October 05, 2019

Supply chain management is a rapidly growing employment sector, and according to a 2016 Peerless Research Group (PRG)/Logistics Management survey, the average annual salary for occupations in the area of supply chain management is $105,675.

Mizzou Engineering’s Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department and Trulaske College of Business’ Department of Marketing recently teamed up on an undergraduate Global Supply Chain Management certificate. Now, they’re expanding it to the graduate level.

Supply chain management is a rapidly growing employment sector, and according to a 2016 Peerless Research Group (PRG)/Logistics Management survey, the average annual salary for occupations in the area of supply chain management is $105,675.

According to the description of the certificate program, “(Supply chain management) draws heavily upon expertise in operations management, strategic management, marketing, logistics, transportation, information technology, and decision sciences.” Both certificate programs allow Mizzou to build upon its strengths in both business and industrial engineering.

Expanding the certificate to graduate students allows current Business and Engineering students to lead the way in this emerging field. The graduate requirements — which include required core classes both in industrial engineering and business management, then one analytics track course and one supply chain/operations track course for a total of 12 credits.

“With a 12-credit-hour certificate, students can easily make it a part of their degree program if they wish,” MU IMSE Professor Jim Noble said. “The courses that we’ve incorporated within it will allow for people to earn the stand-alone certificate as well.”

IMSE recently began offering a master’s degree in industrial engineering online. The plan is to also offer the supply chain management certificate online in the future, allowing professionals interested in adding a new skillset to take full advantage of career enhancing certification.

“This will broaden the opportunities to get professional learners who want to add this sort of certification to boost their résumés, as well,” Noble said.