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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - SEMESTER ? IV EXAMINATION ? WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3549288 Date: 29-11-2019
Subject Name: Supply Chain Management
Time: 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q1. Define the following terms 14
(a) Supply chain management
(b) Third party logistics
(c) Network design
(d) Green supply chain
(e) E-procurement
(f) Sustainable supply chain
(g) IT in SCM
Q2.(a) What is supply chain management? What are the forces that have emerged these days
to make supply chain management a critical success factors in most industries? 07
(b) Titan offers two brands of watches ? Sonata and Fastrack. Sonata is targeted for a
mass market while Fastrack is targeted at a premium segment. Should Titan manage both
brands with the same supply chains? Should they share warehouses, transportation, supply
chain software and other assets or should Titan handle them separately in all areas of
business? 07
OR
(b) How important is coordination between cola companies and their bottling plants? Is it
necessary to own bottling plants if the cola companies want to achieve a better degree of co-
ordination at the local level of operations? 07
Q3.(a) What are the main sources of supply chain disruptions? How do supply chain
disruptions impact business performance? 07
(b) Why are issues related to supply chain resumption becoming more important in
today?s business context? 07
OR
(a) Explain the factors that impact make vs. buy decision of a firm? 07
(b) Why it is important to understand the functional role of IT for any supply chain
management system implementation project? 07
Q4. (a) What is supply chain integration? What are the two type of integration? Explain the
bull-whip effect with the help of suitable example? 07
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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - SEMESTER ? IV EXAMINATION ? WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3549288 Date: 29-11-2019
Subject Name: Supply Chain Management
Time: 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q1. Define the following terms 14
(a) Supply chain management
(b) Third party logistics
(c) Network design
(d) Green supply chain
(e) E-procurement
(f) Sustainable supply chain
(g) IT in SCM
Q2.(a) What is supply chain management? What are the forces that have emerged these days
to make supply chain management a critical success factors in most industries? 07
(b) Titan offers two brands of watches ? Sonata and Fastrack. Sonata is targeted for a
mass market while Fastrack is targeted at a premium segment. Should Titan manage both
brands with the same supply chains? Should they share warehouses, transportation, supply
chain software and other assets or should Titan handle them separately in all areas of
business? 07
OR
(b) How important is coordination between cola companies and their bottling plants? Is it
necessary to own bottling plants if the cola companies want to achieve a better degree of co-
ordination at the local level of operations? 07
Q3.(a) What are the main sources of supply chain disruptions? How do supply chain
disruptions impact business performance? 07
(b) Why are issues related to supply chain resumption becoming more important in
today?s business context? 07
OR
(a) Explain the factors that impact make vs. buy decision of a firm? 07
(b) Why it is important to understand the functional role of IT for any supply chain
management system implementation project? 07
Q4. (a) What is supply chain integration? What are the two type of integration? Explain the
bull-whip effect with the help of suitable example? 07
(b)In India, the ECR industry initiative was started with a lot of fanfare but it has not
made any meaningful progress. What could be the reasons for it? What can be done to
improve the chances of any such industry initiative? 07
OR
(a) Explain why dynamic pricing provides higher profits compared to fixed pricing? 07
(b) What role does forecasting play in the following categories of supply chains: 07
1. Make to stock
2. Configure to order
3. Made to order
Q5. Case Study
Mann Diesel Sales and Services
Mann Diesel Sales and Services(MDSS) manufactures a variety of engines from 60 to 2500
HP capacity range. Mann Inc. serves its customers worldwide through more than 500
company owned and independent distributor locations in 100 countries and territories and a
network of 4,500 dealers and has facilities in 45 countries.
MDSS provides after-market support to customers for all Mann products that includes: in
warranty and post warranty, engine repairs and re-con exchange of engines, re-con
components and repairs of engine components, supply and maintenance of spares under
operations and maintenance (O & M) contract and lastly the supply of allied products such as
monitoring and power generation systems. MDSS has worked continuously to fulfill the
needs of customers.
MDSS serves its customers through a network of 5 zonal offices, 8 spare parts depots and 75
dealers having 120 service locations. The services extended are warranty claims, engine
repairs, re-con exchange of engine, spare parts supply, annual maintenance contract(AMC),
monitoring power generation system and supply of allied products.
MDSS has three input channels having different types of supply behavior, lead times and
capabilities. It received around 80 percent of the supply in the form of manufactured (35%)
and locally purchased spare parts (44%) with the rest of the 21 percent being imported by
local and overseas suppliers. Further MDSS has 4 different output channels with a value of
24 percent, 52 percent, 13 percent and 11 percent supplying to 8 depots, 75 dealers, direct
customers and MDSS service/region, respectively. Dealership stocking exhibited the worst
supply performance. Also, supplier-delivery performance was low, which led to frequent
stock-outs at the main warehouse. The responsibility of the customer satisfaction was on
dealers and depots. Prior to implementing the SC initiative, MDSS made an inventory of 109
days. The supply was unpredictable and inconsistent. The customer faced longer breakdowns
of equipments, longer waiting period for the arrival of spare parts, higher investment in
inventories and poor service level. These factors contributed to the loss of customer base to
competitors.
