Logistics & Supply Chain Management

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SCM is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. SCM involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. In commerce, SCM the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. In the era of Globalisation and the world becoming a global village and with increased outsourcing, SCM is a vital management function for competitive advantage. Therefore, global organization require SCM specialists. You may prefer SCM over aviation.

CMS Business School is one of the top B schools in Bangalore offering Logistics and Supply Chain Management as one of its specialisation. Students will learn to apply core methodologies (probability, statistics, optimization) used in supply chain modeling and analysis, models to make trade-offs between forecasting, inventory, and transportation, design supply chain networks, technology use within supply
chains; ERP software systems, impact of capacity utilization on throughput time under demand variability, managing uncertainty & risks in the supply chain, Industry best practices from leading practitioners and understand how supply chains act as systems and interact, and manage end to end supply chain management. This integrated course provides a knowledge of all functional areas of an organisation. Students can choose this course to prepare themselves basically as an entrepreneur or to pursue professional career in the corporates as logistics analysts, sourcing specialists, global supply analysts, purchasing managers etc. Students can look forward to opportunities in small to large organizations across all industry sectors broadly in areas like Operations Management, Procurement / Purchase and Inventory Management, IT & ERP, Logistics and Purchasing, Manufacturing Ops, Sales and Marketing, Strategic Sourcing, SRM, CRM and even in HRM.

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