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IISCM is a leader in Supply Chain Consulting, Certifications and Executive Development Programs. IISCM is a unit of Fhyzics Business Consultants Private Limited - an Authorized Channel Partner (ACP) of APICS, USA [Part of the Association for Supply Chain Management, ASCM Network]. Fhyzics offers end-to-end support for Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution (CLTD) certifications of APICS, USA. For more details, please visit www.IISCM.org or speak to our consultants at +91-900-305-9000.
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IISCM is a leader in Supply Chain Consulting, Certifications and Executive Development Programs. IISCM is a unit of Fhyzics Business Consultants Private Limited - an Authorized Channel Partner (ACP) of APICS, USA [Part of the Association for Supply Chain Management, ASCM Network]. Fhyzics offers end-to-end support for Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution (CLTD) certifications of APICS, USA. For more details, please visit www.IISCM.org or speak to our consultants at +91-900-305-9000.
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http://www.iiscm.org/
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Episodes
Fhyzics Business Classification System
7/24/2019
This podcast is brought to you by IISCM.
An economy and its activities can be better understood and well planned by using a business classification system. Fhyzics business classification system has four levels.
Level-1: An economy is divided into sectors. They are primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary. Indicated as P, S, T and Q based on the first character of the sectors.
Level-2: Each sectors are divided into domains such as agriculture, manufacturing, banking etc. Indicated as...
Duration:00:02:50
SCM Sparks #108: Process Mapping
7/21/2019
SCM Sparks brought to you by IISCM
One can improve a supply chain only by knowing the start point and the destination. I mean the current state and the future state of the supply chain. Process mapping is a great technique to capture the current state and define the future state of a supply chain. Microsoft Visio is a most prominent tool which can elegantly present the processes of a supply chain to its minutest details. I would say all supply chain professionals should have a decent skill...
Duration:00:00:51
SCM Sparks #107: Supply Chain Analyst
7/21/2019
SCM Sparks brought to you by IISCM!
For any large organizations, supply chain analyst is an important position to continuously improve the supply chain. Supply chain analysts recognize the symptoms, identify the root causes and recommend the right solutions. They help a supply chain to transform from the current state to a better future state. In other words, they ensure that the supply chain is in alignment with the organization’s and customer’s expectations. In summary, supply chain...
Duration:00:01:40
SCM Sparks #106: Supplier Certification
7/20/2019
SCM Sparks brought to you by IISCM
For a sound product or service delivery, an organization need to define, measure, analyze, improve and control its inputs, processes and outputs. Supplier certification is a tool to achieve this goal on the input side of an organization. Supplier certification enables an organization to align its suppliers with its quality, cost, flexibility and delivery requirements. A supplier certification may have 20 parameters. Some of these parameters fall under...
Duration:00:01:21
SCM Sparks #105: SWOT Analysis
7/11/2019
SWOT analysis stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Both strengths and weaknesses are about the capabilities of my supply chain. Strength is something that is helping my supply chain to succeed and I should preserve and improve it further. Weaknesses are those capabilities that are acting as bottlenecks. For an e-commerce company, sourcing may be their strength and last mile connectivity could be its weakness. On the other hand, opportunities are things that need to be...
Duration:00:01:29
SCM Sparks #104: CPIM Part-1
7/9/2019
You may be an experienced SCM professional or someone who would like to make a career in supply chain. If you would like to update yourself with the current practices in supply chain then I would recommend one book that is CPIM Part-1 Learning System from APICS, USA. The 2019 version contains thirteen sections such as SCM Introduction, manufacturing design, continuous improvement, lean, demand management, master planning, MRP, capacity management, purchasing, aggregate inventory management,...
Duration:00:01:09
SCM Sparks #103: ISO:31000:2018
7/9/2019
Risk creates an uncertainty in achieving the objectives of supply chain. Risk may or may not happen and is a combination of events and consequences. The falling of a 2 kg bolt from a truss is an event and it hits an equipment on the ground is a consequence. So, the same event may give rise to different consequences and severity of the risk may change from no-effect or near miss to fatal accidents. ISO:31000:2018 provides terminologies, principles and framework for risk management in...
Duration:00:01:23
SCM Sparks #102: Warehouse Transformation
7/9/2019
Traditionally the warehouses were serving as a place to receive the goods, store them for long periods and issue them against the orders from the downstream. Do you think the warehouses continue to serve only these purposes? Don’t you think they have evolved and serving demands of today’s new age businesses and customers? So what are all the value-added functions of modern warehouses? Do you think the delivery hubs of e-commerce companies have storage function?
For more details related to...
Duration:00:00:50
SCM Sparks #101: Inventory Defined
7/9/2019
The three perspectives of defining inventory. They are types of inventory, functions of inventory and nature of inventory. Raw material, work in process, finished goods inventory, distribution inventory and maintenance, repair and operating supplies (MRO) are the types of inventory. Safety stock, cycle stock, decoupling inventory, transportation inventory, hedge inventory, anticipation inventory, buffer inventory are the functions of inventory. The nature of inventory could be independent or...
