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ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
IEEE BANGALORE SECTION
August 10, 2001, Friday Choksi Auditorium, IISc Bangalore

N. Viswanadham (Fellow IEEE),
Deputy Executive Director,
The Logistics Institute Asia-Pacific Singapore.

Y. Narahari,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Automation,
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

N.R.S. Raghavan,
Assistant Professor,
Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

DATE : 10th August 2001, Friday
TIME : 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
VENUE : Choksi Auditorium, IISc, Bangalore

Contact for Registration:
Mr. Anurag Tyagi
CTO -TELECOM
721, 7th Main Mahalaxmi Layout,
Bangalore 560 086
Fax :91 80 349 1490
email : anurag@subexgroup.com

Who Should Attend :

This workshop introduces and addresses critical issues in supply chain management that concern today's senior managers in manufacturing and service enterprises. The workshop is specially designed for decision makers and implementers in the areas of E-business, process reengineering, procurement, materials management, plant operations, fulfillment, logistics, and transportation.

Workshop Outline :

The Internet is now an extremely important ingredient of supply chain planning and strategic thinking and developments. Internet is also recognized as a major driver of competitive advantage for organizations that harness its use effectively, essentially as a medium for supply chain integration through collaborative sharing of information. In these environments, both the businesses as well as individual customers expect perfect delivery of the right product at the right time and place.

This intensive one-day workshop provides a foundation for understanding and improving supply chain networks. The workshop gives equal emphasis to traditional core issues and modern best practices in supply chain management. At the end of the workshop, the participants will have a sound appreciation of core issues such as process management, inventory management, and supply chain integration. They would be able to appreciate how emerging best practices such as strategic sourcing, e-procurement, performance measurement and use of B2B market places will lead to high performance supply chains. These concepts will be illustrated with case studies.

Registration : 8:45 - 9:15
Forenoon Session : 9:30 - 12:45
1. Supply Chain Management: Overview and Introduction : 9:30-10:30
N. Viswanadham

REGISTRATION	08:45 - 09:15
FORENOON SESSION	09:30 - 12:45
1. Supply Chain Management: Overview and Introduction -N. Viswanadham State of the art introduction to key aspects of supply chain networks, logistics and communication technologies. Mapping a representative supply chain.	09:30 - 10:30
TEA BREAK	10:30 - 10:45
2. Performance Measures for Supply Chain Networks -Y. Narahari This talk identifies critical indices for describing the performance of supply chains. Lead time, customer service levels, synchronization, and supply chain process capabilities will be the main topics of discussion in the talk. At the end of this talk, the participant will have clarity on criteria to be used for evaluating supply chain performance.	10:45 - 11:45
3. Supply Chain Dynamics: Bullwhip Effect and Beyond -N.R.S. Raghavan Supply and demand management is the key for extracting maximal levels of performance from supply chains. Bullwhip effect is the principal impediment for this. This talk introduces these difficulties and illustrates this through a celebrated distribution game.	11:45 - 12:45
AFTERNOON SESSION	14:00 - 18:00
4. Supply Chain Best Practices - The Dell Case Study -Prof. N. Viswanadham Comparison of make-to-order and make-to-stock supply chains. Effect of Internet on supply chain fulfillment. Dell is widely recognized for championing several best practices in supply chain management. The talk will bring out supply chain best practices using the Dell Case study.	14:00 - 15:00
TEA BREAK	15:00 - 15:30
5. B2B Market Places and E-Procurement -Prof. Y. Narahari This will be a state-of-the-art review of electronic market places and their role in supply chain management. Special emphasis will be one-procurement.	15:30 - 16:30
6. ERP and SCM Solutions -N.R.S. Raghavan ERP and SCM solutions interact in very important ways and the talk will reveal critical insights of this interplay. The talk will also provide a quick overview of available best practice software solutions for supply chain decision making.	16:30 - 17:30
Concluding Session -N Viswanadham	17:30 - 17:45

N. Viswanadham
Prof. N. Viswanadham is Deputy Executive Director of The Logistics Institute Asia-Pacific and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has held several prestigious positions before joining NUS. He was a GE Research Fellow during 1989-90, named the Tata Chemicals Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and was the recipient of the 1996 IISc Alumni award for excellence in research. Prof. Viswanadham is the author of several textbooks, journal articles and conference papers and is the lead author of two textbooks, Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems, and Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises - An Approach to Leveraging the Value Delivery Processes for Competitive Advantage. His current research interests include logistics and supply chain management.

Y. Narahari
Prof. Y. Narahari is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He completed his M.E. in Computer Science in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1988, both from the above department. His current research interests are in electronic commerce, supply chain management, and object oriented modeling. He has co-authored a textbook on Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems (Prentice Hall, 1992) and has just completed a web-based text on Data Structures and Algorithms. He has spent sabbaticals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1992 and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 1997. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics. He is a recipient of several awards: Bangalore University Gold Medal for B.Sc. in 1979; IEEE Student Paper Award in 1984; IISc Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 1988; Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship in 1992; and the Sir C.V. Raman Young Scientist Award for Computer Science Research in 1998.

Dr. N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies, IISc. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc, in 1999. He is a university rank holder in his B.Tech degree, in Mechanical Engineering from S.V. University College of Engineering, Tirupati. He completed M.Tech in Management Studies from IISc in 1995, securing first rank and the Institute gold medal. Part of his Ph.D. work, presented as a paper titled `Performance models of Competitive Enterprises' was awarded the Prof. B. G. Raghavendra Memorial Trophy at the First National Doctoral Consortium in Management held in 1997. His research interests include performance modeling and analysis of business processes, scheduling in the context of supply chains, business process reengineering, intelligent agent-based modeling, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He currently teaches Data Management, ERP and Operations Management at IISc.