FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS

Supply Chain and Logistics Management


UNIT-I
Understanding the Supply Chain: Define Supply Chain, Objective of a Supply Chain, Importance of Supply Chain
Decisions, Decision Phases in a Supply Chain, Process View of a Supply Chain, Competitive and Supply Chain
Strategies, Achieving Strategic Fit, Expanding Strategic Scope, logistics as integral part of SCM, components of
logistics
UNIT-II
Designing the supply chain network: role of distribution, factors influencing distribution, design options, ebusiness and its impact , distribution networks in practice, network design in the supply chain, role of network,
factors affecting the network design decisions, modelling for supply chain, designing and planning transportation
networks: Role of transportation, modes and their performance, transportation infrastructure and policies design
options and their trade-offs, tailored transportation.
UNIT-III
Purchasing and Vendor management: Centralized and decentralized purchasing, functions of purchase department
and purchase policies, single vendor concept, management of stores, accounting for materials. Inventory
Management: Concept, various costs associated with inventory, various EOQ models, buffer stock (trade-off
between stock out / working capital cost),lead time reduction, re-order point / re-order level fixation, exercises ,
ABC, SDE / VED Analysis, Just-In-Time and Kanban System of Inventory management.
UNIT-IV
Decision-support systems for supply chain management: Introduction, the challenges of modelling structure of
decision support systems, input data, analytical tools, presentation tools, supply chain decision: support systems.
Recent Issues in SCM: Role of Computer / IT in Supply Chain Management, CRM vs. SCM, Benchmarking
concept, Features and Implementation, Outsourcing-basic concept, Value Addition in SCM-concept of demand
chain management