Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Integrative Learning is
integration of virtual
University Students
academic and workplace
learning.
Learning Methodology
• Part I Introduction to SCM, Logistics, Purchasing &
Supply Management and Strategic Frame Work.
• Part II Designing the Supply Chain.
• Part III Planning and Managing Supply and
Demand and Inventory levels in a Supply Chain.
• Part IV Planning and Managing Inventories in
Supply Chain.
• Part V Designing and Planning Transportation
Networks.
• Part VI Managing Cross Functional Drivers in a
Supply Chain.
• Such a framework helps clarify supply chain
goals and identify managerial actions that
improve supply chain performance in terms
of the desired goals.
• Part IV Planning and Managing Inventory
levels in a Supply Chain
– Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain :
Cycle Inventory.
– Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain Safety
Inventory.
– Determining the Optimal Level of Product
Availability.
• Goal of Part IV is to describe the role
that inventory plays in a supply chain
and discuss actions that managers
can take to decrease inventories
without increasing cost or hurting
the level of product availability.