Supply Chain Management and Logistics MSSCML

Major: Supply Chain Management and Logistics
Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Supply Chain Management and Logistics (MSSCML)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 45.0
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 52.1301
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-3071

Note: Students are no longer being accepted into this program.

About the Program

Today, companies worldwide are competing in very different ways and very different environments than they were in the past because of technological advances. Operations, supply chain management, and logistics are key functions through which companies can gain strategic advantage, and companies are hiring graduates to drive innovations for their new economic surroundings. 

The MS in Supply Chain Management and Logistics at Drexel LeBow is designed to enable students to manage and lead contemporary supply chains. We work with organizations and leaders from around the world to help shape strategies that inspire competitive advantage and drive business success.

All students have the opportunity to use program electives to complete a graduate minor for their degree. Students with appropriate preparation and interest for research can take courses from the LeBow doctoral program in Operations & Business Analytics.

Additional Information

For more information please contact our Graduate Student Services department at lebowgradenroll@drexel.edu

Degree Requirements

All students will be required to take a series of foundation courses in the management of operations and the quantitative methods that support analysis and decision-making for supply chain management and logistics. After the common core, the students will choose one of the following tracks:

(1) Industry Professional Track: This track covers a range of topics for practical management decisions over multiple horizons for different types of supply chains, and prepares the students for effective leadership in an increasingly complex, dynamic, global business environment.

(2) Research Track: This track goes deeper into the theoretical foundations of decision-making in supply chains and prepares students for doctoral studies in the area.

Core Courses
POM 610Supply Chain Management I3.0
POM 615Supply Chain Management II3.0
POM 642Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Logistics3.0
POM 645Supply Chain Analytics3.0
Quantitative Methods
OPR 601Managerial Decision Models and Simulation3.0
STAT 610Statistics for Business Analytics3.0
STAT 634Quality & Six-Sigma3.0
Business Technology and Analytics
Select two (2) of the following courses.6.0
Data Visualization & Analytics
Leading the Digital Supply Chain
Python Programming for Business Applications
Emerging Information Technologies in Business
Capstone Project
POM 770Supply Chain Management and Logistics Capstone Project3.0
Elective courses or graduate minor
Select four (4) of the following* courses or a graduate minor program12.0
Essentials of Economics
Microeconomics
International Economics
Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications
Database Analysis and Design for Business
Information Systems Outsourcing Management
Managing with Enterprise Application Software using SAP - Logistics
Special Topics in MIS
Decision Models for the Public Sector
Leading in Dynamic Environments: A Personal, Relational, and Strategic Approach
Leading Effective Organizations
Management of Service Firms
Advanced Supply Chain Management
Transportation & Logistics Management
Managing Queues for Service Operations
Revenue Management
Advanced Statistical Quality Control
Experiential Learning Requirement 3.0
Graduate Internship
Business Consulting
Negotiations for Leaders
Total Credits45.0
*

Students with interest for research can substitute courses from the LeBow doctoral program in Operations & Business Analytics. Other substitutions must be approved by academic advisor and department.

Sample Plan of Study

First Year
FallCreditsWinterCreditsSpringCreditsSummerCredits
OPR 6013.0POM 6153.0POM 6453.0Experiential Learning Requirement*3.0
POM 6103.0Business Technology & Analytics Elective3.0STAT 6343.0 
STAT 6103.0Elective3.0Business Technology & Analytics Elective3.0 
 9 9 9 3
Second Year
FallCreditsWinterCredits  
POM 6423.0Electives6.0  
POM 7703.0   
Elective3.0   
 9 6  
Total Credits 45
*

Note:  Summer is less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students this term.

Note: First Year Summer is less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students this term.

