Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Advanced Supply Chain

Important Topics

- Cradle to Cradle Protocol

- Up-recycling
- Green Procurement
- Triple bottomline approach
- Closed loop of material flow
- Balanced Performance Metrics - Framework / Balanced Scorecard /
- Substitutability - Accounting in terms of logistics and profitability, Effect to the value
change

- Financial / Non-Financial Metrics, innovation metrics, Diagnostic metrics

- ERPs effect on Supply Chain, Path of ERP ahead, Difference ERP is making in our
lives and how to solve the problems existing in the current ERP system, Gaps in ERP

- Role of IT in supply chain and Innovation in Supply Chain

- Implementation methodology and Issues in the B2B Supply Chain
- Company Supply Chain - DELL, Toyota, HP, Philips, Amazon, etc.
- Drivers & Enablers of Supply Chain (focus on IT perspective)
- Incentives, trade promotions, pricing strategies and their effect on the supply chain
- Coordination & Collaboration in the Supply Chain
- External Challenges in the supply chain
- Transportation in supply chain and how to choose a transportation model - Effect of
Transportation on the performance of the supply chain (Negative and Positive) - TCM
(Total Cost Management) - Cost of failure, Cost of recycling

- Intermodal transportation - Multimodal transportation - Bonded Warehouse - Tools

available for warehousing and transportation and their relevance - Both sides of the
coin, Trade offs should be mentioned along with the cost

- Cost of Supply Chain, Cost breakup of a supply chain with different businesses (5-6
industries and products from different industries) Relative comparison

- Outsourcing according to the industry and reasons for outsourcing

1

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

- Sourcing Strategy and Vendor Metrics, Technology and Supply Chain

- All strategies - sourcing, distribution strategy from product perspective.
- Reverse logistics
- Network analysis, Problems on distribution network, optimization equation, Inventory
sums and other questions

- Demand Forecasting - moving averages, exponential smoothening

- Top executives requirement from a supply chain deliverable and how can they be
contradictory in nature

- Misalignment of Demand & Supply, Decision Making, Push Pull Strategy

- Note: Solid Bullet points. Explain the point in 2-3 sentences and not more than that.
3 marker - 3-6 points
5 marker - 5-8 points
7 marker - 7-10 points
Indent the answers