Supply Chain Management

This topic covers on the supply chain revolution; why integration creates value; generalised supply chain model; integrative management and supply chain process; and key issues in supply chain management.

Topic Outcomes

1. Discuss the goal of supply chain & explain the impact of supply chain decision on the success of a firm.

2. Identify the three key supply chain decision phases and explain the significance of each one.

3. Describe the cycle and push/pull views of a supply chain.

4. Classify the supply chain macro processes in a firm.

This topic covers on the designing distribution; networks and applications to e-business; network design in supply chain; and design global supply chain networks.

Topic Outcomes

1. Identify the key factors to be considered when designing a distribution network.

2. Understands how e-business has affected the design of distribution networks in different industry

3. Develop a framework for making supply chain network design and decisions.

This topic covers on managing economies of scale in supply chain: cycle inventory; managing uncertainty in supply chain: safety inventory; and use managerial levers that improve supply chain profitability through optimal service level.

Topic Outcomes

1. Balance the appropriate costs to choose the optimal amount of cycle inventory in a supply chain.

2. Identify factors that influence the required level of safety inventory.

3. Use managerial levers that improve supply chain profitability through optimal service level.

This topic covers on supply chain performance metrics and matching supply with demand.

Topic Outcomes

1. Explain why achieving strategic fit is critical to a company’s overall success.

2. Discuss the importance of expanding the scope of strategic fit across the supply chain.

3. Identify the components of a demand forecast

4. Analyse demand forecast to estimate forecast error.

This topic covers on a large-scale business strategy that brings as many links of the chain as possible into a closer working relationship with each other. The goal is to improve response time, production time, and reduce costs and waste. Every link in the chain benefits.

Topic Outcomes

1. Describe supply chain coordination, the bullwhip effect, and their impact on supply chain performance.

2. Identify obstacles to coordination in a supply chain

3. Discuss managerial levels that help achieve coordination in a supply chain.

This topic covers on a strategic alliance as an agreement between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon objectives needed while remaining independent organizations. A strategic alliance will usually fall short of a legal partnership entity, agency, or corporate affiliate relationship.

Topic Outcomes

1. Describe actions that facilitate the building of strategic partnerships and trust within a supply chain.

2. Understands the role of sourcing in a supply chain.

3. Discuss factors that affect the decision to outsource a supply chain function.

4. Structure successful auctions & negotiations

This topic highlights globalisation as an international issue and its relation to supply chain. It introduces the issues that arise in globalisation and also described the relationship between networked environment and supply chain.

Topic Outcomes

1. Define uncertainties that are particularly relevant when designing global supply chains.

2. Explain different strategies that may be used to mitigate risk in global supply chains.

3. Analyse global supply chain network design decisions in an uncertain environment.

This topic discusses the concept of customer value, customer relationship management and their relationship with the supply chain management. The discussion also covers the three major processes of customer value, which are distribution, production and resources, and its approaches to supply-chain management.

Topic Outcomes

1. Define Customer focused marketing.

2. Understands the role of Customer. service and customer satisfaction in Supply Chain Management.

3. Evaluate Customer success and value added service and developing customer accommodation strategy.

This topic discusses the present application of modern information technology application in supply chain management. Starting from the perspective of the role of Information Technology, this topic describes the application of information technology in supply chain management and its impact. This topic also elaborates the use of IT application systems through the presented case study.

Topic Outcomes

1. Understand the importance of information and information technology in supply chain.

2. Know at a high level how each supply chain driver uses information.

3. Understand the major applications of supply chain information technology and the processes that they enable.