The specialisation in Operations provides the students an opportunity to pursue their academic interests in the Area of Operations/Supply Chain Management (SCM). The area focuses on designing, operating, and improving the productive systems-the systems that produce and deliver products and/or services. Organizations perform transformational processes of various types, for example, physical (as in manufacturing), locational (as in transportation or warehousing), exchange (as in retailing), etc. The specialisation enables participants to ensure that these transformation processes are performed efficiently and that the output is of greater value than the sum of the inputs.
The operations major focuses on the two very broad disciplines of (a) Supply Chain Management (SCM) and (b) Project Management. The three courses related to Supply Chain Management area have been designed to develop capabilities to manage the flow of goods, services, and information through the supply chain in an integrated manner in order to make the chain responsive to customer needs while lowering total costs. The Project Management course, on the other hand, focuses on developing capabilities to plan and control large projects within the resource and budget constraints while keeping them on schedule.
The career opportunities for the operations majors start with the positions of purchasing managers, plant/production manager, logistics managers, warehouse managers, distribution center manager, business process improvement analyst, project manager, hospital administrators, branch manager (in a bank), etc. The participants can hope to rise rapidly to the positions like chief operating officer and chief supply chain officer in large multinationals.
In this specialisation the students are exposed to a wide range of core courses through which they achieve a holistic learning of Business administration while focusing on an in-depth study of Operations/SCM through the major. Throughout the specialisation a strategic application perspective has been incorporated and emphasized to provide the students with both a conceptual foundation along with an exposure to real life business scenarios. Hands-on training on various modules of an ERP system further enhances learning; and makes students ready to be productive from day one in the corporate world.
Along with advanced courses in Operations, capstone courses in Business Management like corporate governance, Ethics, Business Strategy are also offered to develop a holistic and an integrated view of business, its ethical aspects and its effective governance. Along with electives in Business management, a project in the area of Operations domain can be undertaken which can provide the students with exposure to real life applications in the domain and an overall understanding of the work environment.
SPECIALISATION AIMS
The Operations Major and Minor intends to:
- Demonstrate basic knowledge in accounting, economics, finance, management, Entrepreneurship, and marketing in application of concepts and theories.
- Integrate the concepts of the core areas of business and apply it in various contexts.
- Understand the importance of the ethics in business activities.
- Provide an in-depth understanding of the strategic importance of operations and supply chain management in a global business environment.
- Provide in-depth understanding of how an operations function relates to and impacts other business functions.
- Impart the ability to conceptualize how systems are interrelated, organize activities effectively, analyze processes critically, make decisions based on data, and push for continual process improvement.
- Make participants understand the overall structures of different types of supply chains and how they are managed.
- Make participants understand the procurement cycle, manufacturing cycle, replenishment cycle, and customer order cycle in detail.
- Provide in-depth understanding of warehousing, material handling, logistical packaging and transportation.
- Impart knowledge and skills to conceive, select, plan and implement projects in a systematic way.
MAJOR OUTCOMES: After successful completion of the Major, the student will be able to:
- Develop a sound understanding of how the operations function is integrated with other organisational functions
- To provide students with an appreciation of the operations function of an organisation
- Develop an integrated approach to understand and drive sustainable growth in the long run.
- To demonstrate how tools and techniques within the operations function improve organisational effectiveness and efficiency
- To equip students with concepts, frameworks, and models to improve organisational effectiveness
- Demonstrate the technical skills required for solving business problems, including using relevant tools/platforms and commercial programming languages
- Identify and apply knowledge acquired in the classroom on different domains such as supply chain, finance, marketing and human resources
- Articulate research ideas from futuristic topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning etc.
