What you’ll learn
- Understanding supply chain management.
- Understanding what is a supply chain and its Objectives.
- Various supply chain components and their roles as well key decision making variables related these components..
- Managerial levers that help achieve adequate supply chain coordination.
- Poor supply chain coordination and the bullwhip effect.
- The impact of the bullwhip effect on supply chain performance.
- Quantitative demand forecasting techniques + qualitative forecasting techniques.
- Three basic measures of forecast accuracy.
- Comparison of the four quantitative forecasting techniques using three measures of forecast accuracy.
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
- Achieving supply and demand management through S&OP.
- Different nature and sources of demand.
- Introduction to inventory management – Objectives of inventory management, definition of inventory, types, costs and reasons for holding inventories.
- Inventory replenishment models – ROP, Basic EOQ, Min-Max and Single Period Model, including situations in which each would be appropriate.
- Planning and replenishment concepts – MRP and DRP concepts, and JIT philosophy including applications in which each would be appropriate and/or solve problems.
- Comparison of MRP and DRP techniques.
- Inventory classification models such as A-B-C classification model, FSN approach, and CVA approach.
- Role of logistics in a supply chain.
- Different modes of transportation and basic trade-offs to consider when selecting modes of transportation.
- Measuring supply chain performance using various performance measurement methods such as financial performance measures and widely used KPIs.
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