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This document is an exam for a Supply Chain Management course, containing 5 questions about various SCM topics. It provides instructions for the exam, noting it is worth 70 total marks and lasts 3 hours. The questions cover supply chain challenges in India, demand forecasting methods, defining SCM and its evolution, transportation modes, uncertainties in global SCM, the role of IT, reasons for Amazon building new warehouses, the bullwhip effect and its causes, supply chain mapping dimensions, agile vs traditional SCM, moving from make-to-stock to customize-to-order, supply chain integration and barriers, defining cross docking, ECR initiatives in India, and sources of supply chain disruptions.

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Gujarat Technological University

This document is an exam for a Supply Chain Management course, containing 5 questions about various SCM topics. It provides instructions for the exam, noting it is worth 70 total marks and lasts 3 hours. The questions cover supply chain challenges in India, demand forecasting methods, defining SCM and its evolution, transportation modes, uncertainties in global SCM, the role of IT, reasons for Amazon building new warehouses, the bullwhip effect and its causes, supply chain mapping dimensions, agile vs traditional SCM, moving from make-to-stock to customize-to-order, supply chain integration and barriers, defining cross docking, ECR initiatives in India, and sources of supply chain disruptions.

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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.

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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY


MBA - SEMESTER–IV • EXAMINATION–WINTER • 2014

Subject Code: 2840005 Date: 01-12-2014


Subject Name: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Time: 10.30am - 13.30pm Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q. 1 (a) What are the supply chain challenges for the Indian FMCG sector? 7
(b) Explain “Impact of Service Level on Revenue Costs and Profits”. 7

Q. 2 (a) Explain Quantitative V/s Qualitative Methods of demand forecasting with suitable 7
examples.
(b) Define the term Supply Chain Management. Discuss the various phases of evolution of 7
supply chain management.
‘OR’
(b) How can a firm design its sourcing strategy based on a purchase portfolio matrix? 7

Q. 3 (a) Discuss relative merits and demerits of various transportation modes available. 7
(b) Define uncertainties that are particularly relevant when designing global supply chains? 7

‘OR’
(a) Information technology plays a vital role in SCM – Discuss. 7
(b) Why over a period of time an e-retailer - Amazon has built new warehouses located at 7
geographically different parts of the country?

Q. 4 (a) What is the bullwhip effect and what are the main causes of bullwhip effect? 7
(b) Define the term supply chain mapping. Also discuss the following three dimensions of 7
supply chain mapping with suitable chart
1- Value addition curve
2- Point of Differentiation
3- Customer entry point in the supply chain
‘OR’
(a) Define the term Agile supply chain. How Agile supply chain different from the 7
traditional supply chain?
(b) What are the ways in which firm can move from Make To Stock (MTS) to Customize to 7
Order (CTO)?

Q. 5 (a) What is supply chain integration? What are the barriers in implementing it? 7
(b) What do you mean by Cross docking? 7
‘OR’
(a) Write a note on ECR Initiatives in India 7
(b) Explain Sources of supply Chain Disruptions with Examples. 7
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