Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management

0302160

Principles of Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

None

This course presents the current management practices as they apply in the modern business world. The course discusses the four cornerstones of the management function: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. It addresses the function of management from classical, behavioral, contingency and system perspectives.

0302170

Principles of Marketing

3 CR

Prerequisite:

None

This course is designed to acquaint students with the scope and nature of the marketing function, the way business organizations build and maintain profitable relationships with customers and create value to optimize their positions in today’s dynamic competitive environment. The course will help students understand and develop a marketing plan by integrating the components of the marketing mix and by making valid, sustainable, and ethical decisions. Subjects covered include marketing definition and function, marketing plan process, the marketing environment, key customer-driven marketing strategy decisions (i.e., segmentation, targeting, positioning), and the tactical marketing tools or marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and place).

0302250

Legal Environment of Business

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302160 - Principles of Management

This course will provide a general and practical introduction to the legal environment that affects business persons, traders, and other business transactions. It will consider how laws are applied in business contexts and how it impacts upon its activities, contracts, business organizations, companies law, labor law and commercial transactions. The course will address various legal subjects including contract law, commercial law, litigation law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), corporate law, tort law, civil law and liability law, intellectual property and Internet laws. The focus will be on common law, but the course will also consider the civil legal system in the UAE. The course mainly focuses on practical aspects of the business environment.

0302262

Organizational Behavior

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302160 - Principles of Management

This course seeks to familiarize students with the basic principles of individual and group behaviour and their applications within organizations. Topics covered include job design, perceptions, learning, communication, decision-making, motivation, group dynamics, conflict management, power and politics, leadership, organizational change and effectiveness.

0302350

Ethics & Islamic Values in Business

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302250 - Legal Environment of Business

What ‘ought’ to be the right thing to do? What ‘should’ be done? Ethics is concerned with such ‘ought’ and ‘should’ questions, making it a normative field. In this course, we try to define Ethics in general and Business Ethics in particular. We attempt to approach these questions from both a Western and Islamic perspectives.

The course is structured along three parts. In the first & second parts, we investigate the foundations of ethics from Western and Islamic perspectives. The third part looks at some important ethical issues pertaining to business activities. This part serves to apply the ethical concepts and theories to real-life business scenarios covered in the first two parts using real case studies (e.g. Enron, WorldCom, Nestle, Nike, and the like).

0302361

Operations & Supply Chain Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1440264 - Business Statistics

This course provides an understanding of fundamental concepts of operations and supply chain management. It covers the systematic approaches to managing all activities involved in producing goods and delivering services including their transformation process from point of origin to point of use. Students will learn responsibilities of operations and supply chain managers, operations strategy, productivity measurement, layout strategy, product design, supply chain activities, and supply chain analytics using multiple tools and techniques.

0302461

Research Methods

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1440264 - Business Statistics

The course introduces students to the basics of Business Research. Students will gain an understanding of the importance of business research and how research is carried out in business settings. The course will cover both qualitative and quantitative research tools (Survey, experimentation, observation Focus group and depth interviews) and the processes of developing and assessing the validity of measurement tools. Additionally, the course will introduce common sampling procedures and will expose students to basic data analysis techniques using SPSS software. At the end of the course, students will complete in group, a research project based on business topic of interest.

0302467

Strategic Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

Senior Standing

Strategic Management is a course designed to expose students to a strategic perspective on issues that concern the firm as a whole. The course draws on and integrates concepts from the functional areas (i.e. marketing, finance, accounting, management, management information systems, and operations) in the analysis and resolution of complex business situations. It allows moving from a functional perspective to a strategic one. Beyond internal integration, Strategic Management concerns the processes by which firms choose, maintain or redirect their strategic positions within ever-changing external environments. The course also explores the issues of defining corporate mission, objectives, and goals. It focuses on the analysis of the firm's external and internal environment to identify reasons for competitive advantage in a global context. In that perspective, the course takes into account the cultural, ethical, political, and regulatory issues in the global business environment context. Through the combination of lectures, readings, case studies, class engagement, and project paper this course introduces the students to the concepts, theories, and tools and techniques prerequisite to critical and effective strategic analysis, thinking and communication.

0302200

Fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

3 CR

Prerequisite:

None

A non-conventional highly interactive course designed to provide UOS students with a unique experience into identifying the concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and leadership. At a practical level, this course equips students with the necessary design thinking and entrepreneurial skills and tools to enhance their personal development, business-oriented mindset and future professional career.

0302340

Supply Chain Planning & Operation

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302361 - Operations and Supply Chain Management

This course provides students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze, and improve core operational capabilities. The course focuses also on developing skills needed for analysis of planning, execution and control systems within the context of supply chains. This will include operation processes, operations strategy, supply network design, process design positioning, process design, analysis designing the innovation process, supply chain management, resource planning and control, inventory management capacity management, risk and resilience. improvement, lean synchronization.

0302341

Quality & Process Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1440264 - Business Statistics and 0302160 - Principles of Management

This course focuses on the application of quality and process management principles and best practices to logistics, supply chain, and information systems. It covers a range of topics and concepts in quality and process management, including data collection and analysis, statistical process control tools and techniques, product and process re-design and improvement, and quality improvement projects. Emphasis is placed on the practical application to the development of business information systems and the improvement of logistics and supply chain processes and systems.

