Unit 1

Introduction: Introduction to SCM-the complexity and key issues in SCM – Location strategy – facility location decisions – single facility and multiple location models.
Logistics: Logistics Network Configuration – data collection-model and data validation- solution techniques-network configuration DSS – Transport strategy – Service choices: single service and inter modal services – vehicle routing and scheduling models – traveling salesman problems – exact and heuristic methods.

Unit 2

Inventory: Inventory Management and risk pooling-managing inventory in the SC. Value of Information-bullwhip effect-lead time reduction.
Supply Chain Integration: Supply chain integration-distributed strategies-push versus pull systems. Distribution Requirements Planning – DRP and demand forecasting, DRP and master production scheduling. DRP techniques – time-phased order point – managing variations in DRP – safety stock determination-Strategic alliances-third party logistics-distribution integration.

Unit 3

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

Textbook(s)

• Simchi-Levi,D.,Kaminsky,P.,Simchi-Levi,E., Shankar,R., ‘Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Cases’, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.

Reference(s)

• Christopher, M., ‘Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strtegies for reducing Cost and Improving Service’, PH, 1999.
• Ballou, M., ‘Business logistics / Supply chain management’, Pearson Education, 2003.
• Vollmann, T.E., ‘Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management’, 5e, McGraw Hill, 2005.

Evaluation Pattern

Objectives

• Understand the complexity and key issues in supply chain management.
• Describe logistics networks, distribution planning, routing design and scheduling models.
• Familiarize dynamics of supply chain and the role of information in supply chain.
• Understand the issues related to strategic alliances, global supply chain management, procurement and outsourcing strategies.

Course Outcomes

• CO1: Analyze the complexity and key issues in supply chain management
• CO2: Evaluate single and multiple facility location problems, logistics network configuration, vehicle routing and scheduling models
• CO3: Analyze inventory management models and dynamics of the supply chain
• CO4: Develop the appropriate supply chain through distribution requirement planning and strategic alliances
• CO5: Identify the issues in global supply chain management, procurement and outsourcing strategies

CO – PO Mapping