Bachelor of Science in Management with a Concentration in Supply Chain Management online

Build your proficiency in supply chain tools and techniques with an innovative curriculum that integrates AI technology and business concepts.

Apply by: 8/17/25
Start class: 9/8/25

Program Overview

Become an asset to any company with the online bachelor’s in supply chain management

$372.75 Per Credit Hour
120* Credit Hours

Join an in-demand career path with formalized training through the online Bachelor of Science in Management with a Concentration in Supply Chain Management program from William Paterson University online. This AACSB-accredited program emphasizes current industry trends so you can develop the highly valued logistical, strategic, and tactical knowledge you need for success in the growing supply chain field.

Gain skills in inventory optimization, cloud computing, and data mining. Expand your experience with key software such as Excel, Python, R, Tableau, SQL, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. Learn methods for addressing risk management, ethical sourcing, and redundancy issues. Plus, you will strengthen your understanding of business leadership and corporate success. Customize your learning by choosing electives aligned with your career goals.

As a graduate of this program, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of supply chain management, including logistics, global operations, and inventory control
  • Apply data-driven analytical tools, AI, and emerging technologies to mitigate risks, optimize supply chain performance, and solve business problems
  • Evaluate the effects of globalization, and incorporate ethical and sustainable practices into supply chain strategies
  • Demonstrate teamwork, negotiation, and communication skills for the effective management of supply chain relationships and organizational efficiency
  • Showcase a competitive skillset and readiness for professional roles in supply chain management
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of supply chain management, including logistics, global operations, and inventory control
  • Apply data-driven analytical tools, AI, and emerging technologies to mitigate risks, optimize supply chain performance, and solve business problems
  • Evaluate the effects of globalization, and incorporate ethical and sustainable practices into supply chain strategies
  • Demonstrate teamwork, negotiation, and communication skills for the effective management of supply chain relationships and organizational efficiency
  • Showcase a competitive skillset and readiness for professional roles in supply chain management

Also available:

William Paterson University offers a variety of specialized bachelor's degrees. Check out all of our online undergraduate programs. In addition, we have minors available to help you meet your undergraduate credit requirements by integrating coursework that enriches your educational experience.

$372.75 Per Credit Hour
120 Credit Hours
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Tuition

Here are the details of our affordable online tuition

Online education programs from William Paterson University offer affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition. All fees are included in the total tuition.

Tuition breakdown:

$372.75 Per Credit Hour

Calendar

Create your budget for your supply chain management bachelor’s degree program

William Paterson University online programs are delivered in an accelerated format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year.

TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Fall I9/8/258/17/258/20/258/29/259/3/2510/26/257 weeks
Fall II11/3/2510/12/2510/15/2510/24/2510/29/2512/21/257 weeks

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8/17/25 Apply Date
9/8/25 Class Starts

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Admissions

Get started on your online bachelor’s in supply chain management degree

At WP, we've streamlined the admission process to help you get started quickly. Please note all requirements for admission to the online BS in Management – Supply Chain Managementprogram, including required documents and where to send them.

The requirements include:

  • Online application
  • Transcripts from all colleges and universities previously attended
  • Minimum 2.0 GPA
  • Must be at least four years post high school

You must meet the following requirements for admission to this BS online program:

  • Complete online application and submit $50 application fee
  • Cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale
  • Students must be four years post-high school or two years post-high school and have earned 60 or more college credits
  • Official transcripts from each college attended or high school transcript if no prior college experience
    o Applicants must be at least two years post-high school to enroll in our WP Online accelerated programs

Official transcripts, test scores, and other documents should be sent from the granting institutions to:

Email address: [email protected]

Mail address:

Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Services
Morrison Hall 102
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470

Courses

Course specifics for the online supply chain management bachelor’s program

For the BS in Management – Supply Chain Management online, you must complete 120 credits (36 credit hours of core business courses, 81 credit hours of required courses, and 3 credits of elective courses).

Note: Transfer credit is given for all earned credits except in such cases where the earned grade does not meet major program requirements. There is no limit to the number of credits that may be transferred. A total of 30 credits used to complete a William Paterson University degree must be William Paterson University credits.

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of algebraic and transcendental functions, including their properties and graphs with a focus on applications to business. Topics include algebraic fundamentals, equations and inequalities, polynomial functions and graphs, exponential and logarithmic functions and mathematics of finance.

Students must complete the following courses. 

