Admission Procedure & Exams

Supply Chain Management at UG Level: Eligibility, Admission Process, Course Fee and Entrance Exams

One needs to have passed the grade 12 examinations or any other equivalent exam approved from a recognised board for enrolling into supply chain management courses in India.

Admission:

Most of the colleges offering supply chain management courses across India enrol students through direct admission. Also, some colleges release a cut-off list for the admission purpose.

Some of the reputable Indian colleges offering supply chain management courses include:

·         Jyotirmoy School Of Management & Sciences, Kolkata

·         Apex India Vidyapeeth, Delhi

·         NSHM College of Management & Technology, Kolkata

·         Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata

·         Institute for Supply Management, Gurugram

·         Jain University, Bengaluru

 

Delivery Type, Duration and Fee Structure:

Course	Delivery type	Duration	Fee Structure (Per year)
Bachelor in Supply Chain Management	Full-time	3 years	INR 17,000 - 70,000
Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain Management	Full-time	3 years	INR 18,000 – 1,00,000

 

Supply Chain Management at PG Level: Eligibility, Admission Process, Course Fee and Entrance Exams

An individual who wants to pursue supply chain management courses at the postgraduate level must have a minimum aggregate score of 50 percent in her/his pre-university exams and a Bachelor’s degree from a recognised college or university. Further, many colleges consider candidates who have at least three years of prior work experience in any industry. 

Admission Process:

Most of the colleges offering supply chain management courses at the postgraduate level conduct analytical written entrance tests in order to shortlist candidates. In addition, this is followed by an interview round.

Following are the supply chain management courses at the postgraduate level:

·         MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is offered by Institute of Logistics and Aviation Management, National Institute of Business Management, and University of Petroleum and Energy Studies.

·          Postgraduate Diploma in Materials and Logistics Management

Delivery Type, Duration and Fee Structure:

Course	Delivery Type	Duration	Fee Structure
MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management	Full-time	2 years	INR 4,00,000 – 5, 10, 000
Postgraduate Diploma	Full-time	2 years	INR 62,000

 

Specializations

Specialization at UG Level

Following are the areas of specialisation offered under supply chain management courses:

·         Purchase/Sourcing: It offers complete know-how of the process of goods and services ordered, which involves sourcing activities, negotiation and strategic selection of goods and services that are usually of importance to an organisation.

·         Inventory Control: This area of specialisation under supply chain management courses prepares students to keep a track of inventory with the help of automated systems and programmed software.

·         Warehousing and Distribution: Students learn how to deal with the movement and storage of raw materials and finished goods, together with distribution.

·         Freight and Transportation: This area of specialisation under supply chain management courses prepares students for trucking companies, which are required to be accurate in terms of processing and transportation of packages. Such companies are dependent on the supply chain management professionals which guide them on their daily operations.

·         Process Management: Students learn about systematic approaches in order to make an organization's workflow more effective, efficient and capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. Supply chain management is a necessary element in process management units.

·         Vendor Development: It involves popular techniques of strategic sourcing, which improves the value consumers receive from suppliers. This activity is performed when a buying firm undertakes to improve a supplier's performance and capabilities to meet the buying firms' supply needs.

·         Solution Designing: Students learn to define and describe the design of a system delivered in the context of a specific solution, and as such, it may encompass the description of an entire system or only its specific parts.

·         Network Planning: This area of specialisation under supply chain management courses prepares students for an iterative process, encompassing topological design, network-synthesis, and network-realization. Network planning professionals need to ensure that a new telecommunications network or service meets the needs of the subscriber and operator.

·         Project Planning and Implementation: It teaches how to convert visions and plans into reality. It involves coming to the logical conclusion, after evaluating, deciding, visioning, planning, applying for funds and finding the financial resources for a project.

·         System and Technology Implementation: This area of specialisation under supply chain management courses involves the realisation of technical specification or algorithm as a program, software component, or other computer systems through computer programming and deployment.

Specialization at PG Level

Most of the colleges offering supply chain management courses allow their students to gain specialisation in the areas, including:

·         Management Theory: This area of supply chain management course focuses on the development of ideas and its implementation to improve productivity and management in an organisation. It is focussed upon managers and supervisors who motivate their employees to adopt practices which do away with avoidable and time-consuming efforts in their daily work to increase efficiency and productivity.

·         Organizational Behaviour: It is the study of the way people interact within groups or function as individuals in a working environment. Studying this supply chain management course enables an organization to create a more efficient working environment. Further, the core idea of studying organizational behaviour is to apply a more scientific and effective approach to the management of the workforce.

·         Information Systems for Managers: This field of supply chain management course includes the collection, organisation, storage and communication of information. Also, it involves the study of the process of complementary networks that people and organisations use to collect, process and distribute data. Further, it involves a group of components that interact to produce information. Information systems have a definitive boundary, users, processors, storage, inputs, outputs and communication networks.

·         Business Economics: It is a field in applied economics, which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyse business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organisational structures and the relationships of firms with labour and capital. It helps a business achieve the best possible result with the proper use of people and resources in relation to finances.

·         Business communication: This area of supply chain management course is the practice of exchanging ideas and information within an organisation or between two businesses to enhance their working style to ensure better and informed results. It plays a key role in any organisation to ensure employee learning and satisfaction and adoption of better styles of working, based on other related businesses. It increases awareness and ensures informed decisions being made.

·         Marketing Management: This process involves the application, tracking and review of a company’s marketing resources and activities. Marketing management depends on the size of the business and the industry in which they operate. An effective marketing management will use a company's resources to increase its customer base, improve customer views of the company's products and services to increase the company's perceived value. Marketing management professionals ensure that products are marketed the right way.

·         Strategic Management: Strategic management students study the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by a company’s top management. It deals with the optimum use of resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in which the organisation competes. Strategic management provides overall direction to the enterprise and involves specifying the organization's objectives, developing policies and plans designed to achieve these objectives, and then allocating resources to implement the plans. Strategic management is not static in nature; the models often include a feedback function that monitors execution and detailing the next round of planning.

·     Business Statistics: Business statistics teaches the scientific approach to applied statistics of good decision-making in the face of uncertainty. This is used in many areas such as financial analysis, econometrics, auditing, production and operations including services improvement, and marketing research. It is a branch of applied statistics working mostly on data collected as a by-product of doing business or by government agencies. This supply chain management course provides knowledge and skills to interpret and use statistical techniques in a variety of business applications.

·      Business Law: It refers to conducting any kind of business according to and within the laws of the land. This area of supply chain management course focuses on best practices, labour welfare, business policies environmental safety and other aspects of the day-to-day functioning of a business. Entrepreneurs or business heads are supposed to function in an ethical manner mandated by the laws.