Business Administration - Supply Chain and Operations Management (Co-op)

Description: This series of modules will prepare students for job searching for their co-op work terms with the guidance of a Coop Advisor. Students will familiarize themselves with the co-operative education policies and procedures and will learn the expectations, rules, and regulations that apply in the workplace regarding social, organizational, ethical, and safety issues while developing an awareness of self-reflective practices. Students will reflect on their skills, attitudes, and expectations and examine available opportunities in the workplace. Successful completion of these modules is a requirement for co-op eligibility.

• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
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Description: This course concentrates on advanced spreadsheet techniques that will transform data into information to improve decision making; designing and creating Decision Support Systems (DSS). In addition to the creation of multiple DSS, students will also incorporate design best practices that will support effective solutions and ensure data quality. Students will utilize analysis tools such as Solver, Scenario Manager, Pivot Tables, and Power View and visualization tools such as Graphs and Pivot Graphs. Students will demonstrate these techniques through industry related assignments and the use of case studies.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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Description:

This is an introductory course in Business Statistics. The course covers simple descriptive statistics, probability and the binomial and normal probability distributions, simple linear regression, and correlation analysis.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: MATH1010
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Description:

The use of enterprise systems is essential to managing the operations of a multi-national organization. Through the applied use of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, this course will explore the functional structure and process orientation of a business. Process orientation, and its relationship to improved cross-functional interaction, has been discussed by many business thought leaders, including W. Edwards Deming and Michael Porter. This course will conceptualize information systems as the utilization of technical resources to support organizational processes. Students will be engaged in an active learning approach including use of SAP ERP, as well as ERPsim - a game-based ERP simulation. Within this context, students will learn to manage a company’s key business processes in a real-time simulated competitive environment to gain technical skills with SAP and learn how ERP systems facilitate the creation of transactional data and the foundations of business reporting and analysis.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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Description:

The function of master planning is to balance customer demands and supply realities. This course offers an in-depth analysis of the activities necessary to accomplish this balance. Areas of study include demand management, sales and operations planning, and master scheduling. Students will use spreadsheet-based software to develop models to apply these concepts to business scenarios.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: OPER1220
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Description:

This intermediate course will provide students with an opportunity to further develop their communication skills within a systems thinking context. Students will explore systems thinking perspectives while further developing their written and verbal communication skills.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: OPER1490
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Description: This co-op work term will provide students with college-approved work experience in an authentic, professionally relevant work environment. Students will be provided the opportunity to connect theory and practice by leveraging their academic training to develop a broad base of vocational skills. The practical applications of this work term will promote students’ awareness of key concepts and terminology in their field, cultivate their problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, encourage their development of professional autonomy and collaboration, and enhance their capacity to analyze and reflect on their demonstrated abilities in the workplace.

• Hours: 420
• Credits: 14
• Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020 OR CEPR1020
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Description:

This dynamic career course offers a comprehensive exploration of essential skills and strategies required for career success. Students will learn to navigate the labour market effectively, conducting research to identify employment opportunities and potential employers that align with their career goals. They will also attain skills in writing professional self marketing documents, tailored to specific job opportunities. With a focus on interview preparation, students will participate in a range of simulated scenarios, learning to respond confidently and competently to various interview questions, enhancing their employability and interview performance. By the end of the course, students will emerge equipped with the skills and strategies needed to thrive in today's competitive job market.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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Description:

This senior course will provide students with an opportunity to apply their communication and systems thinking skills through case studies and multicourse assignments. Students will explore and effectively communication connections between areas of supply chain and operations management study.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: OPER2100
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Description:

The areas of Transportation and Warehousing are critical to the success of executing a supply chain strategy. Consumers are demanding and require agile fulfilment facilities to support their buy anywhere, ship anywhere, and return anywhere habits. Efficient and effective transportation systems are indispensable for economic sustainability. Organizations need a transportation and warehousing network that meets stakeholder expectations for cost, quality, time and location.In this course the student will explore the efficient handling and movement of goods, services, materials and related information within and between supply chains. This will be achieved by examining transportation methods, warehousing concepts, distribution networks and the related total cost of ownership decisions.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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Description: During this course, students will study the principles, concepts, and techniques used by supply chain professionals to prioritize, schedule, control, and evaluate the effectiveness of execution systems. The student will develop an understanding of capacity planning, job shop and just-in-time execution systems, linking internal execution systems to the systems of supply chain partners.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: OPER2040 OR OPER2045
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Description: This course allows the student to apply in a lab environment the fundamental concepts, principles and techniques of a user of a computerized material requirements planning (MRP) system. The course will provide the student with an understanding of where MRP is employed in the Business Planning Cycle and the key issues regarding the effective use of the MRP system to maximize customer service, minimize inventory investment, improve cash flow, and improve profits. The course will emphasize use in a job shop environment, then apply the necessary system updates required to move to a JIT planning environment.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: OPER2045
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Description:

During this course, students will learn to apply the concepts, philosophies, and techniques associated with the development of a less resource-intensive, high-quality service and manufacturing operations through the application of lean and six sigma techniques.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: MATH2250 OR MATH2255 OR OLRN1790
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Description:

This senior course will focus on continuous improvement leadership to improve productivity, customer value delivery, and financial performance. Students will explore effective leadership and team building from an integrative supply chain systems thinking and theory of constraints perspectives.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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Description: Organizations are tasked with managing complex and evolving global supply chains. International logistics is the process of planning, implementing and controlling the flow of materials, finished goods and related information across international borders. Free trade agreements are increasing the amount of international trade thus increasing the amount of activity in International Logistics. Supply Chain professionals must recognize the trade-offs in the total cost of ownership. Key issues to be considered include trade compliance, risk, security, language, time zones, culture, emerging and disruptive technologies to design a resilient supply chain. The student must ensure that international logistics activities and transactions are compliant with relevant legal, global regulatory and contractual obligations while meeting stakeholder expectations for cost, quality, time and location.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: OPER3160
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Description:

This course will concentrate on the application of sound purchasing management principles to actual business problems. The ethical application of sound supply chain management principles to the development and execution of buying recommendations will be emphasized.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
• Pre-Requisites: OPER2230 OR OPER2235
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Description: This course is the capstone of the operations planning and information technology themes of the program and provides students with hands-on experiential learning in the integrated use of ERP systems, decision support models, and integrated analytics. In this course students will utilize advanced spreadsheet functions and tools to develop decision support models for demand, production, and inventory planning to be used while participating in a business simulation game, ERPsim. In this simulation game student teams will manage a virtual company in a competitive market and utilize their knowledge of the operations planning process, ERP systems, and data analytics to operationalize a business strategy and monitor results utilizing analytics methods. Students will develop data models, queries, and analytics approaches with spreadsheets to build data visualizations, interactive dashboards, and scorecards.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
• Pre-Requisites: MGMT2230 AND OPER3190 AND OPER3205
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Description:

In this capstone course students learn to create, develop, and recommend an improvement plan for an organization, either product or service based, using modern value stream mapping analysis tools and lean techniques. The practical solutions, developed by the students, help organizations deliver increased customer value, improved productivity and improved operational and financial performance.

• Hours: 70
• Credits: 5
• Pre-Requisites: MGMT2230 AND OPER3010 AND OPER3190 AND OPER3215
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