ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Paper Code: 
: MTX-224
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

      1. To develop ability to understand the role of Supply Chain Management.

2. To enable students to understand and learn the various aspects of Supply Chain

     Management and their application.

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

·         Definition of entrepreneur, characteristics, role of entrepreneur in industrial development

·         Opportunities for entrepreneurship,

  • Meaning and definition of SSI, importance, government policies for SSI, Institutional support to SSI at state and national level
10.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

·         Role of Supply Chain Management: Scope and importance, concepts and principles of supply chain management

·         Need for an integrated supply chain in the fashion industry, structural design of a fashion supply chain.

·         Information and technology in supply chain management,

  • SCM enabling technologies: EDI, EPOS, item coding, EFT, activity based costing, etc. The applications of the information and technology for the SCM in the fashion industry.
10.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

·         Supply chain management decisions

·         Marketing decisions: product management strategy, pricing strategy, and promotion strategy.

·         Sourcing decisions: value analysis, sourcing options, sourcing priority, and sourcing criteria.

  • Logistics decisions: transportation strategy, warehousing strategy and inventory strategy.
8.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

·         Developing and maintaining supply chain relationships

·         Conceptual Model of Strategic Alliance/Strategic Network.

·          Characteristics of strategic alliances/strategic network in the supply chain.

  • Creating and sustaining strategic alliances in supply chain relationships.
8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

·         Contemporary issues in the fashion supply chain management

  • SCM practices in the global trade. Sharing risks in inter-organizational relationships.
Essential Readings: 
  1. Peggy A.Lambing, Entreprenurship, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall,1999.
  2. Donald J. Bowersox & David J. Closs, Logistical Management, Tata McGraw-Hill Editions, New Delhi, 2000.
  3. Jeremy F. Shapiro, Modelling and Supply Chain, Thomson Learning, 2001.
  4. Martin Christopher, Logistics and supply chain management, Financial times management, 2000.
  5. David Taylor and David Brunt, Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vikas Thomson Learning, 2001.
  6. Philippe - Pierre Dornier, Global operations & logistics, John Wiley & sons Inc, New York, 2002.
  7. Monczka / Trend / Handfiled, Purchasing and Supply chain management, Thomson south- western college publishing, 2000.
  8. B.S. Sahay, Supply chain management for global competitiveness, Macmillan India Ltd, Delhi, 2000.
  9. David Hutchins, Just in Time, Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2001
  10. David Simchi – Levi & Philip Kaminsk, Designing and Managing the supply chain, McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., 2000.

 

Academic Year: 
2014-15
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