Lead Innovation in Operations Management
It is crucial for companies to minimize cost, waste, and delivery time in their supply chain if they want to remain competitive and profitable—that’s where you come in as a supply chain professional! UW-Stout's Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Supply Chain Management blends engineering, operations, and business courses with real-world management experience to prepare you for a lucrative career leading companies to increased profitability and maximum efficiency. Our industry-experienced faculty will train you to improve operations and business performance by teaching you to:
- Analyze markets and financial performance to enhance operational decisions.
- Design, manage, and optimize critical components of supply chain systems, organization, and operations.
- Improve financial and operational performance by integrating engineering and manufacturing practices into global business strategies.
- Apply ethical business, management, engineering, operations, and process principles to emerging challenges.
UW-Stout's B.S. Supply Chain Management is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
100% of Graduates Are Employed or Continuing Education.
Career-Defining Curriculum
The majority of your courses will feature industry-sponsored projects leading up to a hands-on internship or co-op experience. As a supply chain management student, your studies will start with a variety of introductory business courses to build your management learning base.
You'll then progress to the program-specific courses including procurement, logistics, accounting cost modeling, and supply chain modeling.
- Enterprise Requirements Planning
- Facility Planning
- International Supply Chain Modeling
- Negotiation & Supply Chain Contracts
- Principles of Logistics
- Procurement, Sourcing & SCM
- Project Management
- Quality Tools
- Quantitative Methods Production/Operations Management
- Resource Plan & Materials Management
- Resource Planning Practicum
- Supply Chain Design I
- Supply Chain Design II
You’ll graduate ready to begin your management career and improve your company's performance at the lowest cost, and at the highest quality and safety within the supply chain. The average starting salary of UW-Stout supply chain management graduates is $67,000.
"My experience in the Supply Chain Management program at UW-Stout was nothing short of incredible. The creativity, critical thinking skills, and professionalism really prepared me for the real world. If I had to sum it up in one word, it would be ‘growth."
-- Destiny VojtikB.S. Supply Chain Management
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Advanced & Global Technologies
Supply chain management is all about ensuring the right products, get to the right place, at the right time, and we'll train you on the industry-relevant software to prepare you to do more on day one of your career.
- Arena Simulation Software (Process Modeling & Supply Chain Simulation)
- Microsoft Project (Project Management)
- Microsoft SQL Server (Database Management)
- Microsoft Visio (Process Mapping & Flowcharting)
- Minitab (Statistical Analysis)
- SAP (ERP Enterprise Resource Planning)
- SolidWorks (Computer-Aided Design)
Professional Internship Placements in Supply Chain Management
Take your education into industry and earn while you learn through UW-Stout’s award-winning Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP) and other placements. Unlike traditional internships, our professional paid, and pro bono credit-earning experiences connect you with leaders in your field, including Fortune 500 employers, impactful non-profits and government agencies, to ensure you’re set up for success long before you graduate. More than a third of Stout students accept positions after graduation with their internship employer.
Recent Internship Employers
- 3M
- Bobcat Company
- Great Northern Corporation
- Johnson Controls
- Polaris Industries
- Sargento Foods Inc.
- Snap-On Inc.
- The Toro Company
Select Internship Position Titles
- Distribution Logistics Intern
- Fulfillment Process Intern
- Material Planning & Sourcing Intern
- Planning Intern
- Sourcing Intern
- Supply Chain & Logistics Intern
- Supply Chain Intern
- Supply Chain Operations
Design I & II Capstone Projects
In the Design I and II senior capstone courses, you will use your problem-solving and critical thinking skills to identify the root causes of a failing business. Similar to your internship or co-op the capstone project is a real-world experience unmatched by any other business or supply chain management program. You'll work with an industry advisory group to build a cost model and figure out how to solve the company's problems.
Wide-Ranging Career Opportunities
Modern supply chain management is about more than just where and when. It'll be your job to identify and build more effective supply chain operations, to protect the company's reputation and long-term sustainability. We'll teach you the skills necessary to affect product and service quality, delivery, costs, customer experience, and profitability.
"What's unique about this program is you get a taste of everything. You're not going to just be focused on supply chain or just focused on business. You turn out to be a very well-rounded individual after you graduate because you'll have expertise in a little bit of everything."
B.S. Supply Chain Management
New First-Year Students
- There are no additional requirements for new first-year students.
Transfer Students - Spring 2023
- Earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher from the last institution attended
and - completion of 54 or more credits of required courses.
Students who do not meet the academic requirements above will be admitted as Pre-Supply Chain Management and may qualify for the Supply Chain Management major by completing the appropriate courses at UW-Stout.
Transfer Students - Fall 2023+
- There are no additional requirements for new transfer students. Students accepted into the university will be admitted directly into the major.
Advisory Committee Members
Jeff | Asproth | Director, Supply Chain | 3M |
Carole Jean | Baier | Program Associate | UW-Stout |
Bryan | Barts | Career Services | UW-Stout |
Ashley | Coffey | Account Development | Advanced Molding Technologies |
Dan | Freedman | Dean, CSTEMM | UW-Stout |
Erica | Frokjer | Supply Chain | Colder |
John | Guillen | Procurement Management | Ellsworth Adhesives |
Gene | Gutman | Associate Professor; Program Director | UW-Stout |
Bill | Hendrickson | CEO (ret.); Board of Directors | Lineage Logistics |
Mullins | Kenny | Assistant Professor; Chair, Business Department | UW-Stout |
Rich | Krahn | Supply Chain Executive (Ret.) | Accenture |
Paula | Post | Director, Corporate Purchasing | Uline |
Bob | Seidel | Vice President, Supply Chain | Ahern |
Renee | Surdick | Associate Dean; Director, School of Management | UW-Stout |
Jerry | Terbeville | Supply Chain Executive (Ret.) | |
Jerid | Winkler | Vice President, Supply Chain | Ahern |
Tracking of Key Student Performance Measure
The B.S. in Supply Chain Management Student Achievement report has enrollment, final exam, employment and retention data. The Student Learning Assessment Results report is an analysis of student learning and performance standards based on specific competency attainment.