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Designing the supply chain network and planning demand and supply in a supply chain
SCM Implementation
ERP
[1] Chopra S. and P. Meindl, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation, 5e,
Prentice Hall, 2008
[2] Pujawan and Mahendrawathi, Supply Chain Management 2nd Ed, Guna Widya, 2010
[3] Blanchard, David, Supply Chain Management Best Practices 2nd Ed, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2010
[4] Jacoby, David, Guide to Supply Chain Management, Bloomberg Press, 2009
[5] Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management, Harvard Business Press, 2006
[6] Iyer, Seshadri, Vasher, Toyota Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill, 2009
[7] Handfield, Monczka, Giunipero and Patterson, Sourcing and Supply Chain Management, 4e,
South-Western, 2009
[8] Cachon and Terwiesch, An Introduction to Operations Management, 2e, McGraw-Hill, 2009
[Tentative] UTS: 25%, UAS: 25%, Assignments: 25%, Quizzes: 10%, Participation: 15%
(Presence, Active Participation in Class Discussion -Coupon-), Weekly Self-test: 10% TOTAL:
110% -- (No additional assignment after final exam)
Time
Class SCM - A: Monday, 08.00-09.40 (2 sks) @2301 & Wednesday, 10.00-10.50 (1 sks) @2301;
Class SCM - B: Monday, 16.00-17.40 (2 sks) @2306 & Wednesday, 11.00-11.50 (1 sks) @2306;
Class SCM - C: Monday, 08.00-09.40 (1 sks) @2502 & Wednesday, 10.00-10.50 (2 sks) @2502.
Rules
1. The class refers to the SCELE time. If you come after the instructor and the door is closed,
you should wait outside. The instructor will allow you to enter the class after 15 minutes.
If you arrive after 15 minutes, you are not allowed to join the class.
2. Make-up quiz/mid-term/final exam is only given to student who is eligible according to
the faculty regulation. To inquire make-up quiz/mid-term/final exam, the student must
give notification (by email to the lecturer or call the faculty secretariat) at the latest on
the day of quiz / exam. The make-up quiz/ exam can be given maximum 2 weeks after
the quiz/exam. The corresponding document for the make up quiz/exam must be given
prior to the make up quiz/exam.
3. Overdue tasks are not be accepted, unless for the same reason as mentioned in point
two.
Course Plan
Week-1
31 Aug & 2 Sep 2015
Week-2
7 &9 Sep 2015
Competitive and supply chain strategies, achieving strategic fit, expanding strategic scope,
obstacles to achieving strategic fit, drivers of supply chain performance, framework for
structuring drivers, facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing and pricing
Sources: Ch. 2 & 3
Designing Distribution Networks and Network Design in the Supply Chain (3rd Assignment )
Week-3
14 & 16 Sep 2015
The role of distribution and network design in the supply chain, factors influencing distribution
network design, design options for distribution network, e-business and distribution network,
framework for network design decisions, models for facility location and capacity allocation
Sources: Ch. 4 & 5
Designing Global Supply Chain Networks (4th assignment)
Week-4
21 &23 2015
The impact of globalization on supply chain networks, risk management in global supply chains,
the basic aspects of evaluating global supply chain design, evaluating network design decisions
using decision trees
Sources: Ch. 6
Demand Forecasting
Week-5
28 & 30 Sep 2015
Week-6
5 &7 Oct 2015
Week-7
12 & 14 Oct 2015
Responding to predictable variability in the supply chain, managing supply and demand,
implementing sales and operations planning in practice. Describe supply chain coordination and
the bullwhip effect, and their impact on supply chain performance and identify obstacles to
coordination in a supply chain. Discuss manajerial levels that help achieve coordination in a
supply chain, understand the different forms of collaborative planning, forecasting, and
replenishment possible in a supply chain.
Week-8
19- 27 Oct 2015
Sources: Ch. 9
MID-TERM EXAM
Conduct an exam which covers all the topics from week-1 until week-7
Managing Economics of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
Week-9
28 Oct 2015
The role of cycle inventory in a supply chain, estimating cycle inventory-related costs in practice,
economies of sclae to exploit fixed costs and quantity discounts
Sources: Ch. 11
Week-10
2 & 4 Nov 2015
Week-11
9 & 11 Nov 2015
Week-12
16 & 18 Nov 2015
The role of safety inventory in a supply chain, determining appropriate level of safety inventory,
impact of supply uncertainty on safety inventory, impact of aggregation and replenishment
policies on safety inventory, the role of IT in inventory management
Sources: Ch. 12
Week-13
23 & 25 Nov 2015
Week-14
30 Nov & 2 Des 2015
Week-15
7 & 9 Des 2015
Week 16
14 Des 2015
Week-17
16- 29 Des-2014
The importance of the level of product availability, factors affecting optimal level of product
availability, managerial levers to improve supply chain profitability.
Sources: Ch. 13
Extra week
FINAL EXAM
Conduct an exam which covers all the topics after the mid term exam (tentative).