Modus Operandi

The Operations Society, IIM Bangalore in association with the IIM Bangalore SCM Centre and Society of Operations Management launches its one day operations event, 'Modus Operandi' in its first avatar on this Saturday, the 9th of January 2010.

This event aims to promote operations as a career choice amongst students – the event includes an operations simulation game, a workshop on managing ERM software (SAP) and a panel discussion on managing supply chains in services.

Schedule of the event

Time

Event

Details

9:00 am to 10:00am

Registration

Student registrations for the event

10:00 am to 11:00 am

Operations Game: Optimus

Preliminary round for students

11:00 am to 12:45 pm

Panel Discussion: Topic – Operations & Supply Chain Management in Service Industries

Speakers from various SCM/ services backgrounds from DELL, Accenture, Wipro, Genpact & SAP

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

Lunch Break


2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Experience ERP

A workshop on ERM software: SAP

3:30pm to 4:30pm

Operations Game: Optimus

Finals

Tuesday, January 5

Workshop - Experience ERP

The Workshop "Experience ERP" aims to walk interested individuals though the evolution of Enterprise Resource Planning processes and platforms right from what ERP systems and functionalities before, and what they mean today.
  • Overview of SAP and related ERP software: An overview of where SAP and in general as well as ERP packs and softwares are used by companies. Also giving managerial students a sense of areas where installation of ERPs does as well as does not make sense.
  • Core of SAP: As a manager in operations or as a part of a SAP team, an managerial overview of those key areas which a manager should be aware of which dealing with a SAP team.
  • Applications: A bird's eye view of common applications of SAP and their usability.
Profile of Mr Sanjai.K, Vice President and Head of Product Management for ERP, SAP.

Sanjai.K is the Vice President and Head of Product Management for ERP, SRM and Sustain ability at SAP Labs India. He is a member of the Global Management team that is responsible for defining the Product Strategy , Portfolio and Road map for the above Solutions. Prior to this role, Sanjai spent 9 years with SAP Consulting and has managed several large and complex SAP projects in the region.

Sanjai has 16 plus years of experience in IT industry of which the last twelve and half years has been with SAP. He is also a guest faculty at IIM (K), IIFT (Delhi), and LIBA (Chennai).

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