Discussion on supply chain at NITIE

B-SCHOOL BEAT

The students of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, will hold Samiksha, a series of panel discussions on contemporary business themes, on February 27 between 2 p m and 5 p m.

The panel discussions are focused on the integration of theory and practice through better communication between industry and management students.

The event involves a session of brief presentations by eminent industry representatives, followed by a panel discussion and interaction with students.

The theme this time is supply chain management (SCM): survival in competitive markets. Some of the issues to be covered in the discussion include: how SCM can lead to profit and competitive advantage; how modelling of supply chains differ depending on business needs; new areas like efficient consumer response concepts, quick response, vendor managed inventories and continuous replenishment process; human resource development for SCM; managing global supply links for competitive edge; web-based supplier-relationship management; and the best practices in procurement.

Those participating in the discussions include top supply chain executives from Colgate Palmolive, Pantaloon, Mahindra & Mahindra, Monsanto and Novartis.

Placement at MDI

It took just six hours for the 123-strong batch at Gurgaon's Management Development Institute to receive job offers from 46 firms.

The major recruiter this year was the IT and IT-enabled services industry, with about 33 per cent students preferring this sector for placements.

The finance and marketing sectors accounted for 25 per cent each of the job offers. And others like consulting and media accounted for the rest.

Major recruiters included Bharat Shell, Nestle, Glaxo SmithKline, Times Group, Dabur, Reckitt Benckiser, Agrotech Foods, Philips, IBM, Oracle, TCS, Wipro Technologies, Infosys, Ranbaxy and Hewitt Associates.

Financial institutions like UTI AMC, SBI Caps, IDBI Caps, GE Caps and JP Morgan Chase & Co also recruited.

All students with work experience and interested in lateral placement were placed through the lateral process, having enough leverage to choose the profile that best fit their career plan. These candidates will, therefore, be joining organisations at above entry levels.