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LOGISTICS & SCM

The course on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, taught by Prof. Vikas Thakur at IIT Kharagpur, is aimed at PG, PhD, and final year UG students in operations and supply chain management. It covers the evolution of logistics, supply chain design, and various industry scenarios, with a focus on practical case studies and modern technological advancements. The course includes topics such as green logistics, supply chain uncertainty, and sustainable supply chains over a 12-week plan.

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LOGISTICS & SCM

The course on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, taught by Prof. Vikas Thakur at IIT Kharagpur, is aimed at PG, PhD, and final year UG students in operations and supply chain management. It covers the evolution of logistics, supply chain design, and various industry scenarios, with a focus on practical case studies and modern technological advancements. The course includes topics such as green logistics, supply chain uncertainty, and sustainable supply chains over a 12-week plan.

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LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

PROF. VIKAS THAKUR


Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT Kharagpur

INTENDED AUDIENCE : PG, PhD and final year UG (Operations and supply chain management) students
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : All manufacturing industries who are directly involved with the manufacturing and delivering
products to the end customers, like: FMCG, the automobile sector, e-commerce businesses,
logistics partners, etc.

COURSE OUTLINE :

This course will enable the students to understand the origin of logistics and evolution of supply chain management concept across
product and services industries. The course will equip the students to design local as well as global supply chain networks in a dynamic
environment.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :

Prof. Vikas Thakur is Assistant Professor in Dept. of HSS, IIT Kharagpur. He has completed his PhD from DoMS, IIT Roorkee in the area of
operations and supply chain management. Before IIT KGP, he was working with NIT Rourkela. He has a total of appx 10 years of
teaching experience and a couple of years of industry experience also. He has guided two PhD scholars in the area of operations and
supply chain management. He has more than 24 research articles in leading journals of international repute. He has handled seven R&D
projects in different areas, like: healthcare waste management, municipal solid waste management, smart city mission, etc.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction to Logistics: Design and Management, Logistics Stakeholders and Modern Logistics Concepts, Manufacturing
Logistics: National and International Scenario, Storage and Warehousing, Logistics Services Providers, Outsourcing logistics, Case
studies.

Week 2: Industry Scenario: E-commerce Industry; International Logistics; International Market Penetration Strategies; Logistics Key
Performance Area (KPIs): Transportation, Supply, Distribution, Warehousing and Order management; Tools for Improving Logistics
Efficiency; Case studies.

Week 3: Reverse Logistics; Performance measures in reverse logistics; Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM); Key Technologies
in Green Logistics for Minimizing Carbon Emissions; Implementing green logistics; Lean Logistics; Principles of lean logistics; Case
studies.

Week 4: Trends in Logistics: Technological Advancements; Categories of Modern Logistics; Performance measures for modern logistics;
Logistics versus SCM; Logistical Components of the Supply Chain; Case studies.

Week 5: Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management (SCM); Supply Chain Decisions; Types of Supply Chain Models; Supply Chain (SC)
Operations: Manufacturing versus Service SC; Examples of Manufacturing and Service Sector; Principle Streams of Supply Chain: 1st
stream, 2nd stream, and 3rd stream, 25: Objectives of Supply Chain Networks; Factors influencing Supply Chain Network Decisions;
Framework of Network Design Decision; Case studies.

Week 6: Supply Chain Uncertainty and Processes; How to mitigate Supply Chain Uncertainty?; Supply Chain Operational Views: SCOR
Model; Cyclic View and Push/Pull View of Supply Chain; Supply Chain Model and Modelling Systems; Supply Chain Control Towers (Future
of SC Modelling); Supply Chain Drivers; Case studies.

Week 7: SC performance and Strategy: Impellers of Supply Chain and Value Chain, Supply Chain Strategy: Introduction;
Achieving Strategic Fit in the Supply Chain, Models for developing Supply Chain Strategy; Make-or-Buy Decisions; Case studies.
Week 8: Strategic sourcing; Supplier selection and management; Vendor selection and rating; Global sourcing; Coordination in Supply
Chain; SC Performance Measurement; Case study.

Week 9: Importance of distribution in SC; Decision-making in distribution networks design; Designing distribution networks and
Distribution Management; Facility Location Decisions, Case Studies.

Week 10: Forecasting Demand; Facility Capacity Planning: Sequencing and scheduling; Transportation decisions; Assignment of markets
to factories through assignment problem-solving algorithm, Case Studies.

Week 11: Inventory management; Designing Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains; Smart practices in SCM: 21st Century
Supply Chains; Supply chain 4.0 and its benefits; Financing Global Supply Chain; Supply Chain Finance, Case Studies.

Week 12: Sustainable SCs; Designing emergency supply chains; Assets Management in the Supply Chains; Future perspectives of SCM;
Case Studies.

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