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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

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
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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