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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf Study, Virtual Classroom, Campus Based/Physical ClassroomVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

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    yesIIT RoorkeeImaginXP

    The Syllabus

    Core Supply Chain processes
    • Customer Management Processes
    • Demand Management Processes (Balances the customers’ requirements with the firm’s capabilities and capacity (S&OP)
    • Order Fulfillment Processes (Integrates manufacturing, logistics, and marketing plans)
    • Manufacturing Flow Management Processes
    • Supplier Relationship Management Processes
    • New Product Development Processes
    • Reverse Logistics Processes
    Supply Chain Structure Design
    • Push
    • Pull
    • Postponement
    Supply Chain complexity
    • Alignment with Demand and Supply Uncertainty
    • Bullwhip effect, reducing variability and buffering against variability
    • Handling uncertainty
    • Tools for identifying causes of variability and improving supply chain capability
    Evaluang supply chain network strategy
    • Capacity, technology, translating supply chain decisions into financial terms – Total Landed Cost, Total Cost of Ownership, Discounted cash flow analysis
    Informaon flow design
    • Working with suppliers: procurement, auctions, risk sharing
    • Coordinating manufacturing: production planning, BOM, MRP/DRP
    • Collaborating with customers: aggregate planning, S&OP, bullwhip
    Risk & Resilience Development in Supply Chains
    • Causes and Classification of Disruptions 
    • Responses and Preparation
    • Resilience through redundancy, flexibility, trade-off curve between recovery and mitigation strategies

    • Compeve and Supply Chain strategies 
    • To achieve strategic fit 
    • To fix the scope of strategic fit and its expansion 
    • Challenges in sustaining the strategic fit

    • Impellers of Supply chain 
    • Drivers and their framework for supply chain performance 
    • Facilities
    • Inventory
    • Transportation
    • Information 
    • Sourcing
    • Pricing
    • Infrastructure 

    • Use of Excel to perform a variety of data analysis tasks like data wrangling and data mining 
    • Create various charts and plots in excel 
    • Visualize data using Python libraries 
    • Develop working knowledge of Python language for analyzing data using Python libraries like Pandas and Numpy 
    • Describe data ecosystem and compose queries to access data in cloud database using SQL and Python from jupyter notebooks

    • Role of Distribution in the Supply Chain 
    • Models for facility location and capacity allocation 
    • Factors influencing distribution network design 
    • Framework for network design decisions 
    • The impact of uncertainty on network design 

    • Impact of Globalization on SC networks 
    • The offshoring Decision: Total cost 
    • Discounted Cash Flows 
    • Use of Decision Tree for evaluating network designs 
    • Evaluation of Global Supply Chain Design decisions under uncertainty leading to onshore or offshore

    • Role of forecasting in the Supply Chain 
    • Time Series Forecasting 
    • Characteristics of Forecasts 
    • Forecasting Error Measures 
    • Components of Forecast and forecasting Methods 
    • Selecting smoothing constant

    • Role of aggregate planning in a supply chain 
    • Use of Rough Master production schedule 
    • Aggregate planning strategies 
    • Strategies for managing supply and demand 
    • Aggregate planning using linear programming (Use of Excel, TORA etc.)

    • Lack of supply chain coordination and the bullwhip effect 
    • Managerial levers to achieve coordination 
    • Effect on performance 
    • Continuous replenishment and VMI 
    • CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment) 
    • Obstacles to coordination in a supply chain

    • Economic Order Quantity models- sensitivity, non-instantaneous lead me, quantity discounts, concept of back orders 
    • Single period inventory models – critical rao, expected profit, expected units short 
    • Continuous review policy(S,Q) model & Periodic review policy (R,S) model using performance metrics (cycle service level and item fill rate) and stockout cost metrics (cost per stockout event and cost per item short) 
    • Special issues- exchange curves, grouping like items, local on pooling 
    • Aggregating multiple products in a single order 
    • Managing multiechelon Cycle Inventory 
    • Short term discounting 

    • Concept of Safety Inventory 
    • Factors affecting the level of safety inventory 
    • To determine the appropriate level of safety inventory 
    • Impact of supply uncertainty on safety inventory

    • The importance of the level of product availability 
    • Factors affecting the optimal level of product availability 
    • Seeing product availability for multiple products under capacity constraints 
    • Optimizing availability of MRO inventories 
    • Calculations related to expected profit from an order, expected overstock from an order, expected understock from an order 
    • Simulation using spreadsheets 

    • Mode of transportation and their performance characteristics 
    • Trade-off in transportation design 
    • Transportation infrastructure and policies 
    • Tailored transportation 
    • Role of IT in transportation 
    • Design options for a transportation network

    • Role of sourcing in a supply chain 
    • Supplier selection- auctions and negotiations 
    • In House or outsourced? 
    • Sharing risk and reward in the supply Chain 
    • 3pl 
    • Impact of incentives in outsourcing 
    • Total cost of ownership 
    • Designing a sourcing portfolio

    • Role of pricing and revenue management in a supply chain 
    • Pricing and revenue management for multiple customer segments 
    • Pricing and revenue management for seasonal demand 
    • Pricing and revenue management for bulk and spot contracts

    • Introduction of blockchain 
    • Criteria for evaluation and adoption 
    • Benefits of blockchain in supply chain 
    • Key levers for blockchain in supply chain 

    • Role of sustainability in a supply chain 
    • Use of six sigma in supply chain 
    • Closed-loop supply chain 
    • How to make supply chain flexible and agile 
    • Application of lean concepts in supply chain

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