Syllabus of National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T) MBA - MB774 Supply Chain Management

1. Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, Supply chain networks, Integrated supply chain planning, Decision phases in s supply chain, process view of a supply chain, supply chain flows, Overview of supply chain models and modeling systems, Supply chain planning: Strategic, operational and tactical, Understanding supply chain through process mapping and process flow chart.

2. Supply chain strategies, achieving strategic fit, value chain, Supply chain drivers and obstacles, Strategic Alliances and Outsourcing, purchasing aspects of supply chain, Supply chain performance measurement: The balanced score card approach, Performance Metrics. Planning demand and supply: Demand forecasting in supply chain, Aggregate planning in supply chain, Predictable variability.

3. Planning and managing inventories: Introduction to Supply Chain Inventory Management. Inventory theory models: Economic Order Quantity Models, Reorder Point Models and Multiechelon Inventory Systems, Relevant deterministic and stochastic inventory models and Vendor managed inventory models.

4. Distribution Management: Role of transportation in a supply chain - direct shipment, warehousing, cross-docking; push vs. pull systems; transportation decisions (mode selection, fleet size), market channel structure, vehicle routing problem. Facilities decisions in a supply chain. Mathematical foundations of distribution management, Supply chain facility layout and capacity planning,

5. Strategic Cost Management in Supply Chain. The financial impacts, Volume leveraging and cross docking, global logistics and material positioning, global supplier development, target pricing, cost management enablers, Measuring service levels in supply chains, Customer Satisfaction/Value/Profitability/Differential Advantage.

Primary Textbook:

1. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Case Studies, Second Edition, David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York, 2003.

2. Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindel. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Prentice Hall of India, 2002.

Recommended Readings:

The Wall Street Journal

Business Week

Journal of Business Logistics

Supply Chain Management Review

Harvard Business Review

Supply Chain Management by Sunil Chopra & Peter Meindl, Prentice Hall Publisher, 2001

Introduction to Supply Chain Management by Robert Handfield & Ernest Nichols, Prentice hall Publishers, 1999.

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