The Graduate Logistics Management (GLM) program provides students with the opportunity to learn and exercise state-of-the-art management knowledge and tools to solve defense acquisition and logistics problems. The curriculum includes courses in statistics, operations research, organization and management theory, inventory systems, transportation and strategic mobility, maintenance and production management, financial management, and economics. In addition, students have the opportunity to pursue a systems view of logistics management, or to specialize in a specific area such as transportation management.
All graduates of the GLM program shall be equipped to:
* Use effective oral and written communications.
* Understand and apply the concepts, methods, and tools related to planning, directing, and controlling resources (people, material, equipment, and funds) in a logistics management context.
* Analyze the impacts of changes in the defense transportation network on other functional areas within the total defense logistics system
* Understand and apply acquisition logistics and integrated logistics support concepts to affect weapon system life cycles.
* Comprehend the role of the general logistician in the DoD and Air Force for planning, acquiring, distributing, supplying, and maintaining weapon systems.
* Methodically conduct and present research to solve problems and support decisions.
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