Duration:00:01:06
Freight Forwarders
7/9/2019
Hi this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This podcast is on the role of Freight Forwarders.
Let us try to understand the role of freight forwarders through an analogy. Assume that I would like to travel from Chennai to Gaborone the capital city of Botswana in the southern part of Africa for a business trip.
To read the full transcript of this podcast, please click here.
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Duration:00:02:22
Eligibility to Become a Customs House Agent
7/8/2019
This is your host Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. According to Customs Broker Licensing Regulations, 2018 the applicants shall meet the following eligibility condition to submit the application
1) he is a citizen of India
2) he is a person of sound mind
3) he is not adjudicated as insolvent
4) he holds an Aadhaar number
5) he holds a valid PAN card
To read the full transcript of this podcast, please click here.
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Duration:00:02:52
Customs House Agent
7/8/2019
Hi, this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This podcast is on Customs House Agents.
Import and export is a complex process which involves several stakeholders. In addition to performing a movement of goods from or to the terminal, one has to focus on insurance, packaging and hiring carriers, you also need to file several documents with the customs department.
To read the full transcript of this podcast, please click here.
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Duration:00:02:21
Executive Development Programs in SCM
7/7/2019
Hi this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This podcast is on the list of Executive Development Programs offered by IISCM for corporates.
The duration of IISCM’s Executive Development Programs range from one to three days and are delivered at organisations across India, Middle-East and Africa. These programs are case study based and have a judicial mix of theory and practice. On completion of the program, the participants would be able to transform the respective business processes in their...
Duration:00:02:00
Supply Chain Program for Graduates
7/2/2019
Hi this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This podcast is for young graduates to help them form a career in supply chain.
As you may be aware that supply chains across India need skilled and qualified manpower to manage its operations. This demand is coming from eCommerce companies, multinational corporations and business houses. I have personally witnessed a steep growth in demand for supply chain professionals both at entry and mid-management levels over the last 5 years. Several...
Duration:00:02:21
Why Supply Chain Certifications?
7/2/2019
Hi this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This podcast is on why a supply chain professional need to pursue supply chain certification?
At the beginning of 1990’s when I started working for an engineering firm, supply chain tasks were more or less a common sense. Anyone with a degree in commerce, science and engineering can handle the tasks with little bit of on-the-job training. Those days MBAs were rarest of rare and we never had any programs to educate us in supply chain concepts. I...
Duration:00:05:04
Bonded Warehouse
7/1/2019
Hi this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM. This topic is on Bonded Warehouses.
Bonded warehouses are established under the Customs Act, 1962. You can refer sections 57 to 73 under Chapter IX of Customs Act 1962 to learn the various provisions of bonded warehouse in India. Similar to this act almost all countries have legal provisions governed by their respective acts to establish the bonded warehouse. So what is a bonded warehouse? The warehouse promoter or the importer executes a bond with...
Duration:00:02:16
An 8-Step Approach For Career Progress in SCM
6/29/2019
Hi, this is Venkadesh Narayanan from IISCM.org. This podcast is on An 8-Step Approach For Career Progress in SCM. The eight steps are Establish Goal, Define Geographies, Identify Domain, Search Companies, Analyse Job Descriptions, Bridge Skill Gap, Connect with Contacts and Followup. Let us go through the 8-steps.
To read the full transcript of this podcast, please click here.
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Duration:00:04:52
Echelons and Nodes
6/29/2019
Echelons and nodes are very helpful concepts to visualize an end-to-end supply chain. Let us take an automotive supply chain. It contains four levels of suppliers Tier-4, Tier-3, Tier-2 and Tier-1. The Tier-4 supplier supplies to Tier-3 and Tier-3 supplies to Tier-2 and so on until Tier-1. The Tier-1 supplier supplies to the OEM that is the car manufacturing plant. Once the cars are manufactured they are sent to Regional Distributors from where it is sent to the Dealers who manages the...
Duration:00:03:05
Backflush Accounting
6/24/2019
Backflush accounting is a manufacturing accounting system where the costing of a product and the inventory consumed are calculated at the point of completion of the manufacturing process.
Let us take a scenario at an automobile kitting plant. This kitting plant prepares the kit for the mirrors. At the assembly line each car requires one kit that is composed of the necessary components for the left, right and rear view mirrors. So each kit should contain 3 mirrors, 6 bolts, 6 washers, 6...
Duration:00:04:02
Multiple Supply Chains - A Case Study
3/10/2019
For any manufacturing organisation, we can divide the supply chain into two parts. One is the upstream supply chain and the other is downstream supply chain. In this podcast, I am going to discuss the need for multiple supply chains for the downstream. The downstream supply chain originates at the factory and ends with the delivery of the product to the end consumer. We are concerned only with the forward product flow, so I am not considering the reverse product flow or the reverse logistics...
Duration:00:04:30