Understanding and defining the supply chain analytics – Importance of analytics in supply chain - Relating Operations Management with Supply chain concepts with SC Analytics.

Key issues in supply chain analytics - Concept of Descriptive Analytics in a Supply Chain - Decision Domains in supply chain analytics, Application of supply chain analytics in India.

Introduction to Modelling, Approaches for Optimization and Simulation, Modelling software, Understanding of Data and its role in Analytics - Analytics of a Transportation problem in a Supply Chain - Managerial implication of results of analytics.

Network Planning in a Supply Chain - Importance of Network Planning - Design of Logistics Network - Concept of 3PL/4PL in a Supply Chain.

Role of ICT in supply chain - Designing supply chain information system - Characteristics of information system - Effective forecasting - Information for coordination of system - Information and SC integration