COMM 4501

Supply chains generate vast amounts of data spanning from financing, sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, marketing, logistics, consumption, and product returns. Supply chain analytics helps organizations (profit or non-profit) to make faster, smarter, and more effective decisions. This course examines the importance of business analytics in supply chain and logistics management, including descriptive, predictive, prescriptive, and cognitive tools and techniques for analyzing current supply chain operations, forecasting new trends, and making efficient tactical and strategic decisions. Students will be introduced to a variety of example applications and real-life cases and will further develop their own understanding and skills through acomprehensive class project.