Drivers and Metrics

What is a supply chain?

Some recent trends of supply chain

Role of analytics in supply chain

Supply chain strategies push-pull

Supply chain strategies efficiency-responsiveness

Understanding the customer and supply chain uncertainty

Tools/drivers for supply chain management

Framework for structuring drivers

Distribution network design

Parameters to decide the suitable distribution

Gravity location models

Network optimization for locating plants and warehouses simultaneously

Designing Global Supply Chain Network

Demand forecasting basics

Designing Global Supply Chain Network

Time series analysis for forecasting in supply chain

Forecasting errors; tracking signal; Sigma

Introduction to Python programming

Use of Python for forecasting

Aggregate planning in supply chain

Planning supply and demand in supply chain cost of overstocking and understocking

Planning supply and demand in the supply chain (optimization of inventory separately for two installations)

Role of aggregate planning in supply chain

Aggregate planning using linear programming

Responding to predictable variability in supply chain

Implementing sales and operations planning In practice

Lack of coordination in supply chain and its implications

Short term discounting

Lack of supply chain coordination and BULLWHIP

Managing uncertainties in supply chain

Cycle service level

Impact of supply uncertainties on safety inventory

Impact of aggression on safety inventory

Impact of coefficient of variation on the value of aggregation

Impact of product substitution on safety inventory

Determining the optimal level of product availability

Optimal CSL for single order products

Evaluating the optimal service level for seasonal Items

Determine the optimal level of product availability

How to improve supply chain profitability

Transportation in Supply Chain: Impact on profit and inventories

Future Issues in supply chain