Shardul Phadnis, Teaching

Teaching

Below is the list of courses I currently teach to the students in the master's program at MISI (and as a visiting professor at IIM-Ahmedabad).

Logistics Systems: This course provides the analytical foundations of the operational and tactical planning decisions encountered in supply chains. The topics include demand forecasting (for mature and new products), inventory policies, transportation, and procurement contracts. It also provies a brief overview of the organizational processes (e.g., Sales & Operations Planning) and IT tools used for making these decisions (Equivalent of MIT ESD.260/15.770 and edX SC1x ).
Supply Chain Strategy and Design: This course explores the strategic issues related to supply chain management.
Supply Chain Thinking: Value Creation and Adaptation: This course explores the value-creation potential of taking the supply chain perspective using the Case Method. I teach this course at IIM Ahmedabad as a visiting professor in the Production & Quantitative Methods group.

Below is the list of courses I currently teach at MISI or have taught in the recent past at MIT CTL in Executive Education programs.

Internet of Things and Supply Chains: This courses explores the implications of the "internet-of-things" (IoT) for supply chains, and how the IoT tools can be used to improve supply chain operations. The course uses the IoT framework developed in my research.
Retail Supply Chains and E-commerce: This course explores the transforming landscape of retail supply chains through the merging of brick-and-mortar and online channels."
Scenario Planning: This course describes the challenges involved in long-range and strategic planning, and demonstrates how scenario planning (a long-range planning process) could be used to overcome some of the challenges. The students learn about scenario planning through hands-on application of scenarios to a real-world case. The typical session is three-hours long.
Supply Chain Resilience: course module describes how supply chains are disrupted due to environmental, political, and economic events, and teaches how different disruption mitigation strategies can be evaluated. The students learn experientially about disruption mitigation using an Excel-based simulation (Supply Chain Resilience Evaluation And Mitigation, SCREAM) developed at MIT CTL.
The Beer Game: An MIT classic! The game demonstrates the emergence of a peculiar supply chain dynamic because of siloed decision-making in the supply chain.

I have authored and taught the following cases at MIT. Contact me if you would like to use them in your course.

"Medford Supply Chain Strategy": The case presents the challenge faced by a distributor of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. of developing supply chain strategy in a business enviornment marked by pervasive uncertainty. The case presents the business environment in year 2009-10, when the U.S. healthcare sector was covered under the shroud of extreme uncertainty about regulations (PPACA, pedigree laws, drug diversion laws, etc.), nature of medicines (e.g., biologics), healthcare technology, etc. while the U.S. economy was in the Great Recession. The case is intended to help students understand how macro issues, and uncertainty about them, influences a firm's strategic decisions.
"Production planning for chemical manufacturing": The case presents a joint production and inventory planning problem that is commonly encountered in production facilities that use capital-intensive assets requiring long set-up changeover times. It is intended to help students understand various aspects of this tactical problem and develop a comprehensive planning framework.