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introductory course in the fundamental principles of accounting, the theory of debit and credit, account classification, preparation of working papers, adjusting, closing, reversing entries, and preparation of basic financial statements. Use of spreadsheet and word processing computer applications.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces basic concepts of cost accounting and the use of accounting as a decision-making tool for management.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course discusses the basic economic principles related to the behavior of individual agents. the main topics include the following: 1) Opportunity Cost, 2) Demand and supply analysis, 3) consumer theory, 4) Production and costs, 5) Profit maximization, 6) Market structure ( perfect comptetition , monopoly, monoplistic competition, and oligopoly), 7) Market failure and the distribution of income ad 8) International trade and exchange rates.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Included in this course are the topics of descriptive statistics (collection and presentation of data, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, dispersion, and skewness); sampling and probability, and an introduction to statistical inference.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a continuation of ECON 2100 Business Statistics I. Topics covered include one-sample and two-sample tests of hypothesis, ANOVA, simple and multiple linear regression, and nonparametric methods such as Chi-square applications and the analysis of ranked data. Optional topics are index numbers, time series and forecasting, quality control, and an introduction to decision theory.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the basic principles and practices of the financial management of private business corporations. The course provides an operational framework for financial analysis, planning, and forecasting, along with profit analysis and financial control for today’s business world.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Designed to familiarize students with the legal system with particular emphasis on the court system and administrative agents. Also includes examination of substantive areas such as antitrust, bankruptcy, corporate law, partnership, and securities regulations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces basic principles, policies, problems, and successful methods of business organization and management. Emphasizes management’s ability to analyze, plan, coordinate, and control the varied activities of production, personnel, finance, and marketing. Also examines social responsibility and environmental factors affecting business policy and operation.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to increase awareness of values, ethics, beliefs and attitudes, and how they relate to issues of sustainability. It will pay special attention to the manner in which corporations can become agents of injustice and inequality in society, and conversely, how they can be transformed by individual actors and by institutional reforms. This course will also analyze sustainability at the institutional level, focusing on socially and structurally imbedded nature of corporate actions. This is a writing intensive course.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Techniques and methods employed by managers to plan and control manufacturing and other operating systems are emphasized. Application of quantitative methods and various analytical techniques are stressed for operating system design, planning, control, problem solutions, productivity, inventory, scheduling, quality and capacity management, control system development, new technology evaluation, and transportation problems.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This three credit course represents a case study approach to business decision-making that integrates functional and organizational disciplines. It examines a series of complex industrial situations in depth to determine, in each instance, the strategy and policies a firm should follow for its long-run survival. Some sections of this course are writing intensive.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Major emphasis on techniques for solving business problems, the development of marketing policies, and the sale of consumer and industrial products. Various marketing decisions are examined with respect to product planning, channels of distribution, promotion activity, selling and sales management, pricing, and international marketing.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an overview of information systems at different levels of an organization. It addresses current technology, its impact on organizations, and its management. The evolving role of information systems and related technology within a business organization is also studied. The learning process is enhanced by means of critically studying and analyzing, with the support of information technologies and real business cases.

Students must complete the following courses. 

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Introduces basic principles, policies, problems, and successful methods of business organization and management. Emphasizes management’s ability to analyze, plan, coordinate, and control the varied activities of production, personnel, finance, and marketing. Also examines social responsibility and environmental factors affecting business policy and operation.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Provides a framework for the analysis of international management problems. Defines the nature of the international, multi-national, and transnational company. Also examines the evolution of these types of enterprises, develops a model of a multinational firm in a dynamic global setting, and provides a bridge among the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and international management.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores, in depth, selected theoretical aspects of management theories and/or the major areas within management. Each student is expected to take a major area and prepare a paper that may include decision-making processes, strategy formulation, perceptions of environmental factors, managerial values, organizational crises, and other current management topics. Students have the opportunity to write a paper based on their studies of real-world situations.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Explores the basic concepts and key critical skills involved in between the organizational representative and the client, including the psychology of bargaining. Applies negotiation strategies and tactics in a variety of business environments, with an emphasis on collaborative and competitive styles of negotiating. Seminar-style course with multiple bargaining simulations throughout the semester.

Students must take the following courses. 

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an in-depth analysis of the importance of the supply chain in business. The course will address the key processes of the supply chain. Students will learn about the elements of supply chain and the impact these elements have on organizational competitiveness. This course will provide students with conceptual tools and analytics that improve their ability to plan and implement an effective supply chain. Some of the topics covered are optimization, cloud computing, big data, and data mining. While this course reviews the various tools and modeling aspects of supply chain management, the main focus will instead be on the qualitative side of supply chain analytics.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the theory, techniques, and management of physical supply and distribution. Emphasis is placed on organization, route structure, equipment management, scheduling, control operations, inventory management, and other macro- and micro-logistics. Students must deal with U.S. government regulations, industry trends and relations, technological development, and corporate strategy.

Selection 1 of the following courses.

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores business analytics concepts and applications aimed at improving business performance. The course focuses on the three facts of analytics: Descriptive Analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive Analytics. An integral part of business analytics is the use of IT tools to support the collection and analysis of data an converting it into the actionable knowledge in the context of organization decision-making and problem solving. As such the students will learn problem analysis and formulation, data modeling, and the application of various business analytics and spreadsheet tools. Prerequisite(s): MATH 1170 , ECON 2100 , MGT 2000
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course serves as a hands-on introduction to basic statistical concepts and the ways to communicate them to the target audience. In the modern days, people and businesses encounter colossal amounts of different types of data, which is very problematic to process, understand, and utilize. This class introduces quantitative basics of inferential statistics and further supplements it with visualization techniques in order to shows students how to understand, learn, and present the data. Visualization introduces design principles for creating meaningful displays of information to support effective business decision making. Students will learn how create interactive visualizations and use them to demonstrate or provide insight into a problem, situation, or phenomenon.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An in-depth analysis of the planning and control elements of any organization. Includes student development of plans and control systems, and development of student familiarity with some important planning and control techniques. Involves both systems and behavioral aspects of the work involved in planning and control activities.

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