Supply Chain Management: Sourcing, Planning & Delivery (Live Online Programme) 
Last date for registration: 03 Mar, 2021
End Date : 11 Mar, 2021
Early Bird Discount Date : 22 Feb, 2021
It is almost a cliche that companies now compete on the excellence of their supply chains rather than individually. In the past decade or so, supply chains have become more global, "longer", and hence riskier and less susceptible to control by a single dominant player. Understanding the basics of a supply chain is therefore more important than ever. This 4-day course emphasizes those strategic and operational principles that enable you to serve your customer better. These include the strategic foundations of a supply chain (what type of supply chain is "right" for your product?), the important concept of flow and variability in a production system (via a thorough examination of the famed Toyota Production System), and various fundamental operational concepts such as buffering and inventory, aggregate planning, service levels, and risk management. Wherever possible service supply chains are also considered, and major differences between product and service supply chains pointed out. Finally we discuss two capstone topics that serve to unify the course: innovation and how it happens in the supply chain, and the damaging effects that the lack of coordination can produce. Throughout the course the discussion is kept at a managerial (rather than a technical) level.
The topics range from supply chain strategy (including sourcing) through aggregate planning and forecasting to execution such as product availability and pricing. We also include a discussion of the pervasive phenomenon of amplification and oscillations in a supply chain.
The program will help the participant understand and appreciate various tools and frameworks related to developing and executing a supply chain to successfully match customers’ needs. The various case studies and best practices studies will help the participant develop a mindset to look at the supply chain holistically rather than take localized decisions.
The main objectives of the course are:
- Understand the strategic foundations and best practices in product supply chains.
- Design a supply chain network that supports the supply chain strategy to be followed.
- Learn to apply the capacity and flow principles of the Toyota Production System to the supply chain as a whole.
- Understand the most important tactical and operational concepts that apply to all supply chains: matching supply and demand (aggregate planning), buffering (variability and inventory management), and sourcing and contracts (aligned incentives).
- Understand the fundamental nature of product availability (service levels), pricing and revenue management for the customer.
- Understand the importance of innovation in the supply chain and how to foster it.
- Understand why lack of coordination in the supply chain leads to seriously damaging uncontrolled effects such as oscillations in the supply chain.
- Appreciate the main consequences of the differences between service and product supply chains.
This course is suitable for senior supply chain and operations managers in both manufacturing and service sectors. More attention is now being devoted to service delivery and service supply chains and we hope to cover that.
The material is delivered primarily through case studies, exercises and group discussions, and should be of benefit to virtually any senior manager, particularly those involved in operational and supply chain matters.
Programme Fee
INR 80,750/- (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.
Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 22-Feb-21 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 5%.
Early Bird Fee INR 76,713/-(+ Applicable GST)
Please Note
All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme.
A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
If a nomination is not accepted, the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
IIMB has adopted the ZOOM platform to conduct synchronous online live sessions after careful evaluation of multiple options. It helps create a learning environment that is quite similar to a face to face class, and also provides pedagogical tools that facilitate discussion-based learning. Participants will need to have a computer that can download Zoom software and a sound Internet connection to attend the sessions.
Timeline of the Programme:
08:30am to 11: 50am
02:30pm to 05: 50pm
Professor Anshuman Tripathy is a faculty member in Operations Management. His research interests are two fold. His early research, which continues today, dwells into how firms design their globally distributed product development organizations with particular focus on firms that are involved in the design and development of complex engineered systems. Of late he has also been looking into how firms need to act along the industry value chain to ensure sustainability of their product/process innovations. His research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Production and Operations Management. His paper `Structuring Work Distribution for Global Product Development Organizations’ was awarded the Wickham Skinner Best Paper (Runner- Up) for the best paper in Production and Operations Management.
At IIM Bangalore, Anshuman teaches the core course in Operations Management for the PGP programme, and offers an elective on Technology & Operations Strategy for all the long duration programmes. He also offers Executive Programmes on Project/ Programme Management, Value Chain Strategies, Manufacturing Excellence, Managing Technological Innovation, and Supply Chain Strategies. As a recognition of his teaching, Anshuman has been a regular invitee to “The Last Lecture” (initiated in 2017 by the PGP students to felicitate their best faculty over the 2-year MBA program). He held the IIMB Chair of Excellence during 2016-19.
Anshuman has been a faculty member at IIM Bangalore since 2011. Prior to that he was a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad. Anshuman worked for more than 10 years, between his PGDM and PhD, in the automotive industry at Maruti Udyog Ltd and Ford India/USA, holding senior management positions in Purchasing, eBusiness Strategy Development, PD Programme Management, and Product Development. His last assignment, before pursuing a career in academics, was as General Manager (Product Engineering) at Ford India Ltd.
Professor Sudhir Chadha is a graduate of IIT Kanpur, andobtained his doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then pursued research in theoretical particle physics first at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (as a Royal Society European Fellow), then at Centre d’Etudes de Nucleaire a Saclay in Paris, CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear research) in Geneva, and the University of Oxford. He has published over 25 papers in international journals. His main research interests were (are) in fundamental physics, unified theories, and the structure of the Higgs boson. He is also the author (with H. B. Nielsen) of the so-called Nielsen-Chadha theorem on symmetry breaking in nonrelativistic systems. Following his academic career in physics, Sudhir joined IBM UK, and became a consulting Partner in the IBM Global Business Services Division specializing in supply chain management, innovation, and project management. He executed major projects in the manufacturing industry with many clients including Rolls-Royce Aeroengines, Caterpillar, Honda Motors, and Rover Automobiles. About ten years ago Sudhir returned to academia (again!) to teach supply chain and project management at the University of Warwick UK as well as part-time at the IIMB (as an adjunct faculty).
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