DNYANSAGAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH

ASSIGNMENT/403SCM/Strategic Supply Chain Management

Submission : 5th Nov 2016
Q.1- In a current scenario of fierce competition, it has become very important to attain sustainable
competitive advantage through Supply Chain, otherwise the companies may face dire consequence of
getting thrashed out of the market. Comment with appropriate examples.
Q.2- How can the Supply Chain Performance be optimized in an effort to achieve the strategic fit, which
demands the consistency between the customer priorities that the competitive strategy hopes to satisfy
and the supply chain capabilities that the supply chain strategy aims to build?
Q.3 -Discuss the importance of expanding the scope of strategic fit across the supply chain.
Q.4- How is the strategic alliance or partnership built? Elaborate with at least three recent examples of
the successful corporate strategic alliances.
Q.5- India has opened doors to foreign multinationals through FDI, like for example Retail Industry. At
the same time when there is a huge potential, there lies numerous supply chain challenges in India.
What would be the future strategies of the companies to tackle these challenges?
ASSIGNMENT/404SCM/Knowledge Management in Supply Chains
Q.1- Describe the steps involved in designing an effective Supplier Relationship Management.
Q.2- What are the risks and challenges involved in implementing Supply Chain Information System?
Q.3- What is Disintermediation? Explain the technological impact of Technological Disintermediation in
Retail supply chain.
Q.4- What are the factors that contributed to the transition of SCM to e-SCM? Explain the term e-SCM,
its advantages to the current league of businesses and the opportunities provided by the new
technologies in the context of e-SCM.
Q.5- Explain the application of RFID in Supply Chain Management. How EPOS is used to improve Supply
Chain Performance?
ASSIGNMENT/406SCM/Enterprise Resource Planning
Q.1- How can ERP technology play an important role in value creation in an organization?
Q.2- How ERP and the related technologies can be integrated with the Supply Chain Management to
make it more efficient?
Q.3- Describe the Life Cycle of ERP implementation. What are the challenges in ERP implementation?
Q.4- Explain the relevance and importance of ERP in e-business. Review in brief the future of ERP.
Q.5- How ERP system processes can bring better management control in effective logistics and supply
chain management?

ASSIGNMENT/407SCM/Purchasing and Supplier Relationship Management-II

Q.1- How purchasing for Institutions and Government organizations differ from Industrial purchasing?
Explain the purchasing procedure and purchase cycle with respect to any Government Institution.
Q.2- In the process of purchasing of Services, it is crucial to plan the Statement of Work (SOW) and write
the SOW. With an example of any organizational service purchase, explain planning & writing of the
SOW.
Q.3- What is meant by leasing? What are the merits and demerits of lease purchasing? Explain the
factors favoring Leasing.
Q.4- What are the benefits of Worldwide Sourcing? Explain the barriers to worldwide sourcing and the
measures to overcome these barriers.
Q.5- Why is it important to measure the performance of purchasing decisions? What problems occur
with purchasing measurement and evaluation?
ASSIGNMENT/409SCM/Project Management-II
Q.1- What is System Development Life Cycle? Describe the phases of SDLC.
Q.2- Explain in detail, various tools of project planning.
Q.3- Describe different tools & techniques for scheduling development.
Q.4- In Project Management, after identification of the risk, how is the risk response planning done?
What are the methods of risk management?
Q.5- What are different computer based tools in project management? Explain the features of PMIS.
ASSIGNMENT/411SCM/Supply Chain Management-Financial Perspectives
Q.1- Explain in brief the role of Pricing & Revenue Management in Supply Chain.
Q.2- Describe
a) Allocation based costing system &
b) Management based costing system
Q.3- How the key cost drivers in Supply chain are selected? How strategic options are developed for
selected cost drivers?
Q.4- How are the risks and benefits evaluated in supply chain cost management from stakeholders
perspective?
Q.5- Explain with appropriate examples, how contingency plans in cost management in supply chain are
developed?