Fundamental concepts and software tools needed to understand and
gain practical experience in the emerging fields of big data and
business analytics in organizations, with specific emphasis on
the requirements and context of Supply Chain and Operations
Management.
Athena Title
Supply Chain Analytics
Prerequisite
MGMT 3000 or MGMT 3000E or MGMT 3000H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will utilize skills in understanding the framework of today’s organizations and how data gets created inside and outside organizations.
Students will understand the role of (commercial) transactional software packages on how data gets entered and stored.
Students will know how to use common tools to extract data from commercial software packages, for example SQL queries, Excel spreadsheets, data warehousing, and data presentation software.
Students will articulate assumptions and limitations of the techniques that are used in this course.
Students will identify potential associative and causal relationships between variables of interest.
Students will evaluate the suitability of available data for use in analysis.
Students will create presentations for managers and other employees in an organization that tell a story based on data analytics.
Topical Outline
Section 1 – Getting to and understanding Supply Chain data, warehousing and ERP systems review, SQL queries, analytics on spreadsheets
Section 2 – Visualizing and exploring Supply Chain data, creating charts, storytelling with data
Section 3 – Supply Chain data case studies, analysis of the Supply Chain data, creating the hypotheses, building the
presentation, finishing the presentation
Section 4 – Data mining and analysis, introduction to data mining, spreadsheet modeling and analysis, building a Supply
Chain simulation, using data visualization software
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
