IBS Hyderabad

Academic Year: 2022-23

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Area: Operations and Information Technology
Sub-Area: Supply Chain Management
Course Code: SHOP461
Program: BBA
Course Title: Supply Chain Management
Faculty: DR. J. PRINCE VIJAI
Office No. E-114
Email: [email protected]
Contact No. +91-92931-26856
Consultation Hours: Thursday/Friday, 12:30 to 1:20pm

Subject Course Objectives Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:
▪ Analyze and interpret the role
The objective of this course is to provide of supply chain in different
an understanding of the importance of business entities
supply chain management in different ▪ Demonstrate the ability to
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT kinds of industries. The course provides
an integrated view of purchasing,
manage demand and supply
in a supply chain
production, warehousing, distribution, ▪ Demonstrate the ability to
and other logistics functions. use critical thinking, analysis
and synthesis for effective
decision making
Session
Topic Teaching Objectives Learning Outcomes Text Book Chapter
Plan
To explain students: Students will:
▪ The necessity of supply ▪ Understand the nature of supply
Supply chain and supply
chain management chains and trace the historical
1-2 chain management Chapter-1
▪ The importance of perspective, leading to their
(2 Sessions)
understanding supply chain development and growth
management ▪ Discuss the goal of supply chain
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 ▪ The various sources of and explain the impact of supply
information needed to chain decisions on the success
understand and analyze a of the firm
company

Understanding the supply Students will:

chain – objectives, process To: ▪ Identify the three key supply
view of a supply chain - push, ▪ Discuss the decision phase in chain decision phases
3-5 pull, push/pull, decision supply chain management ▪ Understand significance of each Chapter-1
phases in a supply chain ▪ Discuss the various process decision phase
view of supply chain. ▪ gain the cycle and push/pull
(3 Sessions) view in supply chain

Students will:
▪ Explain why achieving strategic
To: fit is critical to a company’s
▪ Describe the supply chain overall success
Developing the supply chain strategy. ▪ Learn to describe how a
strategy and achieving ▪ Understand how company company achieve strategic fit
6-8 strategic fit adopt the strategy against between its supply chain Chapter-2
their competitor strategy and its competitive
(3 Sessions) ▪ Understand how company strategy
achieve strategy fit in supply ▪ Learn to describe the major
chain challenges that must be
overcome to manage a supply
chain successfully
Students will:
To: ▪ Identify the major impellers of
▪ Discuss the role of each supply chain developments
Drivers of supply chain
driver in supply chain ▪ Understand the concept of
performance
9-10 ▪ Understand how each driver underlying the philosophy of Chapter-3
play a strategic fit between supply chain management
(2 Sessions)
supply chain strategy and ▪ Identify the major driver of
competitive strategy supply chain

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 To:
▪ Explain the role of Students will:
transportation and related ▪ Learn to distinguish
decision in supply chain transportation, inventory and
Transportation, Inventory and ▪ Explain how inventory play a information and their impact on
Information important role in supply supply chain strategy
11-12 Chapter-3
chain and how managers use ▪ Learn how supply chain
(2 Sessions) inventory to drive supply manager take inventory related
chain decision to create more
▪ Discuss the role of responsive and more efficient
information and related supply chains
decision in supply chain
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Students will:
To:
Facility decisions – network ▪ Understand the role of network
▪ Understand the factor
design in a supply chain; design in a supply chain
influencing supply chain
factors affecting network ▪ Develop a framework for
14-16 network design decision Chapter-5
design decisions making network design decision
▪ Introduce how to develop a
▪ Use optimization for facility
framework for making
(3 Sessions) location and capacity allocations
network decisions
decisions

To: Students will:

Aggregate planning in a
▪ Discuss the role of aggregate ▪ Understand the importance of
supply chain – the role of
planning in supply chain aggregate planning as a supply
17-18 aggregate planning Chapter-8
▪ Discuss the aggregate chain strategy
planner’s main objective in ▪ Describe the information needed
(2 Sessions)
supply chain to produce an aggregate plan

