Supply Chain and Logistics Management
Trade, manufacturing, sourcing, global production — every item you touch and use, from your toothbrush to your telephone — has a complex story of parts and pieces that brought the functioning item to you.
Overview
Trade, manufacturing, sourcing, global production — every item you touch and use, from your toothbrush to your telephone — has a complex story of parts and pieces that brought the functioning item to you; supply chain and logistics management provides you with the knowledge to optimize how all these parts come together and when developed, in front of consumers.
As companies seek increased efficiencies and competitive advantages across production and product life cycles, supply chain and logistics management is a growing career.
While studying supply chain and logistics management, you'll train to be operations and procurement managers for companies and government agencies within manufacturing and service sectors around the globe.
Supply chain and logistics management is an undergraduate major degree offered in Corvallis or online through Ecampus.
What You’ll Learn
Use concepts of operations and supply chain management and qualitative and quantitative methods to make decisions in international business contexts that include new and unfamiliar situations.
Design management plans for global supply chains that are lawful, ethical and environmentally and socially responsible.
Develop a global outlook that reflects changes experienced and anticipated by firms and industries and understand the requirements for effective change management in global operations and supply chains.
degrees and areas of focus
of classes have fewer than 50 students
companies recruit our students each year
Magnate Worldwide, a supply chain management company focused on expedited domestic transportation and global freight forwarding, has partnered with the College of Business to provide supply chain and logistics management students with licensing to SAP University Alliance - ERP. This gives our students access to and training with the industry's leading enterprise resource planning software.
College of Business instructor Randal Smith discusses the challenges and opportunities of supply chain and logistics management: "Supply chain management is exciting to me because there are so many different job opportunities and so many different aspects to supply chain management. It's hard to think about a company or a job that it doesn't touch and it's always changing."
Accounting Opportunities
Study Abroad
Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney
Vienna, Austria: Vienna University of Economics & Business
Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, Facultad Economia y Negocios
Scholarships
Chevron International Experience Scholarship
Deloitte Scholarship
McNeal Family Accounting Scholarship
Pattee Family Accounting Scholarship
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Ways to Attend
We offer class in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.
Attend in-person in Corvallis and attend your classes in Austin Hall, one of the crown jewels of the OSU campus.
Study through Ecampus online an make your degree as convient as you need it to be.
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Meet Christopher Wilson
The opportunity for undergraduates to research alongside faculty, a benefit often reserved only for graduate students, is a standout bonus for College of Business students.
Take Christopher Wilson, a senior studying supply chain and logistics management. He knew he was getting an exciting opportunity to conduct undergraduate research with Professor Zhaohui Wu for the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO). But he didn't quite grasp the scope of the assignment until he was sitting in the kickoff meeting with, as he says, "all the adults."
"My expectation at that meeting was that I was the student, and I would be helping them, assisting someone," Wilson said. "But I quickly realized that I was their researcher, expected to supply them with information they didn't have." He also realized while pursuing the major that supply chain is becoming one of the largest industries not only in the U.S., but in international business operations worldwide.
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