International Guest Lecture

The department of Management organised an International Guest Lecture on 7th January, 2020 exclusively for the final year BBA students. The guest for the day was Dr. Dinesh S Dave’, Professor & Head, Department of Computer Information systems & Supply chain management, John Walker College of Management, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA.  The theme of the guest lecture was Supply chain Management, which is of global importance today. The guest began the session with an elementary introduction to supply chain management and the processes involved. Dr. Dave’ mentioned a variety of examples such as Amazon, Flipkart, Target and so on. He elucidated the working of supply chain for different industries. He explained about the chain of supply and mentioned the three important flows in the chain – Product flow, Information flow, and Finance flow. He also added about the criticality of demand planning in the supply chain management. The mixed model of logistic drivers and cross functional drivers in supply chain management was also introduced to the students. Dr. Dave suggested on the improvements that can be made in the Indian infrastructure to enhance the effectiveness of Indian Supply chain. He also threw light on the current budget of India where the government has planned to spend Rs 102 lakh crore in Infrastructure development which is a positive sign for the economy. Finally, he concluded by encouraging the students to learn more about this emerging discipline, supply chain management. On the whole, the session proved to be really informative for the final year BBA students.

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