Spring 2027

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Covers the design, management, and improvement of systems and processes for producing and delivering goods and services, emphasizing operations excellence and competitive advantage.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Baizhi SongTim Mcclurg

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Bob Batt, Amir Bahreini

The course had few homework assignments and barely any work outside of class. Students noted exams were straightforward, with one mentioning a page of notes was allowed.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the basics of firm strategy and determine how to align operational and strategic decisions.

  • Analyze a manufacturing or service process quantitatively and generate opportunities for improvement.

  • Manage quality statistically and describe strategies for maintaining and improving quality.

  • Determine effective inventory policies for various product and customer demand characteristics.

  • Develop sourcing and design strategies to mitigate risk in supply chains.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Not open to graduate/professional students

  • Not open to graduate/professional students
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Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMIR FARD BAHREINI is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BOB BATT is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JORDAN TONG is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TARIQ MUGHAL is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TIMOTHY MCCLURG is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

XIAOYANG LONG is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1150
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 1150
LEC 100Online Only0 / 500
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 1150
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 1150

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Bob Batt, Amir Bahreini

Instructors made the class engaging through games, interactive activities, and in-class group projects. One student noted the Canvas page was easy to navigate.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.18 GPA, 52.9% A/AB (n=348 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.29 GPA, 59.7% A/AB (n=390 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=455 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Bob Batt, Amir Bahreini

The course had few homework assignments and barely any work outside of class. Students noted exams were straightforward, with one mentioning a page of notes was allowed.

Past student reviews · Bob Batt

A student found the midterm difficult but the final easier, stating an A was doable with hard work despite some boring lectures.

Topics

  • Firm strategy and alignment of operational decisions
  • Quantitative analysis of manufacturing and service processes
  • Statistical quality management and improvement strategies
  • Inventory policy determination under varying demand conditions
  • Sourcing and design strategies for supply chain risk mitigation

Skills

  • Designing, managing, and improving operational systems and processes
  • Quantitative analysis of manufacturing or service processes
  • Statistical quality management
  • Determining inventory policies based on demand characteristics
  • Developing sourcing and design strategies for supply chain risk mitigation

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.20 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
OTM 300 · Spring 2027

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Model & dataset provenance 
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