IMS (Institute of Management Sciences)

Fall 2013 Faculty of Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration Course Information Course Title: Supply Chain Management Lab (Nor Required) Class: MBA (2) 2nd Semester Credit Hours: Three Hours Pre-requisite for this Course: This Course is Pre-requisite for: Instructor: Nadir Munir Magsi e-mail: Nadir_munir@live.com Address: Contact: Reference Books: Supply Chain Management Strategy, Planning & Operation by Sunil Chopra.

Rationale of the Course:

Supply Chain Management- A specialized course offered in the field of advance management to equip the student with latest knowledge of Inbound Logistics, Operations Management, and Outbound Logistics, along with its different dimensions including Procurement, Inventory Management, Transportation Management, Warehouse Management, Production Management, Customer Services and Reverse Logistics. The Main Aim of this course is to deliver the latest concepts of Supply Chain Management, Its Applications and Problems in the field of Manufacturing/Services. This Course gives knowledge about how to design, develop, and maintain effective relationship among the different channels members which will lead towards competitive advantages.

Expected Learning Outcomes: 1. At the end of this course, student will be capable of understanding the supply chain
management structures of national and Multinational Organizations. 2. Will be equipped with latest techniques of designing the new supply chain Management Structures and maintaining the existing ones. 3. To evaluate the Supply Chain Management setups of the companies and suggest the best techniques which will help them to be most competitive. 4. To understand the supply Chain Management Structures (Including Channel Networks) of companies working in Pakistan (Local and Multinational) and Capable of Analyzing them critically.

Guidelines on Assignments:
The approach to the course will be research based and scholars will be given individual and group assignments to be based on secondary and primary data inputs. Text of assignments must be typed in a 12 pt. font. Assignments are due by the beginning of class on the specified due date. Late assignments are penalized, and assignments more than one week late will not be accepted or marked. Any exceptions to these conditions must be obtained in advance.

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Term Project:
One of the important components of this course Supply Chain Management is group project. The class will be divided in groups. Each group must complete the project and must give presentation in class. (i) Students will have to study any organization and its SC related activities and suggest recommendations for the effectiveness of its SC & related programs. (ii) They may assume themselves as a manager of an hypothetical company and devise a SC plan. (iii) Developing an SC plan based on in-depth understanding of derived demand and organizational needs. (iv) They may opt to do project on any organizations market plan in saturated, growing and declining market conditions.

Deadlines of the project:

Phase-I: Before Midterm class will be working in groups of 4 to 5 individuals, Topics will be assigned to them & they will search & get the research articles approved by the instructor. Then they will keep on reading the articles on periodic basis so that a better understanding could be established on a assigned Topic. Group which will outperform others will be rewarded & motivated accordingly. Phase-II: Once it would be realized that the desired understanding has been developed after going through a sufficient literature review then groups will be assigned the task of sharing their gathered knowledge with the class in the form of presentations. Phase-III: After Mid-term groups will be directed to the practical world of organizations. They will coordinate with organizations, seeking their mode of act & limitations keeping the topic in mind which was assigned to the before midterm & on which they have already developed a reasonable understanding through literature review. Finally they will give this activity a shape of term report & then they will present the report which will be a blend of both theoretical & practical knowledge. Course Outline: Week-1 Part-1 Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains: Understanding Supply Chain; What is Supply Chain, Historical Perspective, objective of Supply chain, Importance of Supply Chain Decisions, Decision Phases in Supply chain, Process View of Supply chain. Week-2 Supply chain Performance; Achieving Strategic fit & Scope: Competitive supply chain Strategies, Achieving Strategic Fit, Expanding Strategic Scope, obstacles to Achieving strategic fit, Summary of learning objectives. Week-3 Supply Chain Drivers & Metrics: Impellers of Supply Chain, Drivers of Supply Chain, Framework for structuring Drivers; Facilities, Inventory, Transportation, Information, Sourcing, Pricing, obstacles to Achieving Strategic fit. Week-4 Part-2 Designing Supply Chain Network: Designing Distribution, Networks & Applications to e-business; Role of Distribution in Supply Chain, Factors influencing Distribution Network Design, Design options for distribution Network, E-business & distribution network Week-5 Designing Supply Chain Network (Con-t): Distribution networks in practice, Role of Network in Supply Chain, Factors influencing network design decisions, Models for facility location & Capacity
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Allocation. Week-6 Week-7 Network Design in Supply Chain: Role of IT in Network Design Decisions, Making Network Decision Design Decisions in practice, Impact of uncertainity on network design. Designing Global Supply Chain Networks: Impact of Globalization on Supply chain networks, Offshoring Decision, Risk Management in Global Supply chains, Basic Aspects of Evaluating Global Supply Chain design. Designing Global Supply Chain Networks (Cont): Global Supply Chain Design Under Uncertainity in practice, Uncertainity in Global Supply Chain Operations, Role of Forecasting in Supply Chain, characteristic of Forecasts, Basic Approaches to Demand Forecasting. Mid Term

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Demand forecasting in Supply chains: Measures of Forecasting Errors, Role of IT in forecasting, Risk Management in Forecasting, Forecasting in Practice. Sales & operation Planning; Planning Supply & Demand in a Supply chain: Responding to Predictable Variability in supply chain, Managing Supply, Managing Demand, Implementing sales & operations planning in practice, Tackling predictable Variability in Practice. Planning & Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain; Role of Cycle inventory in Supply Chains, Role of Safety inventory in Supply chain, Determining Appropriate level of Safety Inventory, Impact of SC Uncertainity on Safety stock, Managing uncertainity through postponement, Replenishment policies & Safety stock, Role of IT on Inventory Management. Determining optimal level of product availability: Transportation in supply chains; Role & Mode of transportation infrastructure, Design options, Trade-offs, Role of IT in Transportation, Risk Management in Transportation. Pricing & Revenue Management In Supply chain: Information technology in Supply chain, CRM, Internal SCM, Supplier Relationship Management, future of IT in SC, IT & risk management. Visits of Professionals From Organizations like: Telenor, Engro Foods, Pepsi Cola etc Discussion on Overall Learning Aspects, Review of What have been learned, Suggestions, Recommendation. Project presentation.

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Grade:
The grade you earn during the semester will come from the following work. Midterm Project/Quizzes/Assignment Final Exam: 30 Marks 20 Marks 50 Marks
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