Department of Management

Supply Chain

What is a Supply Chain?

Contemporary organizations are finding that they can manage their operations more efficiently and more effectively by focusing on business processes rather than on traditional business functions. The supply chain concept emerges from viewing an organization as an integrated set of functions and process flows. A Supply Chain is the sequence of organizations (facilities, processes, activities, and people) involved in the transformation of raw materials into finished goods and the delivery of those goods to the customer.

What is Supply Chain Management?

Supply Chain Management is the coordination and integration of the activities that procure materials and services, transform them into intermediate and final products, and deliver them to the customer. It involves the management of: (a) materials and products, (b) money, (c) information, and (d) relationships among the organizations comprising the supply chain.

Supply Chain @ Akron

We have designed our curriculum based on input from a focus group of supply chain executives from prominent manufacturing companies in Northeast Ohio. Students graduating from our programs have been hired by companies such as Linde Gas, Timken, UPS, and First Energy.

The department offers the following programs:
Bachelor of Science in Management (BSM) Supply Chain / Operations Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Supply Chain Management


Contact:
Professor Ravi Krovi
330.972.8108
krovi@uakron.edu