MBA Operations (III Semester) Subjects: 1. Logistics & Supply Chain Management. 2. Materials Management. 3.

Operations Planning & Control 4. Material Handling & Transportation. 5. International Business 6. Business process Re engineering & Benchmarking. 7. Strategic Management. 8. World Class Manufacturing Practises. 9. Technology Management. 10. Industrial Engineering Applications & Management. 11. Quantitative Methods for Operations. Details of Logistics and Supply Chain Management: - Designing distribution network in a supply chain a) The role of distribution in the supply chain. b) Factors influencing distribution network design. c) Design option for distribution network. d) Distribution network in practice. - Inventory Management risk pooling a) Introduction b) A single warehouse inventory example c) The economic lot size model. d) The effect of demand uncertainty e) Risk pooling f) Centralized versus recentralized systems. g) Managing inventory in the supply chain. - The value information a) Introduction b) Bullwhip effect c) Effective forecasts d) Information for the coordination of systems. e) Locating desired products f) Lead time reduction. g) Information and supply chain trade-off. h) Designing the supply chain for conflicting goals. - Strategic Alliances a) Introduction b) A framework for strategic alliances. c) Third party / fourth party logistics d) What are 3PL/4PL Advantages and disadvantages or 3PL, 3PL issues and requirements? e) Retailer supplier partnership f) Types of RSP, Requirements of RSP. Inventory ownership In RSP. Issues and steps in RSP implementation, Advantages and disadvantages of RSP. g) Distribution Integration, Types of and issues In Distribution Integration.

- E-procurement and outsourcing a) Introduction b) Outsourcing benefits and risks. c) A framework for Buy / Make decisions. d) E-procurement e) A framework of E-procurement. - Procurement Management in Supply Chain a) New Paradigms in Inventory and purchase management b) Just in time, Elements and benefits of JIT systems. c) Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) d) VMI Business Model. e) Steps in setting up VMI, Benefits, challenges and limitations of VMI. f) Overcoming limitations of VMI