Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Senior Management Programme

2018 – ‘19

Session Timings

Session 1 15.00 - 16.15

Tea/Coffee
16.15 - 16.45
Break

Session 2 16.45 - 18.00

Weekend Schedule
September 2018

Operations and Supply Management

Week 7 Saturday September 01, 2018

Session 1 Topic Aligning Operations to Business

Objectives
Chetan Soman Case Manzana Insurance: Fruitvale Branch
Reading Breaking the Trade-Off Between Efficiency
and Service

Session 2 Topic Operational Excellence: A re-look at the

Chetan Soman classical "Toyota way"
Case Toyota Motor Manufacturing

Week 8 Saturday September 08, 2018

Session 1 Topic Managing Seasonality

Chetan Soman Case Kool King (A)
Reading Note on Aggregate Capacity Planning

Session 2 Topic Strategic Capacity Planning

Chetan Soman Case Zenith Radio Corporation
Reading Long-Term Capacity Strategies
Week 9 Saturday September 15, 2018

Session 1 Topic Operations Strategy: Managing

Conflicting Business Units
Chetan Soman Case Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse
Medical Center

Session 2 Topic Long Term Planning - Flexibility

Chetan Soman Case Stermon Mills Incorporated
Reading What Makes Factories Really Flexible?

Week 10 Saturday September 22, 2018

Session 1 Topic Evaluating Operations Strategy

Chetan Soman Case American Connector Company (A)
Reading Competing Through Manufacturing

Session 2 Topic Operational Excellence in Projects

Chetan Soman Case Enercon India: Project Planning

Week 11 Saturday September 29, 2018

Session 1 Topic Managing Innovation

Chetan Soman Case Managing Innovation at Nypro, Inc. (A)
Reading Disruptive Technologies: Catching the
Wave

Session 2 Topic Supply Chain Management: Just-In-

Time Distribution
Chetan Soman Case Barilla SpA (A)
Reading The Costly Bargain of Trade Promotion

Week 12 Saturday October 06, 2018

Session 12 Topic Implementing a Virtual Marketplace

Chetan Soman Case www.pefa.com Pan European Fish
Auctions