Overview

Supply chain management (SCM) is considered to provide a competitive advantage to the company. Matching supply with demand is a fundamental challenge for the companies. The concept of Supply Chain Management evolved out of this necessity to integrate all channel members so that goods and services are produced and distributed effective and efficient manner. This course shall help students to understand the role and importance of supply chain (SC) and issues involved there-in

Objectives

• To familiarize students about supply chain and supply chain management; to develop an understanding of the drivers of supply chain performance.
• To become familiar with analytical tools necessary to develop solutions for a variety of supply chain management & design problems.
• Understand the application and limitations of simple decision rules in the context of supply chain analysis in the real world.

Content

1. Value of Information in the Supply Chains through Simulation.
2. Bullwhip Effect: Causes & Mitigation Strategies in the Supply Chains.
3. Material Flows in the Supply Chains.
4. Logistics Management.
5. Digital Transformation in the Supply Chains.
6. Network Planning and Optimization.
7. Critical Chain and Theory of Constraints: Applications in the Supply Chain Management.
8. Vendor Management: Issues & Challenges in the Supply Chain.
9. Managing Stakeholders in the Supply Chains.

For Whom

Senior Mid-level managers who shape an organization’s supply chain management, Managers who want to improve existing systems, Consultants and Engineers who must justify the cost of improvement in supply chain control specialists.

Methodology

It will include appropriate mix of lectures, discussions, case – studies, exercises and group activities.

Enquiry and Registrations

Management Development Programmes (MDP) Office

Indian Institute of Management Indore
Prabandh Shikhar, Rau-Pithampur Road
Indore 453556, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA

Email : mdp@iimidr.ac.in
Tel. : +91-731-2439750, 2439752, 2439753, 24397544
Fax : +91-731-2439800