Spring 2027

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Graduate course covering operations and supply chain management, focusing on resource coordination for cost, quality, and service across organizations.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.75 GPA, 85.9% A/AB (n=163 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 86.0% A/AB (n=200 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=169 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Assess the alignment of operational capabilities with firm strategy and decisions made in other parts of the organization, and articulate how operations can deliver value to customers and the firm.

  • Understand key operations principles and tools, and how they can be used to support process improvement.

  • Evaluate an organization’s work processes to assess system capacity and responsiveness.

  • Understand the impact that variability has on process performance, and choose appropriate capacity levels to manage this impact.

  • Utilize appropriate models to identify good inventory ordering policies, and identify forces that drive inventory management decisions.

  • Work effectively in a team to solve complex operational problems.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
OTM 700 used by

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.75 GPA, 85.9% A/AB (n=163 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 86.0% A/AB (n=200 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 90.5% A/AB (n=169 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Capacity and materials management
  • Operations strategy
  • Process improvement
  • Variability and capacity management
  • Inventory management and ordering policies

Skills

  • Coordinate resources to improve cost, quality, and customer service.
  • Apply operations principles and tools for process improvement.
  • Use models to determine inventory ordering policies.
  • Evaluate work processes for capacity and responsiveness.

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 recent 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 · 0.07 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 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

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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