MI4019 Supply Chain Management Syllabus:
MI4019 Supply Chain Management Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To help understand the importance of and major decisions in supply chain management for gaining competitive advantage.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Supply Chain – Fundamentals , Evolution, Role in Economy , Importance, Decision Phases, Enablers & Drivers of Supply Chain Performance; Supply chain strategy; Supply Chain Performance Measures.
UNIT II SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK
Distribution Network Design – Role in supply chain, Influencing factors, design options, online sales and distribution network, Distribution Strategies; Network Design in supply chain – Role, influencing factors, framework for network design, Impact of uncertainty on Network Design.
UNIT III PLANNING DEMAND, INVENTORY AND SUPPLY
Managing supply chain cycle inventory and safety inventory – Uncertainty in the supply chain , Analyzing impact of supplychain redesign on the inventory, Risk Pooling, Managing inventory for short life-cycle products, multiple item -multiple location inventory management; Pricing and Revenue Management.
UNIT IV LOGISTICS
Transportation – Role, Modes and their characteristics, infrastructure and policies, transport documentation, design options, trade-offs in transportation design, intermodal transportation. Logistics outsourcing – catalysts, benefits, value proposition. 3PL, 4PL, 5PL, 6PL; International Logistics – objectives, importance in global economy, Characteristics of global supply chains, Incoterms.
UNIT V SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATIONS
Supply Chain Integration, Building partnership and trust in SC, Value of Information: Bullwhip effect – effective forecasting – coordinating the supply chain SC restructuring – SC mapping – SC process restructuring, Postpone the point of differentiation – IT in supply chain – Agile supply chains – Reverse supply chain – Agro supply chains- digital supply chain
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
1. Understanding of supply chain fundamentals
2. Ability to design supply chain networks to enhance supply chain performance
3. Ability to plan demand based on inventory and supply
4. Understanding the role of logistics in supply chain performance
5. Awareness of innovations for sustainable supply chains
REFERENCES :
1. Janat Shah, Supply Chain Management – Text and Cases, Pearson Education, 2009.
2. Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl, Supply Chain Management-Strategy Planning and Operation, PHI Learning / Pearson Education, Sixth edition, 2015.
3. Ballou Ronald H, Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Pearson Education, 5th Edition, 2007.
4. David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, Edith Simchi-Levi, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Cases, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2005.
5. Altekar Rahul V, Supply Chain Management-Concept and Cases, PHI, 2005.
6. Shapiro Jeremy F, Modeling the Supply Chain, Cengage, Second Reprint , 2002.
7. Joel D. Wisner, G. Keong Leong, Keah-Choon Tan, Principles of Supply Chain Management- A Balanced Approach, South-Western, Cengage, 2012.