The course objective is to discuss how to coordinate and integrate global logistics, purchasing, operations, and market channel strategies; apply the global supply chain management framework, exploring the implications of industry globalization drivers for supply chains; use globalEDGE, the expansive research tool created by the International Business Center at MSU to analyze how to retrieve relevant international business and trade data; and identify how to use globalEDGE's diagnostic tools - including Company Readiness to Export (CORE) and International Partner Selection (PARTNER), among others - to assess company strengths and weaknesses and to assist in making strategic market channel partnership decisions.