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Management Science Department

GSCOM Program Highlights


The mission of the Moore School’s Global Supply Chain & Operations Management (GSCOM) undergraduate program is to produce students with state-of-the-art knowledge and practical applied experiences in twin competencies of "operations and business process improvement" and "global supply chain design, analysis, and improvement". 

We prepare our students for specific GSCOM careers in global manufacturing firms in production, purchasing, quality control, distribution and supply chain management; in service firms for general operations management and logistics/supply chain management; and in consulting firms as business process and quality improvement consultants. Even while pursuing other majors in accounting, finance, international business, marketing, or MIS as primary careers, GSCOM knowledge and skills provide valuable complementary competencies. The GSCOM program consists of cutting-edge courses in lean systems, six-sigma methodologies, and business reengineering process improvement approaches, service operations management, strategic sourcing, logistics and distribution, and supply chain modeling and optimization. The program focuses on not just learning but applying these skills through a capstone consulting project course in which student teams tackle a "live" operations, business process, or supply chain improvement project with an actual organization, thus preparing them for six-sigma green-belt certifications. GSCOM professors are not only accomplished scholars in the GSCOM field, but most have also executed significant process improvement and supply chain consulting engagements with global firms.

A salient strength of the program is the "Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management" (GSCPM), a consortium of major organizations with whom the program partners conduct value-added consulting projects, which not only provide the capstone experience to students, but also benefit the partner firms. Current partners of the GSCPM Center are MeadWestvaco, Pfizer, Sonoco, and Westinghouse Electric. Efforts are underway to expand the consortium to include firms from the banking, hospital, hotel, and other service sectors. A focused initiative has been launched to identify internships with global firms like GE, Pfizer, Cooper Tools, MeadWestvaco, Sonoco, and Bank of America. Internship and full-time career opportunities are also being identified through faculty networks and USC career services in leading organizations within South Carolina and beyond.

The GSCOM program offers many excellence recognition opportunities to students including significant merit scholarships (up to two at $2,500 each, and up to 15 at $1,000 each), best capstone consulting project awards ($500), and student paper competition awards. It is attracting high-performing career-minded students who want to be at the cutting-edge of attractive and value-added careers in the increasingly complex, global marketplace.