Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

Course Outline

Course Title : International Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

Credits : 1.0
Type : Compulsory / Elective
Session Duration : 75 minutes
Term : VI
Year : 2020
Faculty : Dr. Ashwani Kumar
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Introduction
The course is designed to introduce the students about the key issues of purchasing,
material procurement and supply chain issues for a business organization. Following are
the salient features of the course.
● To explain purchasing, procurement, buyer-supplier relation and its importance in a
supply chain of a business organization
● To understand the varying nature and the importance of purchasing and materials
procurement for a business organization
● To understand changes in environmental conditions and its impact on purchasing and
materials procurement for a business organization
● To discuss the standard steps in a purchasing process
● To understand the strategic importance of purchasing
● To list different types of purchasing strategy
● To understand materials procurement optimization process
● To understand buyer-supplier relation
● To rate supplier performance and evaluation
● To discuss vital and critical issues in supplier selection
● To address key issues in supplier development
● To understand sourcing process and decision makings
● To study the trends in suppliers management
● To discuss and apply supplier selection models
● To apply methods of evaluating supplier performance in a single period and multi-
period
● To discuss JIT and MRP
● To demonstrate the quality issues in purchasing and materials procurement

Pedagogy
The pedagogy would be a mix of Lecture, Discussion, Group exercises in class, Case
Analysis, Assignments, Quizzes and Project Work.

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 Evaluation Scheme
Assessment/Quizzes 10 %
Project work & Presentation 20 %
Class Participation 10%
End Term Exam 60 %

Brief Outline
The course is designed to introduce the students about the key issues of purchasing,
material procurement and supply chain issues for a business organization.

References
1. Text Book: Lysons, K. and Farrington, B. Purchasing and supply chain management
(Pearson Education Ltd.):
2. Other Readings (To be arranged by students)
● Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Handfield, R. B., Purchasing and Supply Chain
Management (Prentice Hall).
● F. Robert Jacobs, William Berry, D. Clay Whybark, Thomas Vollmann,
Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management

Special Instructions
Please read and prepare well in advance for case presentation & discussion in the class.
Case for each session is indicated in the Session Plan. The sessions will be of 75 minutes
duration. R indicates additional readings. C indicates cases.

Session Plan
Topic Session Topic and Sub-topics Reference (Book chapter / Page Instructor
No. No. numbers from the book/Additional
readings)
1 1 Introduction on Chapter 1: Purchasing and Dr.
Purchasing and supply chain management by Ashwani
Materials .Lysons, K. and Farrington, B. Kumar
Procurement in
Supply Chain
2 2 Purchasing https://www.mckinsey.com/ind Dr.
strategies for ustries/public-and-social- Ashwani
Government and sector/our-insights/improving- Kumar
private firms public-sector-purchasing#
https://sipmm.edu.sg/contrasti
ng-procurement-practices-
between-private-public-sector/
3 3 Materials Chapter 16: Purchasing and Dr.
procurement: Role Supply chain management by Ashwani
of inventory cost in Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
procurement Handfield, R. B
4 4-5 Materials Reading: Dr.

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 procurement using https://www.asprova.jp/mrp/gloss Ashwani
various lot size ary/en/cat248/post-693.html Kumar
policy
5 6 Joint items Reading: Flores, B.E. and Clay Dr.
procurement Whybark, D. (1986), "Multiple Ashwani
method and Multi- Criteria ABC Kumar
criteria ABC Analysis", International Journal of
Operations & Production
analysis
Management, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 38-
46.
6 7-8 Procuring materials Chapter 16: Purchasing and Dr.
under uncertain Supply chain management by Ashwani
demand and lead Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
time in supply Handfield, R. B
chain
7 9-10 Negotiation and Chapter 13: Purchasing and Dr.
conflict Supply chain management by Ashwani
management Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
Handfield, R. B
8 11-12 World-wide Chapter 10: Purchasing and Dr.
sourcing Supply chain management by Ashwani
Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
Handfield, R. B
9 13, 14 Materials Chapter 16: Purchasing and Dr.
Requirement Supply chain management by Ashwani
Planning (MRP) Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
Handfield, R. B
10 15 Buyer-Supplier Chapter 4: Purchasing and Dr.
relation and its Supply chain management by Ashwani
impact in Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
purchasing Handfield, R. B
11 16 Evaluating and Chapter 7: Purchasing and Dr.
selecting suppliers Supply chain management by Ashwani
Monczka, R. M., Trent, R. J., and Kumar
Handfield, R. B
12 17 Suppliers ranking Readings: Supplier selection using Dr.
using AHP and fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS: a case study Ashwani
TOPSIS in the Indian automotive industry. Kumar
https://link.springer.com/article/10
.1007/s00521-016-2533-z

13 18 Suppliers ranking Reading: Leagile supplier selection Dr.

using DEMATEL in Chinese textile industries: a Ashwani
DEMATEL approach Kumar

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14 19-20 Presentations Group project presentation