Prerequisites topics
Operations Analysis, probability & Statistics, Optimisation
Contents:
- Components of a supply chain. Supply chain structure. Decisions in Supply chains.
- Facility location / allocation models. Facility location under uncertainty
- Inventory management under multi-player settings, risk pooling
- Global supply chains. Sourcing decisions. Measures of effectiveness of supply chain performance.
- Transport of commodities. Freight modes, Economic batch size of movement, hub and spoke networks, First mile, line haul and last mile of movement. Multi-modal freight transportation, Vehicle planning and routing. Crew planning.
- Pricing and Revenue Management
- Information feedbacks and Bullwhip
- Sustainable Supply Chains: Reverse flows, reuse, recycle, remanufacture etc.
References
- Chopra and Meindl, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations, 6th ed, 2016
- Janat Shah, Supply Chain Management, Text & Cases, 2016.
- Simchi-Levi, D. P. Kaminski and E. Simchi-Levi (2003), Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, (2nd Edition) Irwin, McGraw-Hill.
- G. Raghuram and N. Rangaraj [Editors] (2000) Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts, Macmillan, New Delhi.
- Shapiro J. (2001), Modelling the Supply Chain, Duxbury Thomson Learning
- Narayan Rangaraj, G. Raghuram, Mandyam Srinivasan, Supply Chain Management, McGrawHill, 2008