MINOR OUTCOMES: After successful completion of the Minor, the student will be able to:
- Develop a sound understanding of how the operations function is integrated with other organisational functions
- To provide students with an appreciation of the operations function of an organisation
- To demonstrate how tools and techniques within the operations function improve organisational effectiveness and efficiency
- To equip students with concepts, frameworks, and models to improve organisational effectiveness
38 MAJOR COURSES
| Introduction to Operations Research | Operations Management | Data Analytics Services |
| Introduction to Finance and Accounting | Supply Chain Management | E-Commerce |
| Consumer & Markets | Design Thinking for Managers | Enterprise Data Management |
| Introduction to People Management | Enterprise Risk Management | Special Topics: Operations Management |
| Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Family Business | Business Ethics and Corporate Governance | Production Planning & Control |
| Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling | Supply Chain Design and Sourcing | Lean Concepts for Managers |
| Introduction to Quantitative Methods | Logistics Management | Gamification |
| Managerial Economics | Advanced Operations Research | Special Topics: Operations Management |
| Accounting for Managers | Negotiations | Advanced Supply Chain Management |
| Marketing Management | Special Topics: Operations Management | Six Sigma and Operational Excellence |
| Organisational Behaviour | Business Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy | Special Topics: Operations Management |
| Research Methods for Managers | Business Applications of Analytics | Graduation Project |
| Financial Management | Project Management |
Introduction to Operations Research
The course exposes students to fundamental optimization procedures and techniques to attain skills at structuring business problems and modelling them as a mathematical program, Microsoft Excel to solve such models, interpret solutions and use the solutions to answer the business problem. The focus of this course will be on applications of quantitative methods in modelling business situations.
Introduction to Finance and Accounting
The course is aimed at baptising the students to the vocabularies of accounting theories and practices. Begining with the accounting concepts, introducing the basic tenets in maintaining the books of accounts, the course finally culminates into the preparation of the financial statements like Income statement, Balance Sheet as well as the Cash flow statement. It also covers the Bank reconcilation statement and Bills of Exchange
Consumer & Markets
This course provides a conceptual framework to the students to understand the various dimensions of marketing as a disciline. It focuses on exploring various aspects of marketing, markets, consumers, their shopping behaviour and motivations. It gives broad understanding of the exciting world of Shop, Shopping and Shopper.
Introduction to People Management
The course familiarizes students with the history and functions of management. It gives an overview of the various functions of human resource management and the concepts of organizational behaviour. It prepares students to go deeper into the area of people management equipping them with the basic background knowledge.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Family Business
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship and family businesses. It provides an overview on how they come into being, their perspective on the ecosystem, their mindset and how they manage their enterprises.
Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling
This course deals with the use of the Spreadsheet to solve managerial problems. It merely highlights the use of Microsoft Excel as an aid in formulating business problems and invoking appropriate functions to resolve them.
Introduction to Quantitative Methods
This course is designed to give undergraduate students an introduction to decison making. The use of quantitative techniques is increasingly being adopted in all areas of human endeavour. The need to collect, analyze and interpret mathematical output is increasingly being appreciated for arriving at conclusions or in strategic decision making. This course will deal with fundamental concepts required to model, analyse and solve quantitative problems arising in any discipline. A student undertaking this course can have little to no formal introduction to mathematics and statistics at the higher secondary level.
Managerial Economics
This course provides a foundation of economic theories and models for use in managerial decision-making. The course provides students with an overview of theories of demand, supply, production and competition and equips them with the tools and techniques to make effective economic decisions under different business environments.
Accounting for Managers
Financial accounting provides the means of recording and reporting financial information in a business. Accounting plays a vital role as an information system for monitoring, problem solving and decision-making. This course provides the fundamentals of Financial Accounting and goes on to demonstrate how accounting fits into the overall business environment of an organization. In addition to this, Management Accounting systems, which have a strong internal focus can be effective tools in providing information that is useful in decision making at all levels in the organization. Management accountants play a strategic role in developing and providing both financial and non-financial information that is critical to the success of an organization.
Marketing Management
This course provides a conceptual framework to the students to understand the function of marketing in an organization. The course helps students to apply the marketing concepts and theories to solve case studies and projects. The course makes them vigilant of the marketing happenings in the real world and therefore importance of creating effective marketing strategies.
Organisational Behaviour
This course is an introduction to organizational behaviour for undergraduates. It discusses behaviour in organizations at individual, group & organizational levels and provides an understanding of the underlying aspects that drive behavior. It provides insights into the different theories and their application in the organizational context. It also enables students to understand theutilisation of different tools and practices in directing individual actions towards organizational objectives.
Research Methods for Managers
The objective of the course is to enable students to understand the role and importance of research in improving managerial decisions when faced with uncertainty. Research methods are applied in all functional areas of business viz. operation management, accounting, finance and marketing. The issue facing managers is not a shortage of information but how to use the available information to make better decisions. Learning this course helps students recognise that data are inherently variable and that the identification measurement, control, and reduction of variation provide opportunities for quality improvement.
Financial Management
This course in Financial Management provides a detailed understanding of the Finance Function and its interrelationship with other areas of Business. It seeks to develop the foundation for financial management concepts. It primarily helps the student to understand how businesses make investment, Financing, working capital management and dividend decisions and what are the key factors that influence these decisions.
