INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

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the final result.
3. Students are required to secure 50% marks in assignments to pass the examination.
4. Each subject will have two assignments and each assignment carries 10 marks only.
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in transit.
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firmly with string.
9. Assignments in respect of distance mode students must reach IIMM NHQ Education Wing latest by 30
October against July-December, 2013 session. No delay will be acceptable. GDMM contact mode
students are required to submit their assignments at their respective branches.

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IIMM Assignments _Paper -_Dec, 2013

PAPER- 1
MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES & HRP
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) Define the term management. Discuss organizational hierarchy and
managerial skills.
b) Explain the decision making process in detail.
Q.2 a) Explain line and staff organization
b) What are the requirements of various controlling techniques?

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. a) Discuss the Maslows theory of hierarchy of needs.
b) Explain the leadership theories in detail.

Q.2. a) Discuss the barriers and breakdown in communication.

b) Explain the various types of performance appraisal schemes.

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Paper 2
QUANTITATIVE METHODS
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) Explain break even analysis with a suitable example.
b) What is ABC Analysis? Explain steps in ABC Analysis.
Q.2.A Company has three production facilities F1, F2 and F3 with production
capacities of 7, 9 and 18 units (in 100s) per week of a product, respectively. These
units are to be shipped to four warehouses W1, W2, W3 and W4 with requirement
of 5, 6, 7 and 14 units (in 100s) per week, respectively.
The transportation costs (in rupees) per unit between factories to warehouses are
given in the table below:
W1

W2

W3

W4

Capacity

F1

19

30

50

10

F2

70

30

40

60

F3

40

70

20

18

Demand

14

34

Obtain an optimal solution using MODI method.

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.a) what is forecasting? Explain various methods of forecasting.
b) Explain Queuing system with a suitable example

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Q.2.A small project consists of seven activities, the details of which are given
below:
Activity
A
B
C
D
E
F
G

Duration (days)
Most likely Optimistic
3
1
6
2
3
3
10
4
7
3
5
2
4
4

Pessimistic
7
14
3
22
15
14
4

Immediate
Predecessor
-A
A
B,C
B
D,E
D

a) Draw the network diagram, number the nodes, find the critical path and
expected project completion time.
b) What project duration will have 95% confidence of completion?

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Paper- 3
Business Economics and Finance
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) What are the various types of demands? What are the shifts in demand
curve?
b) What are the roles of financial institutions?
Q.2.Explain the following with respect to measurement of national income
a) GDP, GNP and NNP
b) Economic indicators & indices
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. a) What is quality culture? What are the values of quality cultures?
b) What are the branches of accounting? What is the scope of management
accounting?
Q.2.a) What is foreign direct investment? What are the types of foreign direct
investment?
b) Explain the method of preparing trial balance sheet with an example. What
are the types of errors in this?

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PAPER 4
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-COMMERCE
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.Explain the following components of a digital computer.
a) Input and Output units
b) Central processing units
c) Memory unit
Q.2.a) What is windows? What is the importance of windows?
b) What is PowerPoint? Discuss the term Templates.
ASSIGNMENT No-2

Q.1.a) What are the various applications of Internet?

b) What is Electronic mail? What are the limitations of it?
Q.2.a) What are the various legal issues related to internet commerce?
b) Explain the Re-engineering process in detail

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PAPER 5
PURCHASING MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) Define the term purchasing. What are the various objectives of purchasing?
b) What are the duties and responsibilities of purchasing officer?
Q.2.What is outsourcing? What are the factors determining make or buy or
outsource decision?
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. What are the factors used to analyze supplier performance? What is total cost
of ownership?
Q.2. Write short note on any four of the following:
a) Vendor quality rating
b) Excise duty
c) Vendor/supplier analysis
d) Material handling
e) Phases of vendor negotiation
f) Purchase order

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PAPER 6
BUSINESS LAWS
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1. Explain the various laws and their relevance. What are the various types of
contracts?
Q.2. What are the essentials of contract of sale? Explain the various foreign trade
regulation rules

