Email: fb10001@astra.xlri.ac.in
Mobile: (0)8594823288
Session 12: Information Asymmetry in a Supply Chain: Bullwhip Effect
Pre-Reading for the class:
"Information distortion in a supply chain: the bullwhip effect." By Lee, Hau L., Venkata Padmanabhan, and
Seungjin Whang. Management science 50.12_supplement (2004): 1875-1886 (Can be downloaded from scholar.google.com). "Bullwhip effect in supply chains." By Scukanec, Andelko, Kristijan Rogic, and Darko Babic. Promet TrafficTraffico 19.5 (2007) (Can be downloaded from scholar.google.com).
Session 13: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks: An example of Algorithm development for transportation with Milk run and Clerk-Wright saving Algorithm
Pre-Reading for the class:
Chapter 13: Transportation in a Supply Chain of Supply chain management: Strategy, Planning and
Operation by Sunil Chopra & Peter Meindl, Pearson, 5th edition
Chapter 13: Physical Distribution of Introduction to Materials Management Sixth Edition by J. R. Tony Arnold,
Stephen N. Chapman and Llyod M. Clive (Reference Book)
Clerk-Wright Saving Algorithm related Material (Will be provided by faculty)
Case: Metal Specialties, INC. (Reference Book) [Group 2 will present on the same in the next class]
Session 14: Principles of Warehouse Management
Pre-Reading for the class:
Chapter 13: Warehouse Management of “Logistical Management” by Donald J. Bowersox and David J. Closs
(Reference Book)
Chapter 12: Physical Inventory and Warehouse Management of Introduction to Materials Management Sixth
Edition by J. R. Tony Arnold, Stephen N. Chapman and Llyod M. Clive (Reference Book)
Case: CostMart Warehouse (Reference Book) [Group 3 will present on the same in the next class]
Module 4: Cross-functional Issues in Supply Chain (Contains 7 Classes)
Session 15: Supply Chain Relationships; Channel Structure
Pre-Reading for the class:
Chapter 4: Supply Chain Relationships of “Logistical Management” by Donald J. Bowersox and David