Operations Management
The aim of this course is to inculcate key concepts, basic issues, capabilities, limitations, and tools/technologies related to the operations function.
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course helps participants understand the key concepts, strategies, tools, and technologies related to Supply Chain Management. The overall structures of different types of supply chains and the techniques used to manage them are covered in adequate detail. The four supply chain cycles, namely the procurement cycle, manufacturing cycle, replenishment cycle and customer order cycle, are included to give a wholistic picture of the business operations.
Design Thinking for Managers
Design Thinking (DT) is a powerful tool to tackle the unstructured & the unknown. DT is a ‘human centered’ approach to problem solving which emerged at Stanford in the 1960’s primarily as a systematic, immersive approach to product design. In recent years, it was found that these approaches can be extended to a wide category of ill-structured, real world problems, both in emerging and developed markets alike. DT is getting increasingly popular not only across top corporates, but also in rural, semi-urban and underserved sections of society. Given the diversity of challenges that we face today, it therefore becomes necessary to have thinkers and doers who can focus on addressing such challenges. DT helps in building those capabilities.
Enterprise Risk Management
Risk management has traditionally been associated with financial institutions, banking, and insurance businesses. In today's business world, whether large or small, risk management is a crucial success factor. Enterprise risk management encompasses risk-based decision making in its essence. The increased likelihood of a startup's survival and the development of a resource-efficient growth model can be ascribed to risk-based decision making. This course's objectives are to increase participants' risk awareness and instil a culture of risk management. In this comprehensive course, students will gain an in-depth understanding of enterprise risk management (ERM).
Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
The course aims to develop in the student a clear perspective on the role and responsibilities of business in society. It helps the student understand the role of ethics in business. It also dwells on corporate governance frameworks and their relevance to contemporary business environment.
Supply Chain Design and Sourcing
The Supply Chain Design and Sourcing (SCDS) course focuses on the key concepts, tools, and technologies related to supply chain strategy formulation, strategic sourcing, and advanced supply management (purchasing). The course is designed to help participants understand the linkages between the competitive strategy of the firm and the supply chain strategy. The techniques used to mass customize products for the end consumer are covered in great detail. The purchasing process, strategic sourcing, and portfolio approach to sourcing are also included.
Logistics Management
The Logistics Management course will help the participants understand how logistics is managed in the modern global supply chains on the inbound and outbound sides; and what techniques are employed to make supply chains lean and efficient. Industrial packaging (unitizarion, palletization, and containerization), and all of the modes of transportation (rail, road, marine, and air) are covered in detail. Logistics documentation for national and international trade are also studied. Other topics covered in the course include warehousing, inventory management, and logistics service providers.
Advanced Operations Research
The course exposes students to advanced optimization techniques to model and solve complex business problems. Microsoft Excel will continue to be used to solve these problems, and the student is expected to have completed the prerequisite courses. The focus of this course will be on applications of quantitative methods in modelling business situations.
Negotiations
Negotiation is a commonly used and vital tool to make decisions in the organizational context. Based on the position and role of an employee, he or she has to engage in some kind of negotiation at one point of time or the other. Negotiation is driven by assumptions, perceptions and understanding about human behavior. This course would be designed to familiarize future professionals and managers about when to engage in negotiation, how to understand the negotiation partner, what negotiation technique to use at what point in time and how to develop negotiation skills.
Business Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
In a rapidly changing business environment, Innovation has been recognised as one of the key drivers of competitive advantage. This course is an introduction to the concept of innovation for corporate managers and entrepreneurs.
Business Applications of Analytics
This course provides advanced techniques in statistics. Business applications generate large amounts of unstructured data. This data needs visulaization techniques for ease of interpretation and handling. Further, rigorous statistical analysis is needed to convert it into information, knowledge and models readily applicable to real life applications. This course aims to give students a good understanding of the underlying concepts of statistical data analysis along with data visualization techniques. The pedagogy will include case-studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving activities that helps in equipping the student with the skills required in the workforce.
Project Management
The Project Management course helps students understand how the large-scale projects are conceptualized, planned and executed in a systematic way. The course covers the generation and screening of project ideas, assessment of techno-economic feasibility of the projects, project appraisal techniques, project financing (including infrastructure finance), project planning and control using network techniques (PERT and CPM), cost control and quality control, crashing of activities for optimising project costs vis-a-vis project schedule, computerized project management (using Microsoft Project), and risk management for projects.