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. Explain the concept of custom act. What are the various types of custom
duties?
Q.2. Write short notes on any four
a) Quasi Contracts
b) International Arbitration
c) Sales Tax
d) Value Added Tax
e) Law of insurance
f) Industrial disputes act

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PAPER -7
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.What are the current challenges and opportunities in economic development?
Q.2.Write short note on any four of the following:
a) Theory of world trade
b) Policy of import linearization
c) Instruments of trade policy.
d) NAFTA Agreement
e) An evaluation of GAAT
f) WTO
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) Explain the various advantages and disadvantages of FDI.
b) What is custom? Explain the custom clearance procedure for imported and
exported goods.
Q.2.a) What is incoterm ? What are the various types of incoterms ?
b) What are the various factor affecting exchange rate?

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PAPER - 8
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.What are the various methods of demand forecasting? Explain Time series
method in detail
Q.2.What is Kanban system? Explain PCDA cycle in detail.

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.How does JIT system eliminates waste? What are the benefits of JIT
manufacturing?
Q.2.What is the difference between line layout and functional layout?

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PAPER - 9
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.What is the importance of strategic management? Discuss the modes of
strategic management
Q.2 Write short note on any four of the following:
a) Components of decision making
b) Elements of strategy
c) Environmental Appraisal
d) SWOT Analysis
e) Strategy formulation
f) Value chain analysis
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. Define market segmentation. What is the importance of market segmentation?
Q.2.a) Write short note on organizational culture.
b) What are the various criteria for evaluating strategies?

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PAPER - 10
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1What is inventory control? What are the various reasons for carrying
inventory?
Q.2 Explain the following:
a) ABC analysis with suitable example
b) XYZ analysis with suitable example

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1 Write short note on the following:
a) Inventory carrying cost
b) Economic order quantity

Q.2 Explain the various methods of inventory valuation? Which method is most
suitable for perishable commodities and why?

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PAPER - 11
LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.Explain the logistic performance cycles in detail. Discuss the various logistics
organizations

Q.2.Write short note on global logistics. What are the various barriers to global
logistics?
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1 What are the various types of inventories? What are the various components of
inventory carrying cost?

Q.2.What is logistical measurement? What are the characteristics of an ideal

measurement system?

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PAPER - 12
PACKAGING, DISTRIBUTION & RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.What are the principles of packaging? What are the factors affecting choice of
distribution channels?

Q.2.What are the conventional methods of determination of packaging costs?

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.Explain the various incoterms used in international trade.
Q.2. Write short notes on any four
a) Packaging industry in India
b) Containerization
c) Multimodal Transport
d) Need for physical distribution
e) Vendor managed inventory
f) Transport Laws

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PAPER - 13
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) What are the characteristics of scientific research method? Discuss the
limitations of marketing research.
b) Explain the various measures of central tendency
Q.2. Write short note on any four of the following:
a) Formulation of research hypothesis
b) Modes of data collection
c) Sampling Theory
d) Normal distribution
e) Theory of estimation
f) SPSS Software
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.a) What is ANOVA? Explain it with a suitable example.
b) Write short note on regression analysis.
Q.2.a) Calculate the mean for the following data
34, 28, 50, 25, 8
b) During a summer class there were 7 students. Their test scores are given
below. What is the median test score?
95, 76, 88, 94, 67, 38, 90
c) What is the mode for the set below?
12, 15, 13, 18, 15, 10, 13, 19, 13
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PAPER -15
STRATEGIC COST AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.What is Ratio Analysis? Describe the various types of ratios.
Q.2.A company is planning to purchase a machine to meet the increased demand
for its products in the market. The machine costs Rs 50,000 and has no salvage
value. The expected life of the machine is 5 years, and company employs straight
line method of depreciation for tax purpose. The estimated earnings after taxes are
Rs 5,000 each year for 5 years. The after-tax required rate of return of the company
is 12 percent.
Determine the IRR. Also find the payback period and obtain the IRR from it.
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.What is the concept of leasing? What are the types of lease agreements?
Q.2. Write short notes on any four
a) Wealth Maximization
b) The risk/return trade-off in financial analysis
c) Financial Leverages
d) Commercial Banks
e) RBIs norm for bank credit
f) Techniques for cash management

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PAPER-16
BUSINESS STATEGIES AND WORLD CLASS MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1. What are the business challenges of the information age? What are the various
problems in the manufacturing industry?
Q.2.Explain the details of the strategic planning methodology for world class
manufacturing.

