International Supply Chain Management

Paper Code: 
MIB 425
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Objective: 

Paper has been designed such that it acquaints the students with the key features of International Supply Chain Management and familiarizes the students with the components of International Supply Chain management.

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Unit I: 
International Supply Chain Management

Concept, Integrated Supply Chain/Value Chain, Supply Chain Strategies- Pull Based Supply Chain, Push Based Supply Chain, Push-Pull Based Supply Chain, Bullwhip Effect, Drivers of Supply Chain Management, Design and managing Supply Chain Management- Generation of requirement, sourcing, pricing, post-pricing.

12.00
Unit II: 
Supply Chain Planning and Implementation

Aggregated Planning in a Supply Chain, Aggregated Planning Strategies- Planning Supply Chain and Demand in a Supply Chain, Planning and managing Inventories in a Supply Chain, Planning for optimal Level of product availability, sources and source management, role of transportation on supply chain.

12.00
Unit III: 
Performance Measurement in Supply Chain

Concept, Measurement Systems, Supply Chain Performance Measurement Systems- (Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard, Hierarchy Based Measurement System, Function Based Measurement System, Perspectives Based Measurement System, Supply Chain Operations Reference Model, Dimension Based Measurement System, Interface Based Measurement), System Selecting Measures, IT Enabled Supply Chain Management, Electronic Commerce, Electronic Data Interchange, Bar Coding and Scanning, Data Warehouse.

12.00
Unit IV: 
Operational And Financial Performance Measurement

Measurement systems objectives, Operational Assessment- Functional Perspective, Measuring Customer Accommodation, Determining Appropriate metrics, Supply chain Comprehensive metrics, Benchmarking, Financial Assessment- Cost-revenue analysis, strategic profit model, Requirements for financial reporting.

12.00
Unit V: 
Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Management

Introduction, Collaborative Strategies, Vendor management Inventory, Third party Logistics, Fourth Party Logistics, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Agents, Green Supply Chain, Reverse Logistics, World Class Supply Chain, Supply Chain Risk Management
Supply Chain Risk Management/Risk Dimensions (Product Complexity risk, Regulatory Risk, Resource availability Risk, Security Risk.

Essential Readings: 

• Donald, David, Cooper Bixby M., Supply Chain Logistics Management, Mc Graw Hill International.
• Bhat Shridhara K., Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Himalaya Publishing House.
• Douglas,International Logistics: Global Supply Chain Management Springer- Verlag New York, LLC;2004
• Philippe-Pierre Dornier, Panos Kouvelis, Michel Fender Global Operations and
• Logistics: Text and Cases Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated 1998
• Alan Branch Global Supply Chain Management in International Logistics Routledge 2007
• Kent N. Gourdin Global Logistics Management: A Competitive Advantage for the New Millennium Blackwell Publishing 2006

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