide students an opportunity to engage in intensive interaction with senior supply chain executives from a cross-section of industries. Executives share their insights on leading competitive supply chains in the global marketplace, while students research the competitive supply chain dynamics of each executive's industry. | ||
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