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Programme Starts
5th January, 2025

Programme Fees
₹3,59,300

Duration
12 Months

Programme Overview

Gain a competitive edge with the Executive Programme in Operations and Supply Chain Management at IIM Indore, where you unlock insights, foster innovation, and tackle real-world challenges in today's global market.
This programme focuses on mastering the essentials of Operations Management (OM) to drive success across industries.
The course modules focus on key aspects of Supply Chain Management like capacity planning, quality assurance, acquiring tools and skills to analyze and optimize operations management, efficiently tackle operational challenges from capacity estimation to bottleneck resolution.
In summary, this is a thoughtfully designed programme to help you deep insights, drive innovation, and excel in operational excellence.

Programme Highlights

IIM Indore Executive Education Alumni Status.

3-day campus immersion in IIM Indore.

Focus on real business use cases.

Learn from IIM faculty who are the their domain experts.

Eligibility

Work Experience:
Minimum two years.

Educational Background:
Diploma (10+2+3)/Graduate/Post Graduate from Universities recognised by Association of Indian Universities.

Academic Qualifications:
At least 50% marks in either diploma/ graduation/ post graduation.

Programme Content

Introduction

  • Introduction to Operations & Supply Chain Management
  • Key Concepts: Cycle Time, Throughput, & Work-in-process

Quantitative Techniques for OM/ SCM

  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Queuing theory and simulation

Operations Strategy

  • Role of OS in Business Strategy Hierarchy
  • Strategic Contribution of Operations Management to an Organisation’s Overall Goals

Process Structure

  • Process Structure in Services & Manufacturing
  • Process Analysis
  • Evaluating Process Performance
  • Process Improvement & Reengineering

Quality Management

  • Total Quality Management: Key Elements
  • Six Sigma
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Process Capability
  • Theory of Constraints

Planning & Scheduling

  • Scheduling
  • Resource Planning
  • Material Requirement Planning

Inventory Management

  • Types of Inventories
  • Economic Order Quantity
  • Inventory Control Systems

Lean Management

  • Designing Lean System
  • Toyota Production System
  • Process Considerations in Lean Systems

Designing Supply Chain

  • Supply Chains for Services & Manufacturing
  • Measures of Supply Chain Performance across Inventory & Financial Measures
  • Vertical Integration
  • Outsourcing

Forecasting Demand

  • Bullwhip Effect
  • Forecasting Models
  • Understanding Demand Variability
  • Monitoring & Controlling Forecasts

Supplier Relationship Management

  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Supplier Relationships & Partnerships
  • Supply Chain Contracts
  • Procurement Analytics

Logistics Management

  • Factors Affecting Location Decisions
  • Network Design
  • Warehousing & Logistics Management

Analytics in Operations & Supply Chain

  • Optimisation for Prescriptive Analytics
  • Applied Modelling in Operations & Supply Chains

Emerging Trends in Operations & Supply Chain

  • Triple Bottom Line Approach to Sustainability
  • Socially Responsible Operations & Supply Chain
  • Industry 4.0

*Courses are subject to change.

PROGRAMME CERTIFICATE & ALUMNI STATUS

Participants will receive course completion certificate issued by IIM Indore subject to successful completion of the prescribed course of study and fulfilment of all other academic requirements.

Past Participant Profile

Top Industries

  • IT
  • Logistics/Procurement
  • Automotive
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Mining/Metals
  • Chemicals
  • Food/Beverages
  • Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Apparel/Fashion
  • Banking/Mortgage

Top Job Profiles

  • Supply Chain Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Logistics Manager
  • Procurement
  • Manager
  • Inventory Manager
  • Distribution Manager
  • Warehouse Manager
  • Demand Planner
  • Production Officer
  • Supply Chain Analyst

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Programme Director

PROF. SAURABH CHANDRA

Prof. Saurabh Chandra has done his FPM from IIM Lucknow. His doctoral thesis was in the field of maritime logistics. Before joining the doctoral programme at IIM Lucknow, he worked with Mitsui OSK Lines as an Assistant Marine Engineer and as Chief Engineer with Ocean Sparkle Ltd., and COMACOE Ltd.

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He is the co-founding member of the Maritime Logistics Research Group at IIM Indore and does extensive research and consulting on various areas of logistics management. His core strengths are strategic and tactical analysis of planning and scheduling problems in the logistics industry using mathematical programming and simulation.

Transportation policy analysis is another related area in which he is actively pursuing his research interests. Prof. Saurabh’s current research interests include maritime logistics and mathematical optimisation, analysing supply chain policies and the performance of Indian retail firms through financial data, and automotive logistics in India. His teaching interests include Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Service Operations Management, and Business Statistics.

PROF. AMIT KUMAR VATSA

Prof. Amit is working in the Operations Management and Quantitative Methods area at IIM Indore. He specialises in large-scale optimisation and supply chain management. He has worked in the industry for seven years and has rich experience in logistics, information technology, and the oil and gas sectors.

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Prof. Amit has an FPM from IIM Ahmedabad with a specialisation in production and quantitative methods. In his doctoral work, he determined the best sequence of opening facilities under server uncertainty and was awarded the IFCI best thesis award at IIM Ahmedabad. He also has a PGDM from IIM Lucknow and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Post-FPM, he worked as a functional architect at JDA Software (a leading supply chain solutions company) for three years. He designed solutions for complex business problems in transportation and travel & tourism. Two of the solutions developed by him received the “Pillar” award at JDA for their innovative capabilities. He has earlier worked for Engineers India Ltd., as a Process Design Engineer. He worked on greenfields as well as revamping jobs for some of the large refineries and petrochemical plants in India, Kuwait, and Algeria.

Class Schedule

Sundays
First session: 05:30 PM to 06:45 PM(IST)
Second session: 07:00 PM to 08:15 PM(IST)
Third session: 08:30 PM to 09:45 PM on (Thursday)