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