Unbox Your Future
UW-Stout's ACBSP-accredited Master of Science (M.S.) in Operations & Supply Management (OSM) prepares you for advanced leadership roles in global business and technical environments. Operations, supply chain and logistics management are areas that need managers who can apply both existing and emerging technologies to plan, organize and implement effective systems.
100% of Graduates Are Employed or Continuing Education Within 6 Months
Career-Defining Curriculum
There is an increasing need for dedicated operations and supply chain management expertise in global industry. Rise above the competition with a specialized master's degree in dedicated management disciplines from our industry-respected program.
Program Overview
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Program Highlights
- Practice-Oriented Approach: Tailored leadership training with technical emphases, such as Industry 4.0, automation, SAP ERP, and Lean manufacturing.
- Industry-Applied Curriculum: Work on job-related projects in courses under the supervision of faculty with industry experience and knowledge.
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UW-Stout's M.S. Operations & Supply Management is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
Industry-Experienced Faculty Instruction
At UW-Stout, building close relationships with our industry-experienced and academically accomplished faculty will play a key role in your graduate education and your career. From Six Sigma, PMP, and Lean credentials to real-world expertise in business management, ethics, and organizational leadership, our instructors will ensure you develop distinction in your field. Learn more about your future instructors!
Industry Focus & Value
The M.S. Operations & Supply Management program focuses on the goal of three wins:
- Students receive high-quality, graduate education to advance their careers.
- Industry benefits from course projects that students complete to improve operations performance.
- UW-Stout fulfills its mission of supporting industry and workforce needs.
Student projects have generated more than $4.5 million in savings for the students’ companies and organizations. That’s the value the M.S. Operations & Supply Management program provides to the industry.
“It is very important for M.S. Operations & Supply Management students to apply what they’ve learned in the program to improve the operation performances for their organization. The program strongly focuses on business impact. All of our faculty have professional industry backgrounds, some of them have multiple professional certifications and are still working with industry in some types of consulting capacity. This allows the program to stay on top and deliver content that meets industry needs.”
~ David Ding, Associate Dean
Professional Internships in Operations & Supply Management
Take your education into the field with professional internships and other placements that benefit you and industry. Whether you put your internship to work for your employer or use it to connect with leaders in your field, these opportunities are all about impact and establishing your leadership long before you graduate.
Recent Internship Employers
- Banner Engineering
- Cascades Tissue Group
- Imperial Supplies, LLC
- Phillips-Medsize
- Voith Group
Select Internship Positions
- Lean Six Sigma Intern
- Quality Engineer
- Safety & Operations Intern
- Sales Account Manager, End Users
- Senior Manager, Logistics & Trade Compliance
Graduate Ready to Solve Tomorrow’s Challenges
Each year, Stout operations and supply management graduates routinely beat out applicants for competitive positions and outperforming their peers for career advancement with leading employers. Why? Everything you learn at Stout enhances the skills you use on the job. Where others list their education, you’ll be able to identify your experience.
Select Recent Employers
- Andersen Corporation
- Banner Engineering
- Bayer
- FUJIFILM
- Johnsonville, LLC
- Komatsu
- MacIver Institute
- Nestle Health Science
- Ocean Spray
- Organic Valley
- Oshkosh Corporation
- Phillips-Medisize
- Polaris Inc.
- Rockwell Automation
- Sargento Foods Inc.
- Terumo Medical Corporation
General UW-Stout Graduate School Application
All prospective graduate students at UW-Stout must follow a standard application process through our Graduate School. Beyond that, each graduate program has specific requirements that must be met to be successfully admitted to the program:
Program-Specific Application Requirements
- Curriculum Vita/Resume
- A statement of intent which describes the candidate's academic history, employment history and professional goals
Please include your statement of intent and attach your curriculum vita/resume within the UW System application or submit it to the UW-Stout Graduate Studies Collection Form.
Please know that the MSOSM Program Selection Committee will favor applicants who have a minimum overall undergraduate GPA of 2.75 as well as academic and workplace experience which align with the broad demands of a profession within the operations and supply management industry.
Upon completion of the MS OSM program, students will be able to:
- Recognize ethical issues, propose solutions to an ethical dilemma and use ethical reasoning to justify the solutions.
- Implement leadership skills in leading others engaged in operations and supply chain management.
- Demonstrate awareness of the current U.S. legal and global regulatory business environment.
- Apply decision-making techniques, both quantitative and qualitative analysis, to operation and supply management issues.
- Construct and communicate a logical, relevant, and professional quantitative and qualitative assessment of business information in an effective manner.
Graduates of our program have gone on to hold a variety of leadership positions:
- Project manager
- Quality manager
- Supply chain manager
- Materials manager
- Industrial production manager
- Six Sigma black or green belt
- Continuous improvement leader
- Industrial engineer/technologist
- Manufacturing engineer/technologist
- Supply chain analyst
- Information systems manager
Advisory Committee Members
| First Name | Last Name | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eli | Aba | Associate Professor; Program Director | UW-Stout |
| Zaid | Abdullah, CACP ('25) | Procurement Engineer | Automation Displays, Inc. (ADi) |
| M. Affan | Badar | Professor | Indiana State University |
| Avanthika | Ciddagouni | Student | UW-Stout |
| David | Ding | Associate Dean; Director, Robert F. Cervenka School of Engineering | UW-Stout |
| John | Dzissah | Professor; Chair, Operations & Management Department | UW-Stout |
| Greg | Fisher ('77) | Executive Vice President | Reliability Mgmt. Group (RMG) |
| Dan | Freedman | Dean, CSTEMM | UW-Stout |
| Shannen | Jochim | Adult & Student Services Coordinator, Stout Online | UW-Stout |
| Chris | Lani | Director, Logistics & Trade Compliance | Imperial Supplies |
| Charles | Lehman ('97) | Director, Operations | Retired |
| Andy | Ring | Continuous Improvement Manager | Signicast LLC |
| Dipesh | Sharma | Student | UW-Stout |
| Renee | Surdick | Associate Dean, School of Management | UW-Stout |
Tracking of Key Student Performance Measure
The M.S. Operations & Supply Management Student Achievement report has enrollment, final exam, employment and retention data. The Student Learning Assessment Results report is an analysis of student learning and performance standards based on specific competency attainment.