To resolve the problem, a team of representatives of MDSS and channel partners were
formed. The team included executives from inbound sourcing/materials, manufacturing,
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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.___________
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - SEMESTER ? IV EXAMINATION ? WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3549288 Date: 29-11-2019
Subject Name: Supply Chain Management
Time: 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q1. Define the following terms 14
(a) Supply chain management
(b) Third party logistics
(c) Network design
(d) Green supply chain
(e) E-procurement
(f) Sustainable supply chain
(g) IT in SCM
Q2.(a) What is supply chain management? What are the forces that have emerged these days
to make supply chain management a critical success factors in most industries? 07
(b) Titan offers two brands of watches ? Sonata and Fastrack. Sonata is targeted for a
mass market while Fastrack is targeted at a premium segment. Should Titan manage both
brands with the same supply chains? Should they share warehouses, transportation, supply
chain software and other assets or should Titan handle them separately in all areas of
business? 07
OR
(b) How important is coordination between cola companies and their bottling plants? Is it
necessary to own bottling plants if the cola companies want to achieve a better degree of co-
ordination at the local level of operations? 07
Q3.(a) What are the main sources of supply chain disruptions? How do supply chain
disruptions impact business performance? 07
(b) Why are issues related to supply chain resumption becoming more important in
today?s business context? 07
OR
(a) Explain the factors that impact make vs. buy decision of a firm? 07
(b) Why it is important to understand the functional role of IT for any supply chain
management system implementation project? 07
Q4. (a) What is supply chain integration? What are the two type of integration? Explain the
bull-whip effect with the help of suitable example? 07
(b)In India, the ECR industry initiative was started with a lot of fanfare but it has not
made any meaningful progress. What could be the reasons for it? What can be done to
improve the chances of any such industry initiative? 07
OR
(a) Explain why dynamic pricing provides higher profits compared to fixed pricing? 07
(b) What role does forecasting play in the following categories of supply chains: 07
1. Make to stock
2. Configure to order
3. Made to order
Q5. Case Study
Mann Diesel Sales and Services
Mann Diesel Sales and Services(MDSS) manufactures a variety of engines from 60 to 2500
HP capacity range. Mann Inc. serves its customers worldwide through more than 500
company owned and independent distributor locations in 100 countries and territories and a
network of 4,500 dealers and has facilities in 45 countries.
MDSS provides after-market support to customers for all Mann products that includes: in
warranty and post warranty, engine repairs and re-con exchange of engines, re-con
components and repairs of engine components, supply and maintenance of spares under
operations and maintenance (O & M) contract and lastly the supply of allied products such as
monitoring and power generation systems. MDSS has worked continuously to fulfill the
needs of customers.
MDSS serves its customers through a network of 5 zonal offices, 8 spare parts depots and 75
dealers having 120 service locations. The services extended are warranty claims, engine
repairs, re-con exchange of engine, spare parts supply, annual maintenance contract(AMC),
monitoring power generation system and supply of allied products.
MDSS has three input channels having different types of supply behavior, lead times and
capabilities. It received around 80 percent of the supply in the form of manufactured (35%)
and locally purchased spare parts (44%) with the rest of the 21 percent being imported by
local and overseas suppliers. Further MDSS has 4 different output channels with a value of
24 percent, 52 percent, 13 percent and 11 percent supplying to 8 depots, 75 dealers, direct
customers and MDSS service/region, respectively. Dealership stocking exhibited the worst
supply performance. Also, supplier-delivery performance was low, which led to frequent
stock-outs at the main warehouse. The responsibility of the customer satisfaction was on
dealers and depots. Prior to implementing the SC initiative, MDSS made an inventory of 109
days. The supply was unpredictable and inconsistent. The customer faced longer breakdowns
of equipments, longer waiting period for the arrival of spare parts, higher investment in
inventories and poor service level. These factors contributed to the loss of customer base to
competitors.
To resolve the problem, a team of representatives of MDSS and channel partners were
formed. The team included executives from inbound sourcing/materials, manufacturing,
planning, warehouse and field office from company?s side, and dealers and customer
representatives as external participants.
MDSS then segmented spare part items(9,500 SKUs) based on volume, value of sales and
service level. They categorized the parts into A,B and C types. They have also re-defined the
service level as ex-stocks or against order. Customer break points, that is, all regular
maintenance and running repair parts, should be available ex-stock from dealership point and
they can be ordered 7-15 days in advance. In addition, the supply chain is expected to service
emergencies within 2 days. New process design suggested by SCM team, that is, weekly
sourcing and shipment to dealers for A and C category of all parts, as per the segmentation
was implemented. A framework was made to set target inventory to 3 weeks of average
consumption at each dealership point, where dealers were expected to report about
inventories on the specified day of the week, creating POS(point of sales) information
available at MDSS. They used weekly bucketed information of sales for generating a forecast
from desktop tools with the lead time for A, B and C category parts. The safety stock levels
for all parts were calculated every week, considering the variability during the last 30 weeks.
For releasing firm orders , a lead time was scheduled in the target week. Also, the next 4
week?s forecast was worked out providing visibility for 4 weeks. They started using a new
measure called CLIP(committed line item performance). CLIP is a binary indicator of
whether or not a line has been fulfilled to the extent of 90 percent plus target quantity. KPI
measuring various CLIP parameters related to suppliers, order processing, dispatch and
forecasting were fixed up.
In the warehousing and logistics, they started scheduling allocations on a daily basis, and
agreeing on fixed delivery printing time played a major role in putting in place the picking
and packing in right boxes and movements to shipping area. They introduced automated
storage and retrieval system (ASRS) at the warehouse to improve warehouse efficiency. In
outbound logistics MDSS undertook a Six Sigma project to capture the increased opportunity
in logistics and distribution network .In addition to the above; MDSS installed ERP as a part
of its capability enhancement efforts. This system was multi-organizational and MDSS was
one of the organizations included in the programme.
Q1. Map the spare parts supply chain of MDSS? 07
Q2. Discuss the problem faced by MDSS in its spare parts supply chain? 07
OR
Q1. How were the problems sorted out through the supply chain initiatives? 07
Q2. The combined efforts made my MDSS were effective? Analyze? 07
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