MTL 6601
Seminar in Supply Chain Management
3 credits

This course is designed to provide students a framework for understanding the defining supply chain systems while developing an understanding of the complexity, opportunities, and pitfalls of management issues regarding these systems. The course also provides knowledge about the organization's role within a global supply chain and competitive market.

MTL 6667
Logistics Management
3 credits

This course introduces logistics/physical distribution and supply, and the related costs. It provides a systematic overview and analysis of the elements of logistics functions in widely varying types of industries and agencies, including handling, warehousing, inventory control, and financial controls.

MTL 6668
Transportation Management
3 credits

This course focuses on inter-modal transportation as part of supply chain management. The course is divided into six parts: (1) the development of the global transportation system, (2) transportation regulation, (3) the modes of transportation and how they interface, (4) shipper issues, (5) inter-modal transportation management, and (6) the future in transportation.

MTL 7600
International Intermodel Transportation
3 credits

This course focuses on international inter-modal transportation operations. International carriers face new challenges in the global market moving commodities, goods, and people. The growing number of international and regional market arrangements and the growing complexity of national laws and demands for Just-in-Time technologies magnify those challenges.

MTL 7601
Logistics and Transportation Simulation
3 credits

This course is the capstone for supply chain management students. The knowledge gained in all other supply chain management courses is applied in a simulated situation encompassing the problems faced when competing with another national state seeking to enter into the same market.

Prerequisite(s): MGT 6601, 6667, 6668, and 7600