Supply chain design and strategies are an important source of competitive advantage of firms. The supply chain practices need to be continuously updated for surviving the product innovations, shrinking product life-cycles, and other challenges of globally disbursed supply chains. The course addresses complexities of supply chains, identifies strategic and operational decisions, and provides tools and techniques for effective decision making.

Course Objectives

To develop an understanding of key drivers of supply chain performance and their relationship with functional areas like manufacturing, marketing.

To expose participants to analytical and problem solving skills for variety of real life supply chain design problems.

Understanding the integration of IT and Decision Support Systems in supply chain optimization.

To analyze purchasing, production and distribution strategies synchronous with competitive strategy and market needs.