• Advance your knowledge and skills in the supply chain management industry
• Formalize your supply chain education and obtain a recognized credential
• Build your knowledge of supply chain management functional areas
• Acquire professional development that can be applied towards a supply chain designation

• Complete the 9 required courses (351 hours)
• Can be completed within 1.5 years up to a maximum of 4 years

• Credits earned in this certificate may be applied towards admission in the Mount Royal University’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

All courses are offered online

Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Gain an overview of logistics and the supply chain process in determining the competitive success of an organization. Learn about the management of value process, transportation, purchasing, inventory, demand forecasting, materials and warehouse, enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain information systems, production and operations, e-commerce, customer and supplier relations, quality assurance, outsourcing, third-party logistics, and global productions.
Required textbook: Designing & Managing the Supply Chain Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, Second or Third Edition. Simchi-Levi, D; Kaminshy, P; Simchi-Levi, available at the BookStore.
Note: Students who have successfully completed the entire Supply Chain Certificate Extension Certificate are exempt from this course.

Principles of Quality Management
Learn about planning, organizing and controlling for quality, as well as the human aspects of quality. Understand quality assurance and purchasing, ISO standards, and continuous improvement and reengineering.
Prerequisite:  XSCM 20100 (LSCM 2201) Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management.  Students who have successfully completed the entire Supply Chain Management Extension Certificate have met the prerequisite for this course.
Required textbook: Quality & Performance Excellence Management, Organization, and Strategy,Evans, James R. 8th Edition, available at the BookStore.

Introduction to Physical Distribution
Explore modes of transportation and intermodalism, intermediate agencies, and distribution methods such as warehousing, materials handling and unitization.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20102 (LSCM 2201) Intro to Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Note: Students who have successfully completed the Supply Chain Management Extension Certificate have met the prerequisite for this course. 
Required textbook: Transportation Systems: A Canadian Perspective, CITT 2012 Edition, available at the BookStore.

Fundamentals of Purchasing
Examine the impacts of technology, supply chain management and business strategy on purchasing in today's business environment. Learn about procurement planning and procedures, and supplier relations.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20100 (LSCM 2201) Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Note: Students who have successfully completed the entire  Supply Chain Management Extension Certificate are exempt from this course.
Required textbook: Purchasing and Supply Management, Leenders, Johnson, Flynn, Fearon, 15th Edition, available at the BookStore.

Physical Distribution and Logistics
Gain a working knowledge of physical distribution and logistics, as well as addressing the specific areas of contracts, loss and damage, dangerous goods, marine insurance, Canada Customs, international trade, and the transportation regulatory environment.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20100 (LSCM 2201) Intro to Logistics and Supply Chain Management and XSCM 20104 (LSCM 2301) Introduction to Physical Distribution.
Required Textbook: Logistics Processes: A Canadian Perspective. CITT 2012 Edition, available at the BookStore.

Inventory and Warehouse Management
Learn about inventory management, including inventory functions, demand forecasting, aggregate and production planning, master production and materials requirements planning, and lean or JIT inventory management. In warehouse management, gain knowledge of facility layout, retrieval technologies, performance benchmarking, safety, security and risk management.
Prerequisite:  XSCM 20102 (LSCM 3303) Fundamentals of Purchasing or XSCM 20105 (LSCM 3305) Physical Distribution and Logistics. 
Note: Students who have completed the entire Supply Chain Management Extension Certificate have met the prerequisite for this course.
Required Textbook: Introduction to Materials Management, J.R.T. Arnold, S.N. Chapman, L.M. Clive Eighth Edition, available at the BookStore.

Business Negotiations / Project Management
Learn about interest-based bargaining in a global environment and acquire the input/output tools and techniques necessary to take a project from inception to completion. Discover how to operate project management software for budgeting and scheduling purposes.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20100 ( LSCM 2201) Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Note: Students who have successfully completed the entire Supply Chain Management Extension Certificate have met the prerequisite for this course.
Required Textbooks: Getting to Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, R. Fisher and W. Ury,
e-book Project Management Jump Start, Third Edition, Kim Heldman
available through the Mount Royal Ebrary.

Supply Chain Decision Making
Apply evaluation and judgment processes to decision making, together with skills from the foundation disciplines in prerequisite courses, to formulate innovative business solutions for integrated case study scenarios.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20104 (LSCM 3402) Inventory and Warehouse Management
Required Textbooks: Designing & Managing the Supply Chain Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, Second or Third Edition. Simchi-Levi, D; Kaminshy, P; Simchi-Levi,

Integrated Business Solutions
Identify, assess and use the best available software to facilitate enhanced performance within an overall enterprise-based systems environment. Be exposed to a menu of commonly used software applications including Enterprise Resource Planning tools, transactional e-commerce packages, inventory management systems, materials supply and purchasing tools.
Prerequisite: XSCM 20105 (LSCM 3305) Physical Distribution and Logistics and XSCM 20104 ( LSCM 3402) Inventory and Warehouse Management.
Required Textbook: Integrated Business Solutions. This is a custom publication available through the BookStore in electronic format only.