Faculty of Business Studies

Bangladesh University of Professionals

SCM 301 Principles of Supply Chain Management
Credit Hour: 3.00
Batch: BBA 03

Course Outline
WEEK
1

Date

LECTURE

TOPIC

EVENT

22-6-2014

Lecture-1

24-6-2014

Lecture-2

29-6-2014

Lecture-3

01-7-2014

Lecture-4

06-7-2014

Lecture-5

CLASS
TEST 1

08-7-2014

Lecture-6

13-7-2014

Lecture-7

15-7-2014

Lecture-8

Introduction
Definition of supply chain and SC management,
background and present status of SCM
Objective of SC , conflicting objectives,
importance of SC
Problems and challenges of SCM, key issues of
SCM
Decision Phase in a SC, process views of SC
Logistic network, Characteristic of data, data
aggregation with guide lines
Warehouse capacities and criteria of a potential
warehouse, Warehouse cost
Capacitated plan location model, gravity location
model

20-7-2014

Lecture-9

22-7-2014

Lecture-10

10-8-2014

Lecture-11

12-8-2014

Lecture-12

17-8-2014

Lecture-13

19-8-2014

Lecture-14

24-8-2014

Lecture-15

26-8-2014

Lecture-16

31-8-2014

Lecture-17

02-9-2014

Lecture-18

Network optimization model and plan location

model
Inventory modelling, the importance of inventory
management, why inventory hold at all?
MID TERM 1
The key factors that affecting inventory policy.
EOQ model
Different types of inventory models , Economic
lot sizing model
Case study of Swim suit production, centralize
and decentralized system
Centralized and decentralized control , different
distribution strategies, push and pull based SC
Role of demand forecast, characteristics of
demand forecast,
Components and methods of forecast, Basic
approach of demand forecast
Time series demand forecast methods. Static and
adaptive methods,
Moving average , Waited moving average,

07-9-2014

Lecture-19

Simple exponential
analysis

09-9-2014

Lecture-20

14-9-2014

Lecture-21

16-9-2014

Lecture-22

1-8 ~7-8
6

10

11

smoothing,

CLASS
TEST 2

CLASS
TEST 3

regression

Frame work for Strategic Alliances, third party

logistic in details,
Requirements and implementation of 3PL,
Advantage or disadvantages of 3PL
RSP, requirements and implementation RSP

CLASS
TEST 4

21-9~25-9
12

28-9-2014

Lecture-23

30-9-2014
MID
TERM 2

Lecture-24

12-10-14

Lecture-25

14-10-14

Lecture-26

19-10-14

Lecture-27

21-10-14

Lecture-28

13

14

MID TERM 2
Demand uncertainty, supply contracts with a case
study
(s, S) policies, multi period inventory model, risk
pooling
Coordination and integration, complexity of
integration
Performance and coordination, vendor managed
inventories
Risks and advantages of international supply
chain, Global strategy implementation
Global risks, Issues of international SCM, local
autonomy control, Central control, regional
difference in logistics

CLASS
TEST 5

Recommended Texts:
1.Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, Concepts, strategies and Case Studies by David Simchi-Levi,
Philip Kaminsky, Edith Simchi-Levi
2. Supply Chain Management strategy, Planning and Operation by Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl, and D.V.
Kalra