Programme Content
Supply Chain Performance, Drivers and Metrics
Topics
What is supply chain?
Some recent trends of supply chain
Role of analytics in supply chain
Supply chain strategies Push-Pull
Supply chain strategies efficiency-responsiveness
Understanding the customer and supply chain uncertainty
Tools/Drivers for supply chain management
Framework for structuring Drivers
Designing the Supply Chain or Distribution Network
Topics
Distribution Network Design
Parameters to decide suitable distribution
Gravity location models
Network optimisation for locating plants and warehouses simultaneously
Designing Global Supply Chain Network
Planning and Coordinating Demand and Supply
Topics
Demand Forecasting Basics
Designing Global Supply Chain Network
Time Series Analysis for Forecasting in Supply Chain
Forecasting Errors, Tracking Signal, Sigma
Introduction to Python Programming
Use of Python for Forecasting
Aggregate Planning in Supply Chain
Sales and Operations Planning
Topics
Planning supply and demand in a supply chain cost of overstocking and understocking
Planning supply and demand in a supply chain (optimisation of inventory separately for two instalment)
Role of Aggregate planning in supply chain
Aggregate Planning Using Linear Programming
Responding to Predictable Variability in Supply Chain
Implementing Sales And Operations Planning In Practice
Lack of Coordination In Supply Chain and its implications
Short term discounting
Managing Uncertainties in a Supply Chain
Topics
Lack of supply Chain Coordination and BULLWHIP
Managing uncertainties in a supply chain
Cycle Service Level
Impact of Supply Uncertainties On Safety Inventory
Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability
Topics
Impact of aggression On Safety Inventory
Impact of coefficient of variation on Value of Aggregation
Impact of Product Substitution on Safety Inventory
Determining the Optimal Level Of Product Availability
Optimal CSL for Single Order Product
Evaluating the Optimal Service Level for Seasonal Items
Determine the optimal level of product availability
How to improve Supply Chain Profitability
Transportation in SupplyChain: Impact on Profit and Inventories
Future Issues in Supply Chain