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1. Course Objective: Procurement or Sourcing is an important thread from which the companies generates wealth in recent days. Global Sourcing is primarily a procurement strategy that aims to take advantage of global efficiencies for the delivery of goods and services. For MNCs, it has become a strategic aspect in today’s competitive setting. The primary objective of this course is to understand the perspective of Global Sourcing and Strategic Sourcing and to ensure the usage of Strategic Sourcing frameworks in the context of Global Sourcing. Material management (MM) is also an approach for planning, organizing, and controlling all those activities principally concerned with the flow of materials into an organisation. Sourcing and MM both are equally responsible for plans and designs for the procurement and delivery, distribution, storage, collection, and removal of occupant-generated streams of materials and services. Our second important objective is to understand the fundamentals of MM and to realize how different important components of Operations Management are responsible for forming the function Materials Management. Last but not the least, this course connects MM with advanced and contemporary topic i.e. SAP and Lean Management.

2. Learning Outcome: On successfully completion of this course, students will be able to:

Course Objectives	Program Objectives
To provide an understanding of Global Sourcing and MM as a major functional area of business	1.3
Solving problems and practical cases on Global Sourcing and MM functions to enhance their analytical ability to face these issues in the workplace	2.1
Development of a group project report and presentation by students which requires the learnings from different classes	3.1

3. Text Book:
Introduction to Materials Management, 8th Edition by Steve Chapman, Tony K. Arnold, Ann K. Gatewood and Lloyd Clive
References:

· Handbook of Purchasing & Materials Management by Kalman I Perlman
· Lean Materials Planning & Execution by Donald H Sheldon
· Purchasing & Materials Management by P Gopalkrishnan
· Sourcing & Supply Chain Management by Handfield, Monczka, Giuniper & Patterson
· Materials Management – procedures, texts & cases by A K Datta
· The Bermuda Triangle of Business Procurement – how to exploit dormant potential by Gerd Kerkhoff
· Maintenance & Spares Management by P Gopalkrishnan & A K Banerji
· Purchasing & Supply Management – text & cases by Donald W Dobler & D N Burt
4. Tentative Session Plan:

Session No.	Topics	Pre-reading*
1	Purchasing Fundamentals; Purchasing & strategic sourcing, Electronic sourcing , Supplier selection & materials management	Ch - 7
2 - 4	The understanding of Global Sourcing and Strategic Sourcing and Some Frameworks to analyse the Global and Strategic Sourcing	Materials will be provided
5 - 7	Supplier Selection using Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Techniques e.g. AHP, TOPSIS	NA
8	Sustainability in sourcing, Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP)	NA
9 - 10	Introduction to materials management, Implications of MM in maintenance & spares management in Project environment, Importance of returns management	Ch 1
11 - 12	Capacity management including rough-cut capacity planning, Resource planning and scheduling	Ch 5
13 - 15	Order quantities & lot-sizing rules, Inventory management under intentional shortage; Advanced independent demand ordering system, Inventory & transportation mode interaction, Multiple criteria ABC analysis	Ch 9 and Ch 11
16	Interactions of Inventory and Warehouse management	Ch 12
17 - 18	Lean approaches to materials management, – Kaizen, Kanban & bin systems; Implications of Learning curve in MM, Spare parts & maintenance management, Project environment material management, SAP & Material management	Ch 16 (Selective)
19 - 20	Group Project Presentations by students	NA

1. Attendance and Class Praticipation (Individual) : 10 %
2. Quiz (Individual, Online) : 15 %
3. Mid-term (Individual, Online) : 20 %
4. Class Presentation in Groups (Max 3 students /team) : 15 %
5. End-term exam (hard copy) (All chapters included) : 40%

TOTAL : 100 %