Course

Unit I

Introduction: Introduction to SCM-the complexity and key issues in SCM. Location strategy – facility location decisions – single facility and multiple location models.Inventory strategy: Inventory Management and risk pooling- managing inventory in the SC.

Logistics: Logistics Network Configuration – data collection – data aggregation – Inventory Positioning and Logistics Coordination, Traveling salesman problems – exact and heuristic methods, Vehicle routing and scheduling – guidelines – problems.

Unit II

The value of information – bullwhip effect -information sharing and incentives – lead time reduction. Supply chain integration: Supply chain integration-distributed strategies-push versus pull systems. Strategic alliances-third party logistics-retailer–supplier partnerships – distribution integration.

Unit III

Issues in SCM: Procurement and outsourcing strategies – framework of eprocurement. International issues in SCM- regional differences in logistics. Coordinated product and supply chain design-customer value and SCM.

Advances in supply chain: Logistics 4.0, Digital supply chains, Sustainable supply chains, Urban logistics, Humanitarian logistics.

Course Objectives

• To expose the complexities and key issues in supply chain
• To develop location models, logistics networks, traveling salesman and vehicle routing and scheduling
• To analyze the inventory models, strategic alliances, role of information and integration in supply
• To understand the issues related to global supply chains, procurement and outsourcing, product chain design and customer value.
• To understand advanced topics in supply chain related to Industry 0 and sustainability.

Course Outcomes

CO-PO mapping

Skills Acquired

Analyze key issues in supply chain management and develop models and solutions

1. David Simchi-Levi and PhlipKamainsky, “Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Cases”, McGraw Hill, 2002.
2. Martin Christopher, “Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service”, Prentice Hall, 1999.
3. Ronald Ballou, “Business Logistics / Supply Chain Management”, Pearson Education, 2003.
4. Thomas Vollmann, Willan L. Bery, Robert Jacobs, F., and David Clay Bark, “Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management”, Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2005.