
Discover how designers can apply lean supply chain management principles to map the value stream from manufacturer to customer, optimize efficiency with design thinking, and practice a Toyota case study.
Designers must understand supply chain management to optimize product design and costs. Learn how flow of goods and services, packaging constraints, and logistics shape distribution and value.
Trace the history of supply chain management from forecasting and materials planning to lean, integrated logistics and digitalization, showing how designers apply lifecycle, packaging, and distribution considerations.
Explore the lean distribution model and four-column mapping of procurement, manufacturing, quality, and warehousing to minimize inventory and optimize logistics from production to customers.
Explore how supply chain management ties data, monitoring, and strategy to cost, safety, quality, and distribution across OEMs, tier suppliers, and distributors, using a car example.
Minimize supply chain expenses and optimize inventory to deliver value and customization, balance demand across seasons, and profit for all partners through standardized processes and technology-driven, rapid fulfillment.
Learn how automated software and data analytics transform the supply chain, enabling precise inventory control, warehouse operations, and backlog tracking with ERP and SAP.
Apply lean to optimize the supply chain by eliminating waste, increasing value, and using data-driven inventory, demand planning, and order fulfillment to boost resilience with Kafka and SAP.
Design flexible, non-linear supply chains to anticipate disruptions, recover quickly, diversify vendors, build inventory and capacity buffers, and use platform harmonization and ecosystem partnerships to sustain operations.
Optimize supply chain management to better understand customers and deliver cost-effective, efficient products. Boost return on investment with lean inventory, early risk warnings, data visibility, and strong supplier partnerships.
About the Master Calss:
This course teaches students about supply chain management and its importance as a designer. Also this course teaches about the basic components of supply chain, why I picked oral representation and how students are able to get a very good perspective being a very non-technical person. Also talks a little about the history of the supply chain management and how it is being optimised over time and how to even optimise it further using the latest technology but we have like the lean method Kafka to improve its process in efficiencies et cetera has been covered in the course.
Design philosophy:
As I used to say in my design courses, that design cannot be learned in the rot learning or Text book way of learning that you do through a chapter wise and remember some formulas that will yield you some solutions. Design is unique and when different people approach the same problems we will get different solutions based on the inputs that designer works on.
So design can be approached in the way of learning through the case studies and by doing action on your own to learn yourself.
Learning by doing and learning by action.
Benefits of the Master Class:
Students will learn about the components of Supply chain management in detail like who is the customer, who is the manufacturer, who is the distributor, how it is coming from warehouse into the dealer shop, how people are getting the products in the local shops.
Each and every stakeholder and community has been discussed with pictorial representation and 3-D model you so students will learn about it very clearly.
Also this course talks about a system of supply chain management and how we got optimised over time.
The teachings regarding optimisation of supply chain and how sufficiency can be improved has been discussed.
Using the principles and Kafka principles we are able to improve the efficiency of supply chain management.
Also learning about the benefits of supply chain management knowledge and how we are able to create a big value in the form of process of product development and product life-cycle even though you are a designer or an engineer this is a vital skill which is needed across the world and it has a huge demand globally.
An easy class project is given for understanding Toyota car manufacturing supply chain logistics, how it is reached to the dealer shop and how we are getting it in hand students are asked to make an illustration of their understanding of supply chainmanagement to this project.