Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Master’s Program

Opportunities for graduate studies

Firms are increasingly seeking students with master of business administration degrees in logistics and supply chain management. This increased demand is because of their effect on competitiveness and the unique skills required for managing logistical processes within a firm and across multiple firms in the supply chain.

You will directly benefit by learning leading-edge logistics practices, working in the research center, performing internships in logistics, interacting with logistics professionals and graduating with a highly marketable degree. Upon graduation, you will qualify for professional certification from the American Society of Transportation and Logistics.

M.B.A. students take several courses that contribute to their understanding of the interaction between logistics and other business processes. The courses are drawn from computer information systems, economics, finance, law, management, marketing, quantitative methods, social psychology and speech.

Graduates of our program have accepted positions with TXI, Bell Helicopter, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company and Verizon.

The UNT College of Business Administration is accredited at the graduate level by AACSB International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [777 South Harbour Island Blvd., Suite 750, Tampa, Fla. 33602-5730, telephone (813) 769-6500]. This means the college has passed strict academic standards for excellence in education.

Admission requirements

You must meet the admission requirements of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies. For graduate school requirements and possible exceptions, access the graduate catalog online at www.unt.edu/catalog. In addition, you must satisfy the following admission requirements of the College of Business Administration's graduate programs.

• a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from a regionally accredited institution
• a 2.8 overall GPA or a 3.0 GPA on the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work. Applicants with a master's degree must have at least a 3.4 GPA.
• satisfactory scores on the GMAT or GRE, but no minimum score is required
• resume
• essay

You are encouraged to contact a graduate adviser in the College of Business Administration for additional information related to admission.

Degree requirements

The M.B.A. degree with a concentration in logistics and supply chain management requires the completion of 18 hours of M.B.A. core courses and 18 hours of concentration courses.

The exact content of your program depends on your academic background. Students without undergraduate business degrees generally are required to complete 16.5 hours in background courses. However, your undergraduate degree program is evaluated on an individual basis to ensure you're prepared to enroll in core courses.

Background courses

• ACCT 5020 Accumulation and Analysis of Accounting Data (1.5 hours)
• BCIS 5090 Introduction to Business Computer Information Systems (1.5 hours)
• BLAW 5050 Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Environment of Business (1.5 hours)
• DSCI 5010 Statistical Analysis (1.5 hours)
• ECON 5000 Economic Concepts (3 hours)
• FINA 5040 Introduction to Finance and Financial Mathematics (1.5 hours)
• MATH 1190 Business Calculus (3 hours)
• MGMT 5070 Management Issues (1.5 hours)
• MKTG 5000 Marketing Concepts (1.5 hours)

M.B.A. core courses

• ACCT 5130 Accounting for Management (3 hours)
• BUSI 5190 Administrative Strategy (3 hours)
• DSCI 5180 Introduction to Decision Making (3 hours)
• FINA 5170 Financial Management (3 hours)
• MGMT 5140 Organizational Behavior and Analysis (3 hours)
• MKTG 5150 Marketing Management (3 hours)

Concentration courses

ACCT 5250 Strategic Cost Management (3 hours)

The role and scope of the strategic cost management function (management accounting) within organizations is changing rapidly. New cost management tools provide organizations with information for decision making and control in an international marketplace. These tools directly incorporate organization strategy and focus on process understanding. The course typically includes readings, cases and discussion of planning and budgeting, activity based concepts, target costing, performance measurement, quality and environmental cost management. Specific topics vary. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 3270 or ACCT 5130.

DSCI 5210 Model-Based Decision Making (3 hours)

This course explains how model-based decision support systems aid managerial decision processes. Attention is paid to the how and why such a model is used in a support system environment. Course topics include the use of mathematical, statistical and business models that are embedded in decision support systems for dealing with structured and semi-structured decision problems. You identify opportunities and problems for which the use of modeling will enhance a decision maker's chance of success. Different type of models and decision structuring techniques are compared and contrasted, and appropriate techniques will be illustrated to analyze real-life situations.

Prerequisite(s): DSCI 5010 or equivalent.

LSCM 5300 Strategic Supply Chain Management (3 hours)

The distribution and logistics imperative is to achieve cost containment while delivering customer satisfaction. The course examines how channel integration fosters the coordination, systemization needed to maximize efficiency and produces the greatest net value for the customer. You explore how resource allocation and channel relationship decisions impact inventory, transportation, warehousing, purchasing, and packaging systems. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 5150 or consent of department.

LSCM 5560 Strategic Logistics Management (3 hours)

You analyze internal and environmental factors affecting logistical systems and operations. This includes the integration of transportation, inventory, facility location, informational flow and materials handling and packaging activities into a system for managing a physical flow of inbound and outbound products and materials in a global environment. The total-cost and total-system approaches are developed in relationship to planning and managing the logistical function in the organization. Prerequisite(s): LSCM 5150 or consent of department.

LSCM 5860 Advanced Supply Chain Management Problems (3 hours)

Examine decision-making tools and skills as they apply to logistics and supply chain management. Course stresses developing skills to analyze technical problems and their interrelationships within a company.

Prerequisite(s): LSCM 5300 and LSCM 5560.

MGMT 5280 Analysis and Design of Operations System (3 hours)

Course looks at the planning, analysis and design of operating systems, including functions such as forecasting, inventory management, facility location and layout, aggregate planning, scheduling and supply chain management. Appropriate decision making tools and processing are emphasized.

Internships

You must complete a semester internship with a company engaged in logistics and supply chain management. The required internship provides an opportunity for you to obtain logistics and supply chain work experience. The Dallas-Fort Worth region offers numerous internship opportunities. Students with logistics internships generally have a competitive advantage during the job search process. Many students receive a job offer from the firm where they intern.

Financial assistance

The Department of Marketing and Logistics frequently employs M.B.A. students as graduate assistants to the faculty. If selected, you are assigned to a faculty member to assist with administrative, teaching and/or research tasks. These part-time positions provide employment for 10 to 20 hours per week. An out-of-state tuition waiver may be granted for a 20-hour position. Graduate assistants are required to be enrolled in a minimum of three courses, for a load of 9 credit hours per semester.