Faculty of Management

Integrated MBA Programme

Course Title: Supply Chain Management

Semester Course Code Course Credit

VIII 150504813 03
Course Type Specialization Contact Hours
Elective Marketing 35

Course Objectives:
The core objective of subject is to impart knowledge and understanding to

1 students on Supply Chain Management and its relevance to today’s business

decision making.
To provide an opportunity for vertical growth of students, leading to an
2
improvement in their job skills and self-enrichment.

Learning Outcomes:
Understanding on SCM & its role and importance in dynamic and ever-
1
changing business environment.
Students will be able to identify key factors to be considered when designing a

2 distribution network and also understanding the role of forecasting for both -
enterprise & network provider.
Students will understand the role and application of Information Technology in
3 SCM.

GLS University, Faculty of Management, Integrated MBA Programme Syllabus: 2018-19

 Syllabus
No. of
Module %
Modules/Sub-Modules Contact
No. Weightage
Hrs.
Understanding Supply Chain Management
 Understating of Supply Chain: Supply Chain
Management and Objective, Importance. Decision
Phase in Supply chain and Process View.
 Supply Chain Performance: Competitive and supply
I chain strategies, achieving strategic fit. Challenges to 07 20
achieve and maintaining strategic fit.
 Supply Chain Drivers and metrics: Impellers and
drivers of Supply chain, Framework for structuring
drivers: Facility, Inventory, Transportation,
Information, Sourcing and Pricing
Designing the supply Chain network
 Designing distribution network and application to
online sale: Role of distribution in SCM and factors
affecting Distribution network design, Designing
options for Distribution network, Distribution
network and online sales.
 Network designing in Supply chain: Role of network
II designing in SCM, factors affecting network 08 25
designing, Framework for network designing
decision, Models for facility location and capacity
allocation.
 Designing Global Supply Chain Management: Impact
of globalization on SCM, The offshoring decision,
Risk management in Global Supply chain
management.
Planning and Coordination in Supply Chain
 Demand forecasting: Role and characteristic of
forecasting in SCM. Components of forecast and
forecasting methods. Approach to demand
forecasting, Time-series forecasting Method.
 Planning supply and demand in SCM: Responding
III predictable variable in Supply chain. Managing 08 25
Supply and Demand, Implementing Sales and
Operations planning in Practice.
 Coordination in Supply Chain: Bullwhip Effect and
lace of coordination, effect on performance,
Obstacle in Supply chain coordination, Collaborative
Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR).
Planning and managing Inventories in a Supply Chain
 Managing Uncertainty in Supply chain: Role of safety
IV 06 15
Inventory in SCM, Determination of safety level of
Inventory. Role of IT in Inventory management.

GLS University, Faculty of Management, Integrated MBA Programme Syllabus: 2018-19

  Determining the optimal level of product availability:
Importance of level of product availability, factors
affecting optimal level.

Designing and Planning Transportation Network

 Transportation in SCM: Role of Transportation,
Modes and performance characteristics, Designing
Option for Transportation. Tailored Transportation
V 06 15
and Role of IT in Transportation. Making
transportation decision in Practice.
 Information technology in Transportation: Role and
Framework of IT in SCM, Future of IT in SCM.

Evaluation:
Assignments / Quizzes / Class Participation etc. 30% (Internal Assessment)
1
2 Internal Examination 20% (Internal Assessment)
3 External Examination (University Exam) 50% (External Assessment)

Pedagogical Tools:
1 Lectures and Discussions
2 Video
3 Case Study
4 Live Example and practical situations.

Learning Resources:
 Supply Chain Management- Strategy, Planning, and
1 Text Books Operation by Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl, Dharam Vir
Kalra, Pearson, 6th Edition
 Supply Chain Management-Text and Cases by Janat
Shah, Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd, Latest
Edition
 Supply Chain Management-A Managerial Approach, by
2 Reference Books Amit Sinha , Herbert Kotzab, McGrawHill Education Pvt.
Ltd., Latest Edition
 Supply Chain Management- Concepts, Practices, And
Implementation by Sunil Sharma, Oxford Higher
Education, Latest Edition
 International Journals of Logistics and Supply Chain
Management
 International Journal of Logistics and Planning Supply
5 Journals
Chain Management
 Digital Supply Chain Management
 Cargo Connect

GLS University, Faculty of Management, Integrated MBA Programme Syllabus: 2018-19

Session Plan:

Session No. Topic / Chapters

1-2 Supply Chain Management and Objective, Importance. Decision Phase in
Supply chain and Process View.
3-4 Competitive and supply chain strategies, achieving strategic. Challenges
to achieve and maintaining strategic fit.
5-7 Impellers and drivers of Supply chain, Framework for structuring drivers:
Facility, Inventory, Transportation, Information, Sourcing and Pricing.
8-10 Role of distribution in SCM and factors affecting Distribution network
design, Designing options for Distribution network, Distribution network
and online sales.
11-13 Role of network designing in SCM, factors affecting network designing,
Framework for network designing decision, Models for facility location
and capacity allocation.
14-15 Impact of globalization on SCM, The offshoring decision, risk
management in Global Supply chain management.
16-19 Role and characteristic of forecasting in SCM. Components of forecast
and forecasting methods. Approach to demand forecasting, Time-series
forecasting Method.
20-21 Responding predictable variable in Supply chain, Managing Supply and
Demand, Implementing Sales and Operations planning in Practice.
22-23 Bullwhip Effect and lace of coordination, effect on performance, Obstacle
in Supply chain coordination, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and
Replenishment (CPFR).
24-26 Role of safety Inventory in SCM, Determination of safety level of
Inventory. Role of IT in Inventory management.
27-29 Importance of level of product availability, factors affecting optimal level.
30-32 Role of Transportation, Modes and performance characteristics,
Designing Option for Transportation, Tailored Transportation and Role of
IT in Transportation, Making transportation decision in Practice.
33-35 Role and Framework of IT in SCM, Future of IT in SCM.

GLS University, Faculty of Management, Integrated MBA Programme Syllabus: 2018-19