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.

Unit I: 
Course inputs:
  • 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 9 hrs

Unit II: 
Course Inputs:
  • 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 hrs

 

Unit III: 
Course Inputs:
  • 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. 10 hrs

Unit IV: 
Course Inputs:
  • 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 hrs

Unit V: 
Course Inputs:
  • Contemporary issues in the fashion supply chain management

SCM practices in the global trade. Sharing risks in inter-organizational relationships. 8 hrs

Academic Year: 
2014-15
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