INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENTLUCKNOW

POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME

COURSE OUTLINE

PGP I TERM III
Supply Chain Management Academic Session: 2011-12

Instructors: ProIs. K N Singh/ Samir K. Srivastava / Sushil Kumar / Atanu Chaudhuri/ Adjunct Faculty
INTRODUCTION AND OB1ECTIVES
The course is designed with the Iollowing objectives:
1. To acquaint students with all relevant activities associated with the Supply Chain Management and
its role in business.
2. To Iamiliarize students with quantitative and computer based approaches to Material Planning &
Control, together with their practical applications and limitations.
3. To make students aware oI contemporary approaches to designing and managing Supply Chain
systems.
SOURCE BOOKS
1ext Book:
T1.Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl, Supplv Chain Management. Strategv, Planning & Operation,Latest
Edition, Pearson Education India.
T2.Jay Heizer and Barry Render, Operations Management, 9
th
Edition, Pearson Education India.
Reference Books:
1. D.N. Burt, D.W. Dobler, and S.L. Starling, World ClassSupplv Management, 7
th
Edition, Tata
McGraw-Hill, 2007.
2. R. Monczka, R. Trent, and R. HandIield, Purchaing and Supplv Chain Management, 3
rd
Edition,
Thomson India, 2007.
3. R.J. Tersine, Principles of Inventorv and Materials Management and Inventorv Svstems, 3
rd

Edition,North Holland, 1988.
4. Janat Shah, Supplv Chain Management, Pearson Education India, 2009
5. A K Dutta, Materials Management, 2
nd
Edition, Prentice Hall oI India, 1998.
6. R.H. Ballou and Samir K Srivastava, Business Logistics / Supplv Chain Management, 5
th
Edition,
Pearson Education India, 2008.
7. D. Simchi-Levi, P. Kaminsky, and E. Simchi-Levi, Designing and Managing the Supplv Chain, 2
nd

Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2005.
8. Arjan J. Weele, Purchaing and Supplv Chain Management, 4
th
Edition, Thomson Learning, 2005.

EVALUATION
Quizzes/Assignments: 30
Mid-Term Examination: 30
End-Term Examination:40
SESSION DETAILS

There will be twenty sessions each oI 90 minutes` duration.

Sr.
No.
Session
No.
Topics Reading
(Text Book)
1 1 Supply Chain Management: Introduction T1: Ch.1,3
T2: Ch.10
2 2 Co-ordination in Supply Chains: The Bullwhip EIIect T1:Ch. 17
T2: Ch. 10
3 3 Materials& Inventory Management; Introduction to Inventory
Concepts; Purpose, Costs
T2: Ch.11
4 4 Independent Demand Systems: Deterministic Models, EOQ T1: Ch.10
T2: Ch.11
5 5 Independent Demand Systems: EPQ, Discount Models T1: Ch.10
T2: Ch.11
6 6 Independent Demand Systems: Probabilistic Models T1: Ch.11
T2: Ch. 11
7 7 Inventory Control: Selective Inventory; Inventory Control
Policies
T2: Ch. 11
8 8 Dependent Demand Systems: Material Requirements Planning
(MRP)
T2: Ch. 13
9 9 MRP Characteristics and Lot Sizing Techniques T2: Ch. 13
10 10 Distribution Resource Planning (DRP) T2: Ch. 13
MID-TERM EXAMINATION
11 11 Logistics: Importance and Issues T1: Ch.13
T2: Ch. 10
12 12 Transportation Modes, Networks and TradeoIIs;
Transshipment
T1: Ch. 13
T2: Part 4-C
13-14 13-14 Supply Chain Network Design and Facility Location T1: Ch. 5
T2: Ch. 7
15 15 Sourcing in SCM: Make-Buy Decisions; Outsourcing/ OII-
shoring
T2: Ch.
10,11
T1: Ch. 14
16 16 Replenishment Approaches, Vendor Managed Inventory,

T1: Ch.4, 17
T2: Ch. 10S
17-18 17-18 Lean Operations and Supply Management T2: Ch. 15
19 19 Role oI InIormation and Technology in SCM, Procurement
through Electronic Commerce
T1: Ch. 16, 17
20 20 Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Management and
Contemporary Issues.
T2: Ch. 10

TERM-END EXAMINATION