Logistics & Supply Chain Management

By Prof. Vikas Thakur | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 4501 | Exam registration: 1388

ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course will enable the students to understand the origin of logistics and evolution of supply chain management concept across product and services industries. The course will equip the students to design local as well as global supply chain networks in a dynamic environment.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: PG, PhD and final year UG (Operations and supply chain management) students

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: All manufacturing industries who are directly involved with the manufacturing and delivering products to the end customers, like: FMCG, the automobile sector, e-commerce businesses, logistics partners, etc.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jul 2024
End Date :	11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	26 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Logistics: Design and Management, Logistics Stakeholders and Modern Logistics Concepts, Manufacturing Logistics: National and International Scenario, Storage and Warehousing, Logistics Services Providers, Outsourcing logistics, Case studies.

Week 2: Industry Scenario: E-commerce Industry; International Logistics; International Market Penetration Strategies; Logistics Key Performance Area (KPIs): Transportation, Supply, Distribution, Warehousing and Order management; Tools for Improving Logistics Efficiency; Case studies.

Week 3: Reverse Logistics; Performance measures in reverse logistics; Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM); Key Technologies in Green Logistics for Minimizing Carbon Emissions; Implementing green logistics; Lean Logistics; Principles of lean logistics; Case studies.

Week 4: Trends in Logistics: Technological Advancements; Categories of Modern Logistics; Performance measures for modern logistics; Logistics versus SCM; Logistical Components of the Supply Chain; Case studies.

Week 5: Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management (SCM); Supply Chain Decisions; Types of Supply Chain Models; Supply Chain (SC) Operations: Manufacturing versus Service SC; Examples of Manufacturing and Service Sector; Principle Streams of Supply Chain: 1st stream, 2nd stream, and 3rd stream, 25: Objectives of Supply Chain Networks; Factors influencing Supply Chain Network Decisions; Framework of Network Design Decision; Case studies.

Week 6: Supply Chain Uncertainty and Processes; How to mitigate Supply Chain Uncertainty?; Supply Chain Operational Views: SCOR Model; Cyclic View and Push/Pull View of Supply Chain; Supply Chain Model and Modelling Systems; Supply Chain Control Towers (Future of SC Modelling); Supply Chain Drivers; Case studies.

Week 7: SC performance and Strategy: Impellers of Supply Chain and Value Chain, Supply Chain Strategy: Introduction; Achieving Strategic Fit in the Supply Chain, Models for developing Supply Chain Strategy; Make-or-Buy Decisions; Case studies.

Week 8: Strategic sourcing; Supplier selection and management; Vendor selection and rating; Global sourcing; Coordination in Supply Chain; SC Performance Measurement; Case study.

Week 9: Importance of distribution in SC; Decision-making in distribution networks design; Designing distribution networks and Distribution Management; Facility Location Decisions, Case Studies.

Week 10: Forecasting Demand; Facility Capacity Planning: Sequencing and scheduling; Transportation decisions; Assignment of markets to factories through assignment problem-solving algorithm, Case Studies.

Week 11: Inventory management; Designing Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains; Smart practices in SCM: 21st Century Supply Chains; Supply chain 4.0 and its benefits; Financing Global Supply Chain; Supply Chain Finance, Case Studies.

Week 12: Sustainable SCs; Designing emergency supply chains; Assets Management in the Supply Chains; Future perspectives of SCM; Case Studies.

Books and references

David Bloomberg, Stephen LeMay, Joe Hanna: Logistics, Prentice Hall 2001. ISBN:013010194X1.
Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Case Studies, SecondEdition, David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, NewYork, 2003.
Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindel. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, andOperation, Prentice Hall of India, 2002.
Thomas Teufel, Jurgen Rohricht, Peter Willems: SAP Processes: Logistics, Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN: 0201715147

Instructor bio

Prof. Vikas Thakur

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Vikas Thakur is Assistant Professor in Dept. of HSS, IIT Kharagpur. He has completed his PhD from DoMS, IIT Roorkee in the area of operations and supply chain management. Before IIT KGP, he was working with NIT Rourkela. He has a total of appx 10 years of teaching experience and a couple of years of industry experience also. He has guided two PhD scholars in the area of operations and supply chain management. He has more than 24 research articles in leading journals of international repute. He has handled seven R&D projects in different areas, like: healthcare waste management, municipal solid waste management, smart city mission, etc.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 26 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

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