Facilities

The 12-story, 177,500-square-foot home for LeBow College of Business is located at the heart of the Drexel University campus, at the intersection of Woodland Walk and Market Street, where it forms a gateway to Drexel and a backdrop to the historic statue of A. J. Drexel (Moses Ezekiel, 1904). The diagonal massing of the lower floors follows Woodland Walk and combines with the new Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (Diamond & Schmitt, 2011) to energize the University’s central quadrangle. The building’s tower will mark the LeBow College and Drexel campus from all directions while the open, glassy Market Street façade will showcase the College’s student activities to passersby.

The building’s organization unites the school’s various constituencies around a five-story-high atrium ringed by classrooms, student lounges, events spaces, and offices. The atrium is immediately accessible from main entrances at the three corners of the building. An open stair within the atrium leads to a 300-seat auditorium and 100-seat lecture hall one floor below and to a divisible multipurpose room and additional classrooms above. The building’s upper floors contain faculty offices interspersed with seminar rooms and group study rooms. The top floor houses the Dean’s suite and a boardroom and conference suite that opens to east- and west-facing terraces.

The building’s warm masonry and glass exterior reflects the emerging vocabulary of the next generation of Drexel buildings. Sophisticated solar shading devices allow maximum transparency between the inside and outside while supporting the building’s high environmental aspirations.

Key Building Features

  • Five-story atrium
  • Finance trading lab with Bloomberg Terminal Room
  • 300-seat auditorium
  • 160-seat event space
  • 100-seat lecture hall
  • 45-seat seminar rooms
  • 44-seat computer classrooms
  • 60-seat classrooms
  • Executive MBA classroom
  • 24-seat classrooms
  • Special areas for experiential learning simulations and business consulting
  • Videoconferencing capabilities
  • Integrated teaching technology in all classrooms
  • Recording studio to support LeBow College’s online programs
  • Extensive areas for students to gather socially and for collaborative study, including student collaboration rooms, two quiet study areas, and 3,500 square feet of student social space
  • EMBA Alumni Lounge for the exclusive use of EMBA alumni
  • Behavioral Studies Lab
  • Starbucks
  • Green Globe certifiable, meeting worldwide sustainability standards

Gerri C. LeBow Hall brings together faculty, students, and staff in a state-of-the-art building on the University City campus. Please visit the LeBow College of Business webpage, the Behavioral Lab webpage, and the Finance Trading Lab webpage to learn more about Gerri C. LeBow Hall.

Supply Chain Management Faculty

Edward Arnheiter, PhD (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Clinical Professor. Lean Six Sigma, quality implementation, quality management, statistical quality control, supply chain management
Avijit Banerjee, PhD (The Ohio State University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Interface with marketing, pricing revenue management, inventory control, operations planning and scheduling, production planning and control, supply chain management
Hande Benson, PhD (Princeton University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Interior-point methods, large scale optimization, mathematical programming, nonlinear optimization, operations and supply chain optimization, optimization software, portfolio optimization
Anna Devlin, PhD (University of Maryland, College Park). Associate Clinical Professor. Department of Decision Sciences & MIS. Behavioral operations management, contracts and incentives.
Christopher Gaffney, PhD (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Clinical Professor. Applied probability, decision theory, risk analysis
Seung-Lae Kim, PhD (Penn State University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Lean production systems, production capacity and flexibility, theory/philosophy of Operations Management.
Jinwook Lee, PhD (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Assistant Professor. Decision models, mathematical programming, risk assessment stochastic optimization, stochastic processes.
Benjamin Lev, PhD (Case Western Reserve University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Inventory theory, scheduling, queueing theory, optimization.
Fariborz Y. Partovi, PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Professor. Manufacturing technology development, quality implementation, quality management, service management, Six-Sigma
Matthew Reindorp, PhD (University of Maryland College Park) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Clinical Professor. Real options, simulation, stochastic processes, simulation.
Wenjing Shen, PhD (University of Michigan) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Professor. Supply chain management, interface marketing, pricing and revenue management.
Min Wang, PhD (Columbia University) Department of Decision Sciences and MIS. Associate Clinical Professor. Healthcare operations management, inventory control, production planning and control, service management, supply chain management
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