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Courses » Operations and Supply Chain Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management

EXAM DATES
Dates of exams are 5th July 2015 and 12th July 2015. Timing: 1pm – 4pm. Exam can be taken on any of the 2 dates. The list of cities where the exam will be conducted will be available in the registration form.

For Tentative list of exam cities 
Please refer: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

REGISTRATION FOR CERTIFICATION EXAM
Announcements for certificate exam registration will be posted on April 15th 2015. The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of Rs 1000, needs to be paid.

Registration URL: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2299/application.html



CERTIFICATE 
Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will be jointly signed by Coordinator of IIT Kanpur and NPTEL and will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will also have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will also be e-verifiable on the nptel.ac.in/noc/ website.

ABOUT THE COURSE CONTENTS
All the lessons for this course are posted as videos and this completes the content for the course. You will be tested in this content in the final exam.
2 assignments will be posted with complete solutions - one in May based on the first half of the course and one in June based on the second half of the course
Forum: The forum is available for students to post questions and get their doubts clarified mutually.

If you have any questions, please ask on the forum or mail us atnptel@iitm.ac.in.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR




Prof. G. Srinivasan
Department of Management
IIT Madras

COURSE OUTLINE
 This course introduces the viewer to the basics of Operations and Supply Chain Management. The concepts in Operations Management are restricted to the planning and operational decisions within an organization while the supply chain concepts are for a network of organizations. The main emphasis of the course is on the basic concepts and on quantitative modeling of the various decision problems.


SYLLABUS

COURSE DETAIL 


S.No

Topics

No.of Hours

1

Forecasting.

  1. Need for forecasting.
  1. Quantitative methods.

4

2

Facility layout and location.

  1. Qualitative aspects.
  1. Quantitative models for layout decisions.

 

  1. Product, process fixed position, group layout.
  1. Location decisions-quantitative models.

8

3

Capacity and aggregate planning.

  1. Capacity measurement, Long-term and short term strategies.
  2. Aggregate planning.

3

4

Inventory management.

  1. Various costs in inventory management and need.
  2. Deterministic models and discounts.
  3. Probabilistic inventory management.

7

5

Scheduling models and applications.

  1. Scheduling in MRP system.
  2. Sequencing rules and applications.
  3. Batch production sequencing and scheduling.

5

6

Introduction to supply chain.

  1. Definition, complexity, key issues.
  2. Centralized vs. decentralized systems.

2

7

Value of information and supply chain integration.

  1. Bullwhip effect.
  2. Push-based, pull based systems.

3

8

Outsourcing : Make or buy decisions.

3

9

Transportation decision.

  1. Drivers of the decision.
  2. Network design decisions.
  3. Cross-docking, transshipment.

6

10

Distribution and logistics in supply chains.

  1. Direct shipment/intermediate storage policies.
  2. Vehicle routing models.
  3. Third-party logistics.

4

11

Information technology in supply chain.

  1. Enabling supply chain through IT.
  2. ERP vendor platforms.
  3. Service oriented architecture (SOA).
  4. RFID.

4

 

Total

49

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