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.Explain the Demings fourteen points for quality improvement
Q.2. Write short notes on any four
a) KANBAN
b) Quality Circle
c) Zero Defect
d) Enterprise Resource Planning
e) Cost of Quality

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PAPER -17
ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1. What is Supply Chain Management? Explain the need for Supply Chain
Management
Q.2. Write short notes on the following:
a) ABC Classification Analysis
b) Pareto Distribution
c) Bullwhip Effect
d) 3PL
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1. What is the role of IT in supply chain? Name the various information
technologies used in supply chain management
Q.2. What is DSS? What are the analytical tools & techniques for DSS ?

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Paper 18.a
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1. What is project management? Describe the various stages of project/product
life cycle
Q.2.What are the various types of project organizations? Explain
functional/hierarchical organization in detail.
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.An engineer has been awarded a contract to prepare plan for an urban renewal
project. The job consists of the following activities and their estimated times:

Immediate
Predecessors
--

--

A,B

C,D

B,D

E,F

Activity

Time (days)
2

a) Draw the network diagram of activities for the projects

b) Indicate the critical path, and calculate the total float and free float for
each activity.

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Q.2. Write short notes on the followings:

a) Line of Balance
b) CPM & PERT
c) Gantt Chart
d) Network crashing techniques

PAPER- 18.b
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.a) What are the characteristics and objectives of DSS?
b) What are the advantages and limitations of DSS?
Q.2.a) Explain the concept of data warehousing?
b) What are the challenges of data integration?
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.a) Discuss the components of decision support system?
b) What are the various factors affecting GDSS?
Q.2. Write short notes on any four of the following:
a) Simons Model
b) Decision Making Process
c) DSS Tools and techniques
d) The VBA Language
e) OLTP
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PAPER- 18.C
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.Discuss the various types of models in operation research? What are the
various reasons for carrying inventory?
Q.2. A company manufactures television and radio sets has four major
departments: chassis, cabinet, assembly and final testing. The monthly capacities
of these are as follows:

Television

Radio

Chassis

1500

or

4500

Cabinet

1000

or

8000

Assembly

2000

or

4000

Testing

3000

or

9000

The contribution of television set is Rs 500 and that of a radio set Rs 250. Assume
that the company can sell any quantity of either product. Formulate this problem as
an LP model to determine the optimal combination of television and radio sets.

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.A contractor has to supply 10,000 bearings per day to an automobile
manufacturer. He finds that when he starts production run, he can produce 25,000
bearings per day. The cost of holding a bearing in stock for a year is Rs 2 and setup cost of a production run is Rs 180. How frequently should production run be
made?
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Q.2. Write short notes on any four

a) Linear programming model
b) Queuing process
c) Failure in replacement decision
d) Simulation process
e) EOQ Model
f) Application of operation research

Paper-18.d
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1. a) Explain buyer or consumer behavior.
b) What are the factors influencing consumers buying decision process?
Q.2.What is product life cycle? Explain the various stages of product lifecycle

ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.What is product differentiation? What are the tools for product differentiation?
Q 2 a) Define market research.
b) Explain the popular methods for data collection.

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Paper-18.e
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT No-1
Q.1.Write short note on the following:
a) Total quality management
b) Just in time manufacturing
c) KANBAN
Q.2. a) What is lean manufacturing? Discuss the term KAIZEN in detail.
b) Explain the ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems
ASSIGNMENT No-2
Q.1.Explain the following:
a) Total productive maintenance
b) Benchmarking
Q.2.Write short note on the following:
a) Quality performance
b) Cost of quality

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