Course Plan

Week 1: Context of today’s supply chains (SC) analytics

Understanding and defining the supply chain analytics (SCA)
Revisions of Basic Lessons of Supply Chain Management
Why is Analytics Important in a supply chain?
Relating Operations Management with Supply chain concepts with SC Analytics
The importance of supply chain analytics in the flows involving material, money, information
and ownership

Week 2: Supply chain analytics

Key issues in supply chain analytics
What involves in supply chain analytics
Concept of Descriptive Analytics in a Supply Chain
Discussion on a Few Supply Chains Analytics applications in India (students participation is
expected)
Decision Domains in in supply chain analytics

Week 3: Foundation of Business Anlaytics (BA)

E2: Introduction to Modeling, Approaches for Optimization and Simulation, Modeling
software, Supply Chain (SC) Decisions that requires mathematical or interpretative
modelingUnderstanding of Data and its role in Analytics
Analytics of a Transportation problem in a Supply Chain
Managerial implication of results of analytics

Week 4: A CASE STUDY OF SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYTICS

Week 5: Foundation of PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS IN NETWORK PLANNING IN A

SUPPLY CHAIN
Network Planning in a Supply Chain
Importance of Network Planning
Design of Logistics Network using Heuristics/optimization (Exercise 3.4 Levi (2008))
Concept of 3PL/4PL in a Supply Chain
Case Study: GATI

Week 6: Foundation of Modeling Coordination Decisions in SUPPLY CHAIN

MANAGEMENT

Week 7: Foundation of PERFORMACE MANAGEMENT IN SUPPLY CHAIN

MANAGEMENT

Week 8: IT ENABLEMENT OF SUPPLY CHAINS

Role of ICT in Supply chains
Suggested reading

Supply chain management by Sunil Chopra, and Peter Meindl, Pearson

Jeremy F. Shapiro. Modeling the Supply Chain. Duxbury Thomson Learning

D. Simchi-Levi, P. Kaminsky, E. Simchi-Levi, and Ravi Shankar, Designing and Managing

the Supply Chain concepts, Strategies and Case studies, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill,
New Delhi, 2008.

Rahul Saxena • Anand Srinivasan, Business Analytics

Journals

Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (Available on

www.emaraldinsight.com)
Supply Chain Management Review
Purchasing World
International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

Certification Exam

The exam is optional for a fee. Exams will be on 23 April 2017.

Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for
registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid.
More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

Certificate

Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of
8 weeks course: Best 6 out of 8 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than
or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the
final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-
verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.