Project Management Syllabus

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Unit 1: 

Introduction, Structures and Frameworks of Project Management  -  Introduction 

of  the  project,  Historical  Perspective,  Definition,  Current  Issues,  Relationship  between
general  Management  and  Project  Management,  Project  Management,  Knowledge
Management  Base,  Project  Model,  4  phase  of  project  management,  7-S  of  Project
Management, The project environment, Complexities of project,

Unit  2:  
Strategy,  Project  Management  and  Project  Definition  -  Why  Strategy,
Organizational Strategy and Projects, Project Management as a strategic capability, Resource
Coordination,  Project  and  organizational  goals,  project  performance  measurement,
Developing  the  concept,  Scope  Management,  Project  Process,  Work  Breakdown  Structure,
Process Mapping, Establishing Check Points, Stakeholder Management, Project Management
Software

Unit 3: 
Time  Planning and Critical Chain Project Management  -  The Process, Gantt
Charts,  Estimating,  Activity  on  Arrow  and  Critical  Path  Analysis,  Activity  on  Node
Diagrams, Activity on Arrow vs. Activity on Node, Scheduling, Computer Assisted Project
Planning, Fast Track Projects, Project Evaluation and Termination

Unit 4:  
Cost and Quality Planning  -  Cost Planning, Cost Estimating, Cost Build up, Cost
Budget, Quality Planning Process, Quality Conformance and quality performance planning

Unit 5: 
Plan Analysis and Risk Management -  Analyzing Time Plan, Analyzing Cost Plan,
Analyzing Quality Plan, Risk Management, and Risk Quantification Technique

Unit  6:  
Project  Organization:  Structure  and  Teams  -  Role  of  team,  Pure  Project
Organization,  Matrix  Management,  Structure  Selection,  Team  Work,  Life  Cycle  of  Team,
Managing personalities in a team, Effective Team Work


Suggested Readings:
1.  Project Management, Maylor 3rd Edition,
2.  Project  Management:  Achieving  Competitive  Advantage  &  MS  Project,  Pinto
(Publisher)
3.  Project Management, Meredith, Mantek,7th Edition, Wiley India
4.  Project Management and Control, Narendra Singh, Himalaya Publishing House
5.  Project  Management;  Strategic  Decision  and  Implementation,  David  Cleland,
McGraw-Hill

Production and Materials Management Syllabus

PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Unit  I:
Introduction  to  Materials  Management  -  Operating  environment,  Supply  chain
concept, what is material management? Supply chain metrics

Unit  2:
Production  Planning  System  and  Master  Scheduling  –  Manufacturing  Planning
and  Control  System,  Sales  and  Operations  Planning,  MRP,  ERP,  Making  the  Production
Plan, Developing a MPS, Production Planning, Master Scheduling and Sales

Unit  3:
Capacity  Management  and  Production  Activity  Control  -  Definition,  Capacity
Planning,  Capacity  Requirements  Planning,  Capacity  Available,  Capacity  Required,
Scheduling  Orders,  Making  the  plan,  Load  Leveling,  Scheduling  Bottlenecks,  Theory  of
constraints

Unit  4:
Order  Quantity  and  Independent  demand  Ordering  System  –  EOQ  and  its
variations,  Quantity  Discount,  Fixed  Period  and  Fixed  Quantity  Ordering  Systems,  Order
Point  System,  Safety  Stocks,  Determination  of  Service  Levels,  Periodic  Review  System,
Dependent Demand Ordering System, Kanban system.

Unit 5:
Purchasing  -  Introduction, Establishing Specifications and Functional Specification
Description,  Selecting  Suppliers,  Price  Determination,  Impact  of  Material  Requirement
planning  on  purchasing,  Expansion  of  purchasing  into  supply  chain  management  and  its
organizational implications

Unit  6:
JIT  Manufacturing  and  Lean  Production  -  JIT  Philosophy,  JIT  Environment,
Manufacturing  Planning  and  control  in  JIT  Environment,  Lean  Production,  Difference
between Kanban, JIT and Lean, 5S.


Suggested Reading:
1.  Introduction to Materials Management-J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen Chapman, Pearson
Education 6 Edition
2.  Procurement-Principles and Management, Baily, 10th Edition, Pearson
3.  Purchasing and Materials Management, Gopalakrishnan, McGraw-Hill
4.  Purchasing  and  Materials  Management,Anand  Kumar  Mishra,D  K  Publishers  and
Distributers
5.  Purchasing and Materials Management,K.C. Jain,S. Chand
6.  Productions and Operations Management,Kanishka Bedi, Oxford Higher Education

Supply Chain Management Syllabus

 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Unit I:
Understanding the Supply Chain, Supply Chain Performance and Drivers: What
is Supply Chain, Objectives of a Supply  Chain, Importance of Supply Chain Decision, and
Decision  Phases  in  a  Supply  Chain,  Competitive  and  Supply  Chain  Strategies,  Achieving
Strategic  Fit,  Drivers  of  Supply  Chain  Performance,  Framework  for  Structuring  Drivers,
competitive advantages through supply chain management?

