Supply Chain and Information Management

Phone: 843.953.2278
Chen-Heui Chou, Chair

About the Department

The Department of Supply Chain and Information Management (SCIM) is responsible for the supply chain management major, global logistics and transportation minor, information management minor, and global logistics and transportation concentration.

All faculty members have Ph.D. degrees and/or research in the fields of supply chain management, operations management, management information systems, decision science, industrial engineering, or computer information systems. SCIM has leveraged the skills of adjunct professors with expertise in global logistics, management information systems, and production and operations management respectively to support teaching coursework in those areas.

The department desires to see that its students be leaders in the fields of supply chain and information management, and emphasizes rigorous applied coursework with industry partnerships, fluency with the latest technology, and knowledge about how to provide structure to uncertain and often dynamic working environments.

Supply chain management is an area of professional study that continues to benefit from high demand in industry, particularly within this state and community.  In fact, a recent U.S. News and World Report career guide predicts that supply and value chain management will be one of the 20 hottest career paths in the 21st century.  

In addition to supply chain management, information management represents an area of extraordinary demand, particularly when combined with in-depth knowledge of a functional area. Information management is considered a body of knowledge and skills that enable business professionals to sense, collect, organize, process and maintain information for business decision making. These foundational capabilities enable business professionals-regardless of their functional area roles-to innovate, problem-solve, plan, and manage in the 21st century.

Concentration/Minor in Global Logistics and Transportation

Kent Gourdin, Director, Global Logistics and Transportation Program (843.953.5327)

The Global Logistics and Transportation Program offers both an academic curriculum to undergraduates and a professional development course to individuals working in the field. The undergraduate component is a minor made up of six-courses (18 credit hours) that students begin in the fall of their Junior year. The highlight of the minor is a nine-day Rotterdam Travel Study conducted as a component of the Global Logistics Systems Management course during Spring Break in the senior year. In addition, the BMW Logistics Program offers students the opportunity to earn the cost of their travel study by completing a suite of professional-development and career enhancement activities over the course of their Junior and Senior years.

Majors

• Supply Chain Management, B.S. ​ 

Minors

• Global Logistics and Transportation Minor   
• Information Management Minor