Department of Production Engineering

B.Tech VII Sem

PRPE18 - Supply Chain Management - Seminar Topics
Batch No. Topics
Role of forecasting in Supply chain (SC).
Methods & Characteristics of Demand forecasting.
2 Forecasting Time series Forecasting Methods - Moving Average, Exponential smoothing, Holt's
model, Winter's model and Logistic regression.

Errors in forecast
Aggregate planning(AP) Strategies
AP Problem
5 Aggregate Planning
AP using Linear Programming
AP using Excel
Role of Cycle Inventory in SC, Lot sizing for a single product
12 Economies of scale to exploit fixed cost
Lot sizing with multiple products
All units discount
Economies of scale to exploit Quantity
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discounts Marginal unit discount

10 Replenishment policies (Deterministic & Stochastic models - Q-type & P-type)

(Economic production quantity - single item & Multiple items)

9 Batch type production systems
Role of safety inventory in SC
Determining Appropriate Level of Safety Inventory

3 Safety Inventory in SC Impact of Supply Uncertainty on Safety Inventory

Impact of Aggregation on Safety Inventory
Impact of Replenishment Policies on Safety Inventory
The Role of Network Design in the Supply Chain
Factors Influencing Network Design Decisions

6 Network Design in the SC Framework for Network Design Decisions

Models for Facility Location
Capacity Allocation
The Impact of Uncertainty on Network Design
Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
SC Network Design in an Uncertain
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Environment Representations of Uncertainty
Evaluating Network Design Decisions Using Decision Trees
The Importance of the Level of Product Availability
Factors Affecting Optimal Level of Product Availability
The Optimal Level of Product
4 Managerial Levers to Improve Supply Chain Profitability
Availability
Setting Product Availability for Multiple Products Under Capacity Constraints

Lack of SC coordination and the bullwhip effect

Effect on performance of lack of coordination
Obstacles to coordination in SC
1 Coordination in Supply chain
Managerial levers to achieve coordination
Continuous Replenishment and Vendor-Managed Inventories
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)
 The Role of Sourcing in a Supply Chain
In-House or Outsource
Third- and Fourth-Party Logistics Providers
15 Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Supplier Scoring and Assessment
Supplier Selection-Auctions and Negotiations
Supplier selection using MCDM technique
Contracts and Supply Chain Performance
Design Collaboration
The Procurement Process
7 Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Designing a sourcing porfolio - Tailored sourcing
The Role of IT in Sourcing
Risk Management in Sourcing
Responding to Predictable Variability in the Supply Chain
Managing Supply

13 Sales and Operations Planning Managing Demand

Factors influencing the timing of the promotion
Implementing Sales and Operations Planning in Practice
Role in SC
Multiple Customer Segments
Perishable Products
Pricing and Revenue Management in
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SC Seasonal Demand
Bulk and Spot Contracts
Role of IT
The Role of IT in SC
The Supply Chain IT Framework
Customer Relationship Management
Internal Supply Chain Management
16 Information Technology in SC
Supplier Relationship Management
The Transaction Management Foundation
The Future of IT in the Supply Chain
Risk Management in IT
Role of sustainability in SC

The Tragedy of the commons

19 Sustainablity in a suppy chain Key Metrics

Drivers

Closed-loop supply chain (Recent research trends)

Recent Research articles (Explain the case and optimization technique used in the
8 Supply chain Optimization article)

Review article: Digitalization of supply chain (Any sector)

18 Digital Supply chain Research articles: Explain the framework and the methodology used in the article.