Data Analytics Services
Analytics as a Service brings the advantages of data analysis within reach of more companies. In addition to reducing the burden on in-house IT staff, AaaS reduces risk.AaaS is also an option if a business has on-premises resources for analytics, but needs expanded, temporary capabilities to analyze additional data or to research a one-time event or project. Data analysis services allow businesses to get their data collected, processed and presented to them in the form of actionable insights while avoiding investments in the development and administration of an analytics solution. With subscription-based data analysis, or Analytics as a Service, businesses carry out data analysis on a fully customized analytics platforms. The course focuses on analysing the specific business needs and give recommendations on designing, developing, implementing or upgrading your analytics solution. Case studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving exercises will be included in the pedagogy to assist students obtain the skills needed for employment.
E-Commerce
Today ecommerce happens to be an integral part of our daily life and one of the most effective channels for marketers. Especially with COVID pandemic, this model of buying and selling has proliferated extremely fast across the world. Today every budding manager needs to understand various aspects of ecommerce. This course will cover several fundamental concepts related to ecommerce needed for business students. The approach will involve case studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving exercises to assist students acquire the skills necessary for the profession.
Enterprise Data Management
Enterprise data management (EDM) is the process of inventorying and governing your business’s data and getting your organization onboard with the process. In other words, EDM is as much about managing people as it is about managing data. Data management means making sure your people have the accurate and timely data they need, and that they follow your standards for storing quality data in a standardized, secure, and governed place. In this course, the students learn the basic and detailed frameworks and concepts as well as the case scenarios about implementations of enterprise data management. The pedagogy will include case-studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving activities that helps in equipping the student with the skills required in the workforce.
Production Planning & Control
This course covers how the production planning is done in large manufacturing organizations using ERP and SCM software package. It covers the entire process starting from Strategic and Business Planning, Resource Requirements Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirements Planning, MRP Outputs and Order Release, and Order Management Proces in detail.
Lean Concepts for Managers
This course will introduce the student to the traditional and lean methods of managing their organizations. With a basic understanding in operations management, the scholar will be able to identify opportunities for eliminating and reducing wastes, thereby increasing the value delivered to the customer.
Gamification
Learn how fashion and luxury companies work and understand their brands, products, retail, and communication strategies. Travel through business models, international development, and product categories with industry influent experts.
Adopting a case-study approach, the course presents strategic brand management in luxury and fashion companies as a balancing act: tradition vs. innovation, expertise vs. experimentation, casual vs. stylish; in order to increase the brand value by nurturing the brand heritage and at the same time staying fresh, relevant, and contemporary in the global marketplace.
Topics such as the impact of new retail channels, new media channels, and new business declinations for the brand and emerging markets will be discussed in the course
Advanced Supply Chain Management
This course covers certain advanced topics related to Supply Chain Management. It aims to familiarize students with the concepts related to retail industry initiatives for SCM, e.g., Quick Response, Efficient Consumer Response, Vendor Managed Inventory, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment. It also covers in detail Supply Chain Risk Management & BCM, Finally, it deals with the sustainability issues in Supply Chain Management.
Six Sigma and Operational Excellence
The course is an introductory course in Six Sigma and Operational Excellence. It helps students learn practical tools, methods, and concepts to improve operations within and across the supply chains.
30 MINOR COURSES
| Introduction to Operations Research | Operations Management | E-Commerce |
| Introduction to Finance and Accounting | Supply Chain Management | Enterprise Data Management |
| Consumer & Markets | Enterprise Risk Management | Special Topics: Operations Management |
| Introduction to People Management | Supply Chain Design and Sourcing | Production Planning & Control |
| Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Family Business | Logistics Management | Lean Concepts for Managers |
| Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling | Advanced Operations Research | Gamification |
| Introduction to Quantitative Methods | Special Topics: Operations Management | Special Topics: Operations Management |
| Managerial Economics | Business Applications of Analytics | Advanced Supply Chain Management |
| Marketing Management | Project Management | Six Sigma and Operational Excellence |
| Organisational Behaviour | Data Analytics Services | Special Topics: Operations Management |
Introduction to Operations Research
The course exposes students to fundamental optimization procedures and techniques to attain skills at structuring business problems and modelling them as a mathematical program, Microsoft Excel to solve such models, interpret solutions and use the solutions to answer the business problem. The focus of this course will be on applications of quantitative methods in modelling business situations.
