Supply Chain Management Minor
Add an Operations Advantage to Your Major
Every organization depends on the movement of materials, information, services, and resources. A minor in Supply Chain Management can help you understand how those systems work—and how to make them faster, smarter, more resilient, and more responsible.
The Supply Chain Management minor complements majors across business, engineering, technology, agriculture, economics, analytics, and other fields where planning, sourcing, operations, and logistics influence performance.
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Why Add Supply Chain Management?
Understand Connected Systems
See how suppliers, operations, inventory, transportation, technology, and customers affect one another.
Make Better Decisions
Use planning, data, and performance measures to improve cost, service, quality, and responsiveness.
Lead Across Functions
Build the communication and problem-solving skills needed to work across teams, organizations, and industries.
Skills That Expand Your Career Options
Plan
- Demand and inventory planning
- Forecasting fundamentals
- Data-informed decisions
Source and Operate
- Procurement fundamentals
- Supplier relationships
- Process improvement
Move and Improve
- Logistics and distribution
- Risk and resilience
- Cross-functional leadership
Explore the Minor
What Will I Study?
Coursework may address supply chain principles, logistics, transportation, procurement, planning, operations, and related electives. Consult the official undergraduate bulletin for current requirements and approved course options.
How Can It Complement My Major?
The minor can add an operations perspective to fields such as engineering, analytics, information technology, agriculture, economics, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and public service. Your advisor can help you determine how it fits your goals and degree plan.
Where Can These Skills Be Used?
Supply chain skills support work in manufacturing, retail, health care, government, transportation, technology, consulting, financial services, and many other sectors. They are useful anywhere organizations must coordinate people, processes, resources, and service.
Review the Official Requirements
Minor requirements and course availability can change. Use the current undergraduate bulletin and work with your academic advisor to confirm eligibility, prerequisites, approved courses, and how the minor fits your degree plan.
Learn to Improve What Keeps Organizations Moving
Add planning, sourcing, logistics, analytics, and systems thinking to the strengths you are already building.