0302443

Supply Chain Analytics

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1440264 - Business Statistics

The purpose of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the concepts related to managing supply chains using analytics. Students will also learn; Supply chain design choices in managing the responsiveness with which goods are supplied to clients, learn how to use historical data to predict future demand for products, understand practical techniques to improve supply chain performance without necessarily increasing costs. The strategy may include rescheduling or rapid response.

0302344

Logistics & Supply Chain Modeling

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302340 - Supply Chain Planning & Operation

This course is an introduction to industrial supply chain logistics systems, that will enhance understanding of the components of logistics systems, such as suppliers, production facilities, storage and distribution facilities, freight transportation systems, and associated information and decision technologies; The course will also cover the interactions between logistics systems components; and quantitative models and techniques for the analysis of logistics systems and the development of decision support technologies.

0302345

Distribution & Warehouse Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302340 - Supply Chain Planning & Operation

This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts, issues and algorithms involved in the design and operation of contemporary warehouses and distribution centers. More specifically, the course seeks to offer a balanced development of the following issues: Emphasis on physical distribution and total supply chain management. Includes warehouse operations management, hardware and software systems, warehouse layout, organizational effectiveness, as well as warehouse design and development.

0302346

Procurement & Supply Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302340 - Supply Chain Planning & Operation

The course will teach the students the integrated approach to planning, acquisition, flow, and distribution, from raw materials to finished products. Topics such as developing a corporate culture, working successfully with teams, developing and implementing successful people management strategies, and workflow and performance management will be explored in this course. Students will be familiar with the basics of purchasing and the purchasing environment in the private and public sector, gain an understanding of the various approaches, tools, and strategies used in negotiations, learn the fundamentals of the budgeting process and managing the process in an organization, and become aware of the basic subjects in the field of price and cost analysis from a purchasing and production perspective.

0302447

Internship in Supply Chain Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

To complete 75 credit hours

This course is intended to provide students with practical training in supply chain management (SCM) according to an approved plan. Each student must complete a minimum of six weeks of full-time supervised training in an organization designated by the College in cooperation with the University training office.

0302449

Project in Logistics & Supply Chain Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302340 - Supply Chain Planning & Operation and department approval

This is a project based, field-based, capstone course intended to provide the student the opportunity to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program to a realistic logistics and supply chain problem. The project involves examining a supply chain network to identify its processes, components, and partners; critically analyzing it to identify the constraints, limitations, and opportunities for improvement; and devising solutions to optimize its performance. Students are expected to analyze, design and implement a solution to a supply chain problem, and present their solution at the end of the semester. The project is to be undertaken in small groups to emphasize the importance of teamwork.

0309230

Database Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1153130 - Introduction to BIS

This course provides students with the theoretical foundation and technical skills required to implement a business database solution on a relational database management system using Microsoft Access (latest version). The course teaches students how to create tables, perform queries, create forms and reports according to storage needs and constraints and how to retrieve and modify specific data by using the Access (latest version) & SQL components. Finally, students will learn how to develop and test a database application.

1503441

Enterprise Systems

3 CR

Prerequisite:

1153130 - Introduction to BIS

The course provides an overview of enterprise systems architecture, with particular focus on integration and implementation issues. It provides detailed coverage of planning, designing, implementing, and integrating enterprise information systems. Enterprise software engineering concepts and techniques will also be covered.

0302441

Transportation Planning and Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302340 - Supply Chain Planning & Operation

This course is designed to acquaint the students with key methods and practices related to the effective planning and management of transportation systems in supply chains and logistics. it covers topics including transportation role in supply chain, transportation and economy, costing for transportation, motor carriers, railroads, airlines, transportation risk management, global transportation, technology and sustainable transportation.

1503347

Customer Relationship Management Systems

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302170 - Principles of Marketing

The aim of this course is to incorporate the role in achieving good customer relationship management with a customer and/or stakeholders. Also, this course will enable students to understand the key skills needed to carry out successful customer relationship management, in order to build more productive & mutually rewarding relationships with customers and/or stakeholders. The course will also cover how to identify and respond to customers & stakeholder needs, expectations & issues that both meet their needs and protects the interests of the organization. To understand the skills to communicate with and influence customers & stakeholders.

0302348

International Logistics

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302344 - Logistics and Supply Chain Modeling

The course Addressing both practical and strategic perspectives of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) concepts, practices, technologies, and applications. The course contributes to specific areas of LSCM provide students with real-world insights on supply chain relationships, transport security, inventory management, supply chain designs, the challenges inherent to globalization and international trade. This course explores how information, materials, products, and services flow across public and private sectors.

0302349

Logistics Cost Management

3 CR

Prerequisite:

0302344 - Logistics and Supply Chain Modeling

The course explores the key concepts of Strategic Cost / Price Analysis, Value Analysis, and Total Cost of Ownership that will move today’s organization to the strategic focus needed to achieve world-class supply chain performance. In this course, students will learn how to reduce costs, reduce prices, and avoid costs in the whole supply chain stages and processes hence that will help the students to develop and implement strategies for improving quality and productivity while managing costs in supply chain.