Supply Chain Management

Course details

Integrated Logistics: Concepts & Principles

•  Integrated Logistics - the Underlying Principles
•  The Systems Approach
•  Logistical Functional Trade offs
•  Least Total Cost Analysis
•  Quantifying the Output of an Integrated Operation
•  Supply Chain Management: Concepts & Principles
•  Integrating the Value Chain Components
•  Importance of supply chain concept
•  Major flows in supply chains
•  Supply chain view and types
•  Identifying Relevant Costs
•  Strategies to Drive Supply Chain Improvements
•  Anticipatory versus Demand Driven Supply Chains
•  Case study

 Managing the Supply Chain

• Benefits of successfully managing a supply chain
• Distinguish between strategic or operational strategy statements of an organization
• Impact product design decisions have on the manufacturing and distribution processes throughout a supply chain
• Management objectives used to synchronize a supply chain
• Appropriate management techniques to effectively synchronize a supply chain in a given scenario
• Types of information technology and their primary function within a supply chain
• Evaluate an organization's business operations and recommend how to better utilize information technology in its supply chain
• Case study

Demand Management

• Importance of information generation & sharing in supply chains
• Sales and operational planning
• Forecast types
• Qualitative forecasting
• Quantitative forecasting
• Forecasting accuracy and reporting
• Forecasting case study

Planning for Supply and Demand

• Benefits of effectively planning for supply and demand within an organization's supply chain
• Associate an organization's planning activities to the steps for developing an effective supply chain strategy for satisfying customers
• Order Management a Supply Chain Environment
• Re-engineering the order flow process
• Why automated systems & transportation planning
• Improving order & transportation management
• Trade offs of reduced inventory & transportation costs
• The "Perfect Order" concept
• Case Study
• Strategic Importance of IT in Supply Chain
• Role of IT in supply chain integration
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• Customer relationship management system
• Supplier relationship management system
• Emerging IT technologies and their impact on supply chains

Supply Chain Strategy

•  Hierarchy of decision making in supply chains
• Managing uncertainty and risks in supply chains
• Product-process matrix
• Cost efficiency versus responsiveness
• Supply Chain Operating Reference (SCOR) Model
• How SCOR delivers value?
• Achieving supply chain superiority
• How SCOR works?
• SCOR metrics & levels
• Supply Management
• Bullwhip effect in supply chains
• Managing bullwhip in supply chains
•  Vendor managed inventory systems (VMI)
• Collaborative planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) principle
• Global visibility in supply chains
• Tactical considerations
• Total value perspective

•  Benefits of strong supply chain partnerships
•  Five factors that contribute to the bullwhip effect and business practices that represent each
•  Business practices that will implement each of the four information-sharing strategies
•  Supply chain partnership strategies and business practices that represent each

Source Management

• Role of sourcing in supply chains
• In-house versus out-source decision
• Supplier selection criteria
• Supplier selection model

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)

• How to manage Supply Chain risks
• Principles of SCRM
• Risk assessment process
• Risk treatment
• Continual monitoring of risks and their treatment
• Case stud