Introduction to Finance and Accounting
The course is aimed at baptising the students to the vocabularies of accounting theories and practices. Beginning with the accounting concepts, introducing the basic tenets in maintaining the books of accounts, the course finally culminates into the preparation of the financial statements like Income statement, Balance Sheet as well as the Cash flow statement. It also covers the Bank reconciliation statement and Bills of Exchange
Consumer & Markets
This course provides a conceptual framework to the students to understand the various dimensions of marketing as a disciline. It focuses on exploring various aspects of marketing, markets, consumers, their shopping behaviour and motivations. It gives broad understanding of the exciting world of Shop, Shopping and Shopper.
Introduction to People Management
The course familiarizes students with the history and functions of management. It gives an overview of the various functions of human resource management and the concepts of organizational behaviour. It prepares students to go deeper into the area of people management equipping them with the basic background knowledge.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Family Business
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship and family businesses. It provides an overview on how they come into being, their perspective on the ecosystem, their mindset and how they manage their enterprises.
Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling
This course deals with the use of the Spreadsheet to solve managerial problems. It merely highlights the use of Microsoft Excel as an aid in formulating business problems and invoking appropriate functions to resolve them.
Introduction to Quantitative Methods
This course is designed to give undergraduate students an introduction to decision making. The use of quantitative techniques is increasingly being adopted in all areas of human endeavour. The need to collect, analyze and interpret mathematical output is increasingly being appreciated for arriving at conclusions or in strategic decision making. This course will deal with fundamental concepts required to model, analyse and solve quantitative problems arising in any discipline. A student undertaking this course can have little to no formal introduction to mathematics and statistics at the higher secondary level.
Managerial Economics
This course provides a foundation of economic theories and models for use in managerial decision-making. The course provides students with an overview of theories of demand, supply, production and competition and equips them with the tools and techniques to make effective economic decisions under different business environments.
Marketing Management
This course provides a conceptual framework to the students to understand the function of marketing in an organization. The course helps students to apply the marketing concepts and theories to solve case studies and projects. The course makes them vigilant of the marketing happenings in the real world and therefore importance of creating effective marketing strategies.
Organisational Behaviour
This course is an introduction to organizational behaviour for undergraduates. It discusses behaviour in organizations at individual, group & organizational levels and provides an understanding of the underlying aspects that drive behavior. It provides insights into the different theories and their application in the organizational context. It also enables students to understand theutilisation of different tools and practices in directing individual actions towards organizational objectives.
Operations Management
The aim of this course is to inculcate key concepts, basic issues, capabilities, limitations, and tools/technologies related to the operations function.
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course helps participants understand the key concepts, strategies, tools, and technologies related to Supply Chain Management. The overall structures of different types of supply chains and the techniques used to manage them are covered in adequate detail. The four supply chain cycles, namely the procurement cycle, manufacturing cycle, replenishment cycle and customer order cycle, are included to give a wholistic picture of the business operations.
Enterprise Risk Management
Risk management has traditionally been associated with financial institutions, banking, and insurance businesses. In today's business world, whether large or small, risk management is a crucial success factor. Enterprise risk management encompasses risk-based decision making in its essence. The increased likelihood of a startup's survival and the development of a resource-efficient growth model can be ascribed to risk-based decision making. This course's objectives are to increase participants' risk awareness and instill a culture of risk management. In this comprehensive course, students will gain an in-depth understanding of enterprise risk management (ERM).
Supply Chain Design and Sourcing
The Supply Chain Design and Sourcing (SCDS) course focuses on the key concepts, tools, and technologies related to supply chain strategy formulation, strategic sourcing, and advanced supply management (purchasing). The course is designed to help participants understand the linkages between the competitive strategy of the firm and the supply chain strategy. The techniques used to mass customize products for the end consumer are covered in great detail. The purchasing process, strategic sourcing, and portfolio approach to sourcing are also included.
Logistics Management
The Logistics Management course will help the participants understand how logistics is managed in the modern global supply chains on the inbound and outbound sides; and what techniques are employed to make supply chains lean and efficient. Industrial packaging (unitizarion, palletization, and containerization), and all of the modes of transportation (rail, road, marine, and air) are covered in detail. Logistics documentation for national and international trade are also studied. Other topics covered in the course include warehousing, inventory management, and logistics service providers.