To:
Students will:
▪ Discuss the objective of
▪ Understand the aggregate
Aggregate planning problem aggregate plan to satisfy
planning problem through
and strategies demand in a way that
19-20 example Chapter-8
maximize the profit
▪ Understand the which types of
(2 Sessions) ▪ Explain the various type of
strategy applied in different
aggregate planning strategy
situation within the organization

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 Students will:
To:
Planning supply and demand ▪ Be able to distinguish the use of
▪ Discuss the role of planning
in a supply chain – sales and operations planning to
supply and demand in a
managing predictable maximize profitability when
21-22 supply chain Chapter-9
variability; managing supply faced with predictable
▪ Explain how managing
variability in a supply chain
supply improves the
(2 Sessions) ▪ Compare the demand and
organizations performance
supply in supply chain
To:
Managing demand;
▪ Explain the importance of Students will:
implementing solutions to
predictable variability in ▪ Manage demand to improve
predictable variability in
23-24 supply chain synchronization in a supply Chapter-9
practice
▪ Examine organization chain in the face of predictable
practices for managing variability
(2 sessions)
demand and supply
25 --- NCP-2/Mid-Term Exam (20% Weightage) ---

Students will:
To:
Coordination in a supply ▪ Learn to describe supply chain
▪ Discuss how coordination
chain – lack of coordination coordination and the bullwhip
plays an important role in
and bullwhip effect; effect of effect and their impact on
supply chain
lack of coordination on supply chain performance
26-28 ▪ Discuss the major obstacle to Chapter-10
performance; obstacles to ▪ Identify obstacles to
coordination in supply chain.
coordination in a supply chain coordination in a supply chain
▪ Explain how performance
▪ Learn to discuss managerial
will degrade due to the lack
(3 Sessions) levers that help achieve
of coordination
coordination in supply chain
To:
▪ Discuss the importance of
Managing economies of scale Students will:
cycle inventory in supply
in a supply chain: cycle ▪ Understand the impact of
chain
inventory – role of cycle quantity discounts on lot size
29-30 ▪ Explain estimation of cycle Chapter-11
inventory in a supply chain and cycle inventory
inventory related cost in
▪ Understand the trade promotions
practice
(2 Sessions) on lot size and cycle inventory

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 To:
▪ Discuss the appropriate costs
Students will:
to choose the optimal lot size
Economies of scale to exploit ▪ Devise appropriate discounting
and cycle inventory in a
fixed costs; economies of scale schemes for a supply chain
supply chain
31-33 to exploit quantity discount ▪ Identify managerial levers that Chapter-11
▪ Explain the impact of
reduce lot size and cycle
quantity discount in cycle
(3 Sessions) inventory in a supply chain
inventory
without increasing cost
▪ Discuss economic order
quantity
Managing uncertainty in a
To:
supply chain: safety inventory
▪ Describe how to manage
– the role of safety inventory Students will:
uncertainty in a supply chain
34-35 in a supply chain impact of ▪ Understand the role of safety Chapter-12
▪ Discuss the safety inventory
supply uncertainty on safety inventory in a supply chain
in supply chain and its
inventory
importance
(2 Sessions)

