NPTEL : NOC:Decision Support System for Managers (Management)

Co-ordinators : Prof Sujoy Bhattacharya, Prof. Anupam Ghosh, Prof. Kunal Kanti Ghosh


Lecture 1 - Introduction to decision support systems

Lecture 2 - Components of a decision support systems

Lecture 3 - Components of a decision support systems (Continued...)

Lecture 4 - Models in decision support systems

Lecture 5 - Models in decision support systems (Continued...)

Lecture 6 - Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured problems; Models

Lecture 7 - Purpose of models; classification of models

Lecture 8 - Solution Techniques - Optimization : Linear Programming

Lecture 9 - Solution Techniques - Optimization : Linear Programming (Continued...)

Lecture 10 - Solution Techniques - Optimization : Integer Programming

Lecture 11 - Decision Support Systems for Forecasting

Lecture 12 - Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Continued...)

Lecture 13 - Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Continued...)

Lecture 15 - Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Continued...)

Lecture 16 - Decision Making for Warehouse Location : Factor Rating and Break - Even Method

Lecture 17 - Decision Making for Warehouse Location (Continued..): Centre of gravity; Ardalan heuristic and transportation cost models

Lecture 18 - Estimation of space requirement in a warehouse and concept of economic order quantity (EOQ)

Lecture 19 - Economic order quantity (EOQ) (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - ABC-FSN-VED Analysis; space calculation in a warehouse - for Staging area

Lecture 21 - Space calculation in a warehouse : Space calculation for racks

Lecture 22 - Order Picking; Material handling equipment's

Lecture 23 - Material Safety and Safety Equipment's

Lecture 24 - Automated storage and replenishment systems (AS/RS)

Lecture 25 - Managerial Decision making in the context of warehousing and materials management

Lecture 26 - Issues in HR; Employee Selection

Lecture 27 - Employee Selection, Promotion and Deployment Method - Lp Method

Lecture 28 - Employee Selection, Promotion and Deployment Method - Rating and ranking Method ; Clustering

Lecture 29 - Employee Selection, Promotion and Deployment Method - BCG

Lecture 30 - Strategizing for Business, the SWOT and Porter's Framwork Revisited

Lecture 31 - Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, GE, Rule of Three

Lecture 32 - Self Actualisation Needs, Rural Marketing Challenges

Lecture 33 - Rural Marketing; Balanced ScoreCard

Lecture 34 - Evaluating Investment Proposls : NPV, IRR

Lecture 35 - Costing and Pricing for Public Transport

Lecture 36 - Costing and Pricing for Hospitals

Lecture 37 - Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Media Selection Model

Lecture 38 - Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Media Selection Model (Continued...)

Lecture 39 - Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Product Pricing Model

Lecture 40 - Pricing : Model Selection Using Cross - Validation

Lecture 41 - Taxation and the Distribution Network

Lecture 42 - Transhipment; Flexibility and Six Sigma

Lecture 43 - Flexibility and Total Cost of the Network

Lecture 44 - Risk Analysis for the Distribution Network

Lecture 45 - Echelons in the Network

Lecture 46 - Concept of Variability and Six Sigma

Lecture 47 - Concept of Variability and Six Sigma (Continued...)

Lecture 48 - Roadmap to Six Sigma; Ishikawa Diagram and SIPOC

Lecture 49 - Service Systems : Characteristics; Failure and Recovery

Lecture 50 - Decision Support Systems for Inventory

Lecture 51 - Decision Support Systems for Inventory (Continued...)

Lecture 52 - Decision Support Systems for Inventory (Continued...)

Lecture 53 - Decision Support Systems for Inventory (Continued...)

Lecture 54 - Decision Support Systems for Inventory (Continued...)

Lecture 55 - Decision Support Systems for Operations Management

Lecture 56 - Decision Support Systems for Operations Management (Continued...)

Lecture 57 - Decision Support Systems for Operations Management (Continued...)

Lecture 58 - Decision Support Systems for Operations Management (Continued...)

Lecture 59 - Decision Support Systems for Operations Management (Continued...)

Lecture 60 - DSS for Multi - Item Production - Distribution Planning