Bachelor of Business Administration (Supply Chain Management) (Honours)

Prepare for work in the fast-growing field of supply chain management by learning to find creative solutions that benefit an entire company.

What’s the difference between logistics and supply chain management?

If logistics are different parts of the body, the supply chain is the brain. In the fast-growing field of supply chain management, you’ll oversee and coordinate purchase of materials, production, storage and delivery of products. Master how to manage business endeavours, balance supply and demand and gain skills key to any organization's success.

Take a creative approach to resolving business issues

The slightest changes to a company's materials, inventory, transportation or marketing strategy can have huge ripple effects on the rest of the business. Learn how different departments depend on each other and use creative thinking to come up with solutions that benefit the entire company.

Enjoy collaborative and hands-on learning

Today's work world has changed. Top employability skills now include critical thinking, collaboration, leadership, communication and entrepreneurship. Our small class sizes and applied learning approach allow you to develop these skills in an interactive environment. You can then refine your new skills through a mandatory internship and optional co-op.

Creative problem solving for the modern business world

Complement your Supply Chain Management degree with a unique certificate that demonstrates your ability to think creatively! In addition to your core BBA courses, you’ll have the opportunity to take electives that will enable you to earn a Sheridan Board Undergraduate Certificate in Creativity and Creative Problem Solving. 50% of our June 2019 BBA graduates earned this optional certificate, which is endorsed by the State University of New York.

Courses in the certificate include:

• Creative Leadership and Problem Solving

• Applications of Creativity and Innovation

• Group Dynamics and Creative Problem Solving Facilitation

• Introduction to Studies in Creativity

• Principles of Creative Problem Solving

• Composition and Rhetoric.

Creative Learning Portfolio

In our Honours BBA programs, you'll build a Creative Learning Portfolio (CLP) that helps you on your self-discovery journey — and in the job market. The CLP is an electronic portfolio that explores your passions, purpose, career and personal goals. Featuring course reflections, learning experiences and work samples, your CLP will help you showcase your skills to potential employers.

Flexible learning options

Sheridan's Supply Chain Management degree offers flexible learning options that fit into your busy life. You can choose to study part-time while you work or take a full-time course load. With morning, afternoon and some evening classes available, we make learning around your schedule convenient and simple.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

• Communicate effectively in a variety of organizational settings.

• Evaluate complex qualitative and quantitative data to support strategic and operational decisions.

• Develop comprehensive strategic and tactical plans for an organization.

• Work independently and collaboratively in inter-  and/or multi-disciplinary and diverse environments.

• Use creative, critical and reflective thinking to address organizational opportunities and challenges.

• Apply problem solving and decision making frameworks that propose defensible solutions to organizational opportunities, challenges, change and risk.

• Demonstrate ethical and socially responsible behaviour.

• Integrate appropriate technologies in developing solutions to business opportunities and challenges.

• Build effective internal and external relationships using influencing, communication and consultative skills.

• Evaluate the dynamic of the global business environment from a competitive and economic perspective.

• Develop self-leadership strategies to enhance personal and professional effectiveness.

• Assess business processes relative to organizational goals.

• Perform robust research through the application of accepted applied research methodologies.

• Develop critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, written, and oral communication.

• Knowledge of society and culture, and skills relevant to civic engagement.

• Correlate the key responsibilities and interrelationships of all stakeholders in an organization’s supply chain.

• Appraise the importance of the design and redesign of a supply chain as key components of an organization’s strategic plan.

• Configure a supply chain for an organization from a global perspective that accounts for commercial, social and legal implications.

• Optimize the value to customers, markets, and other stakeholders through the application of standard frameworks and models, which encompass supply chain process analysis and innovation.

• Design coordinated and collaborative processes and activities among the business partners in a supply chain, leveraging current and emerging technologies.

• Evaluate the implications of globalization and/or outsourcing components of the value chain of an enterprise.

• Appraise the interdependence between financial, non-financial and operational metrics used in value chain analysis and their impact on business management processes.

• Discuss the impacts of geo-political and technological trends/developments on the value chain.

• Assess business plans and practices from the viewpoint of sustainability.

• Assess the risk associated with various supply chain practices.

Internship & Co-op

The Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) programs all include a one-semester internship where students will fulfill many of the program learning outcomes and become prepared for future employment. After the completion of a minimum of 60 credits, students may also apply to participate in the BBA Co-op program, which allows students to complete three additional work terms to a total of four work terms. Enrolment in the Co-op program is limited through an additional Co-op application process.

Co-op/Internship allows students to take ownership and responsibility for their own growth and development through practice in real-life employment environments. Our work terms are scenarios where students can apply their critical, creative, and reflective thinking in a way that maximizes their workplace experiences and preparedness for full-time employment after graduation.

Sheridan's BBA Co-op program has built-in flexibility for students to select their path and schedule for Co-op work terms, may lead to paid employment during the work term, and further supports students to develop their entrepreneurial thinking skills and capacity for responsible risk-taking in a complex workplace environment.

Students receive in-class and 1-on-1 career education support to help prepare for their Internship or Co-op work terms. The Co-op/Internship component is delivered by Sheridan's Co-operative Education Office, which facilitates over 1,800 Co-op/Internship work terms per year Sheridan-wide.