Students will:
Determining appropriate level ▪ Learn to identify the factors that
To:
of safety inventory; impact of influence the required level of
▪ Discuss the factor of
replenishment policies on safety inventory
appropriate level of safety
safety inventory; estimating ▪ Learn to describe different
36-38 inventory Chapter-12
and managing safety inventory measures of product availability
▪ Explain supply chain
in practice ▪ Be able to utilize managerial
uncertainty on safety
levers available to lower safety
inventory
(3 Sessions) inventory and improve product
availability
To:
▪ Discuss the role of Students will:
Information Technology in a
information technology ▪ Understand the importance of
supply chain – the role and
▪ Explain how information information and information
importance of information
39-40 provides the basis for supply technology in a supply chain
technology in a supply chain Chapter-A
chain manager to take ▪ Discuss the supply chain macro
(Available online)
decision process in supply chain IT
▪ Discuss supply chain IT framework
(2 Sessions)
framework
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 Students will:
Use of information in a supply
▪ Know at a high level how each
chain; information technology To:
supply chain driver uses
as an enabler; supply chain ▪ Explain how organizations
information Chapter-A
41-43 information technology in uses the information and
▪ Understand the major (Available online)
practice information technology to
applications of supply chain
improve the efficiency
information technology and the
(3 Sessions)
processes that they enable
To make understand: Students will:
SCOR Model APICS SCOR v12.0 Framework
44-45 ▪ How this model is applicable ▪ Understand the SCOR model in
(2 Sessions) (Available online)
in cross industry a supply chain

46-48 --- NCP-3/Project Presentations (15% Weightage) ---

▪ Chopra, Sunil, Meindl, Peter and Kalra, V.D. (2019), Supply Chain
Prescribed Text Book:
Management – Strategy, Planning and Operation, Pearson (7/e).
1. Simchi-Levi, D, Kaminsky, P, Simchi-Levi, E and Shankar, R (2008),
Designing and Managing the Supply Chain – Concepts, Strategies and
Case Studies, Tata McGraw-Hill Publication, New Delhi.
2. Jeremy Shapiro, (2007) Modelling the Supply Chain, 2/e, Cengage
Learning.
3. S G Deshmukh, R P Mohanty, (2007), Essential of Supply Chain
Management, Jaico Publishing House.
4. Raghuram, G and Rangaraj, N (2006), Logistic and Supply Chain
Reference Readings: Management: Cases and Concepts, Mcmillan Publication, New Delhi
5. Hugos, Michael (2003), Essentials of Supply Chain Management, John
Wiley & Sons.
6. S G Deshmukh, R P Mohanty (2007), Essential of Supply Chain
Management, Jaico Publishing House.
7. Raghuram, G and Rangaraj, N (2006), Logistic and Supply Chain
Management: Cases and Concepts, Mcmillan Publication, New Delhi.
8. Hugos, Michael (2003), Essentials of Supply Chain Management, John
Wiley & Sons.

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 Expectations from Students:

a. Students must report to the respective sessions well before the announced time. Latecomers will not be permitted to join the class after the scheduled time. If
late, the attendance for that session will be marked as absent.
b. Student is also expected to read the chapter indicated in the course plan as the faculty directs. Read the assigned material well prior to the class discussion.
c. In class discussions, the student is expected to participate actively and contribute to individual and group learning. Evaluation of class participation is based
on active participation.
d. Evaluation is a continuous process at IBS. Every student needs to be aware of the timelines given in the section below. Absence from these evaluations will
mean non awarding of marks in that particular component.
e. Wherever applicable, group assignments require each student to contribute to the group effort. This enhances group effectiveness and leads to greater
appreciation of working in groups.

Evaluation Timelines:

Keeping in line with continuous evaluation at IBS the following schedules have been drawn. Students are expected to go through the dates/sessions mentioned and
prepare accordingly.
Pre-Mid-Term Evaluation 20% (15% for NCP-1/Test-1/MCQs + 5% for CP-1)
Mid-Term Evaluation 20% (NCP-2/Mid-Term)
Post Mid-Term Evaluation 20% (15% for NCP-3/Project + 5% for CP-2)
End-Term Evaluation 40%

Brief Profile of the Faculty Member:

Dr. J. Prince Vijai is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the ICFAI Business School (IBS), Hyderabad. He teaches courses related to
operations and supply chain management. His research focuses on capacity investment and flexibility, where he studies simple and effective capacity
investment policies for manufacturing, service, and supply chain systems. His research has appeared in leading management journals, including
OPSEARCH, Benchmarking: An International Journal and International Journal of Applied Management Science and further, serves as ad-hoc reviewer
for several academic journals. You may further find about his research at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prince-Vijai

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