Supply Chain Management

Supply chain executives strive for building more efficient, responsive and sustainable supply chain in increasingly volatile environment. Managing supply chain has become more challenging due to complex supply network, globalization, increased compliances, product proliferations, rising customer expectations and rapid technological development. In the era of dashboards and analytical tools, this programme provides opportunities to practitioners better manage their supply chains. This course aims to cover the strategic, planning and operational aspects involved in supply chain management in order to improve the supply chain performance. This course will focus on a range of analytical tools (modelling, computation and analysis) that support decision making in supply chain management

Objectives

• To understand supply chain framework and issues involved in Supply Chain
• To understand supply chain strategy, alignment and performance metrics and best practices.
• To understand and implement planning and analytical tools used in Supply Chain
• To appreciate benefits of integration, co-ordination and collaborations in Supply Chain
• To understand the contemporary developments in Supply Chain like mass customization, green supply chain, sustainable supply chain and the implementation issues.

Content

The programme shall cover the following topics:

• Supply chain strategy: Formulation and implementation
• Beer Game Simulation: Bullwhip effect and its remedies
• Managing supply chain for e-commerce
• Supply chain analytics
• Performance metrics and scorecards
• Sustainable supply chain
• Supply chain co-ordination
• Managing Inventories
• Managing uncertainty
• Supply chain contracts
• Network and logistics planning
• Best Practices and Implementation issues