Santa Clara University

OMIS 388: Supply Chain Outsourcing is being offered during the Winter 2009 quarter and will be taught by Professor Andy Tsay.  The course will consist of case discussions, guest speakers, role-play exercises, possibly site visits, 4-5 brief written assignments (mostly qualitative, unlike the assignments in OMIS 355 and 357), and student presentations.

Recent guest speakers have come from firms such as HP, Agilent, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Flextronics, and Technology Forecasters.

Recent student presentations have given the class eyewitness accounts of outsourcing practices regarding Apple iPhone, Safeway private label ice cream, Applied Materials solar device manufacturing equipment, Microsoft xBox, and the products of a number of smaller firms (lasers, solar panels, medical devices, etc.).

For more information, an introductory slideshow and tentative syllabus are available on the OMIS 388 webpage at: http://eres.scu.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=2216.