Unit  II:
Designing  the  Supply  Chain  Network   Designing  Distribution  Networks  and
Applications  to  e-Business:  Role  of  distribution  in  a  supply  chain,  Factors  influencing
distribution  network  design,  design  options  for  a  distribution  network,  e-Business  and  the
distribution network,  Network Design in the Supply Chain: the role of network design in
the  supply  chain,  factors  influencing  network  design  decisions,  framework  for  network
design decisions, models for facility location and capacity allocation,  Network Design in an
Uncertain Environment: Impact of uncertainty on network design.

Unit  III:  
Planning  Demand  and  Supply  in  a  Supply  Chain   Demand  Forecasting  in a
Supply  Chain:  The  role  of  forecasting  in  a  supply  chain,  Characteristics  of  forecast,
Components  of  forecast  and  forecasting  methods,  Basic  approach  to  demand  forecasting,
managing,  Impact  of  Bullwhip  effect  Predictable  Variability:  Responding  to  predictable
variability  in  a  supply  chain,  Managing  supply  and  demand,  Managing  predictability  and
implementing solutions to predictable variability in practice, Integrated Supply Chain

Unit IV: 
Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain  Managing Economies
of Scale in a Supply Chain: Role of Cycle Inventory, Economies of Scale to exploit fixed
cost and quantity discount, Short term discounting, Managing Multi-echelon Cycle Inventory,
Managing  Uncertainty  in  a  Supply  Chain:  Role  of  Safety  Inventory  in  a  supply  chain,
Determining Appropriate Level of Safety Inventory, Managing Safety Inventory in a multiechelon supply chain.

Unit V:
Designing and Planning Transportation Networks  Transportation in a Supply
Chain:  Role,  Modes  of  transportation,  transportation  Infrastructure,  Design  options  for  a
transportation  network,  trade-offs  in  transportation  design,  Risk  management  in
transportation.

Unit VI: 
Managing Information Flow in Supply Chains The Role of IT in a Supply Chain,
The Supply Chain IT framework, Customer Relationship Management, Supplier Relationship
Management,  Internal  Supply  Chain  Management,  Supply  Chain  Technologies:  Bar  Code,
RFID, EDI, e-business suites etc.

Suggested Readings

1.Supply Chain Management, Chopra, Meindl and Kalra, Pearson Education, 3
rd edition and after
2.Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, David, Kaminsky, Edith, TMH Edition, 2
nd
Edition and after
3. Supply Chain Management Text & Cases, Vinod V Sople, Pearson Education
4. Supply Chain Management,Janat Shah,Pearson Education
5. Supply Chain Management ,Ballau and Srivastava,Pearson Education
6. Operations ManagementKrajewski,Malhotra,Ritzman,Srivastava, Oxford Higher Education
7. Supply Chain Management,Sharma, Oxford Higher Education 

Total Quality Management Syllabus

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Unit I: 

Understanding Quality and Quality Philosophies - Definition of Quality,

Dimensions of Quality, Quality Planning, Quality costs, Quality Philosophy of Deming,

Joseph Juran, Philip Crosby, Genich Taguchi.

Unit II: 

TQM Principles - What is TQM?, What Does TQM Cover?, Guiding Principles of

TQM, Managerial Perspective to TQM

Unit III: 

Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Other Quality Improvement Techniques

– Process Control Charts, Control Charts for variables and attributes, Pareto Diagrams,

Scatter Diagrams, Run Charts, Cause and Effect Diagrams, Concept of six sigma.

Unit IV: 

TQM Tools - Benchmarking – Reasons to Benchmark, Benchmarking Process,

Quality Function Deployment (QFD), QFD Process, Benefits, Taguchi‘s Quality Loss

Function, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) – Concept, Improvement Needs, FMEA –

Stages of FMEA.

Unit V: 

Quality Improvement Systems - Kaizen, Lean, Poka-Yoke, 5S, 3M, Quality

Circles, Value Analysis and Value Engineering.

Unit VI: 

Business Process Re engineering - What is BPR? Need for BPR, BPR in USA,

Europe, India.

Suggested Readings

1. Total Quality Management, Dale H. Besterfiled, et al., Pearson Education Asia, 1999. (Indian

reprint 2002)

2. The Management and Control of Quality, James R.Evans & William M.Lidsay, (5th Edition),

South-Western (Thomson Learning), 2002 (ISBN 0-324-06680-5).

3. Total Quality Management, Feigenbaum, McGraw-Hill, 1991

4. Total Quality Management, Poornima M. Charantimath, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education

5. TQM an Integrated Approach, Shailendra Nigam, Excel Books