Advanced Operations Research
The course exposes students to advanced optimization techniques to model and solve complex business problems. Microsoft Excel will continue to be used to solve these problems, and the student is expected to have completed the prerequisite courses. The focus of this course will be on applications of quantitative methods in modelling business situations.
Business Applications of Analytics
This course provides advanced techniques in statistics. Business applications generate large amounts of unstructured data. This data needs visulaization techniques for ease of interpretation and handling. Further, rigorous statistical analysis is needed to convert it into information, knowledge and models readily applicable to real life applications. This course aims to give students a good understanding of the undelying concepts of statistical data analysis along with data visualization techniques. The pedagogy will include case-studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving activities that helps in equipping the student with the skills required in the workforce.
Project Management
The Project Management course helps students understand how the large-scale projects are conceptualized, planned and executed in a systematic way. The course covers the generation and screening of project ideas, assessment of techno-economic feasibility of the projects, project appraisal techniques, project financing (including infrastructure finance), project planning and control using network techniques (PERT and CPM), cost control and quality control, crashing of activities for optimising project costs vis-a-vis project schedule, computerized project management (using Microsoft Project), and risk management for projects.
Data Analytics Services
Analytics as a Service brings the advantages of data analysis within reach of more companies. In addition to reducing the burden on in-house IT staff, AaaS reduces risk.AaaS is also an option if a business has on-premises resources for analytics, but needs expanded, temporary capabilities to analyze additional data or to research a one-time event or project. Data analysis services allow businesses to get their data collected, processed and presented to them in the form of actionable insights while avoiding investments in the development and administration of an analytics solution. With subscription-based data analysis, or Analytics as a Service, businesses carry out data analysis on a fully customized analytics platform. The course focuses on analysing the specific business needs and give recommendations on designing, developing, implementing or upgrading your analytics solution. Case studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving exercises will be included in the pedagogy to assist students obtain the skills needed for employment.
E-Commerce
Today ecommerce happens to be an integral part of our daily life and one of the most effective channels for marketers. Especially with COVID pandemic, this model of buying and selling has proliferated extremely fast across the world. Today every budding manager needs to understand various aspects of ecommerce. This course will cover several fundamental concepts related to ecommerce needed for business students. The approach will involve case studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving exercises to assist students acquire the skills necessary for the profession.
Enterprise Data Management
Enterprise data management (EDM) is the process of inventorying and governing your business’s data and getting your organization onboard with the process. In other words, EDM is as much about managing people as it is about managing data. Data management means making sure your people have the accurate and timely data they need, and that they follow your standards for storing quality data in a standardized, secure, and governed place. In this course, the students learn the basic and detailed frameworks and concepts as well as the case scenarios about implementations of enterprise data management. The pedagogy will include case-studies, hands-on learning, and real-world problem-solving activities that helps in equipping the student with the skills required in the workforce.
Production Planning & Control
This course covers how the production planning is done in large manufacturing organizations using ERP and SCM software package. It covers the entire process starting from Strategic and Business Planning, Resource Requirements Planning, Sales and Operations Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirements Planning, MRP Outputs and Order Release, and Order Management Proces in detail.
Lean Concepts for Managers
This course will introduce the student to the traditional and lean methods of managing their organizations. With a basic understanding in operations management, the scholar will be able to identify opportunities for eliminating and reducing wastes, thereby increasing the value delivered to the customer.
Gamification
Learn how fashion and luxury companies work and understand their brands, products, retail, and communication strategies. Travel through business models, international development, and product categories with industry influent experts.
Adopting a case-study approach, the course presents strategic brand management in luxury and fashion companies as a balancing act: tradition vs. innovation, expertise vs. experimentation, casual vs. stylish; in order to increase the brand value by nurturing the brand heritage and at the same time staying fresh, relevant, and contemporary in the global marketplace.
Topics such as the impact of new retail channels, new media channels, and new business declinations for the brand and emerging markets will be discussed in the course
Advanced Supply Chain Management
This course covers certain advanced topics related to Supply Chain Management. It aims to familiarize students with the concepts related to retail industry initiatives for SCM, e.g., Quick Response, Efficient Consumer Response, Vendor Managed Inventory, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment. It also covers in detail Supply Chain Risk Management & BCM, Finally it deals with the sustainability issues in Supply Chain Management.
Six Sigma and Operational Excellence
The course is an introductory course in Six Sigma and Operational Excellence. It helps students learn practical tools, methods, and concepts to improve operations within and across the supply chains.