School of Management, Doon University, in collaboration with National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), will organise an MSME conclave cum conference (MSMEC2) on “Sustainable supply chain capabilities of micro, small and medium enterprises: Influences, practices, training needs and employment opportunities” on May 10 this year.
NIESBUD is an autonomous institute under ministry of MSME, Government of India.India is among the fastest transition economies and it is emerging to its next stage of growth. India leads the world ranking in shared service domain while rapidly emerging as a preferred location for manufacturing and supplier partnership for many foreign corporations.
Due to change in the business landscape, Indian firms have started recognising and strategically addressing the use of potential of suppliers (allied industrial firms, ancillary units -specially small and micro firms). However, they are not able to effectively map the supply chain learning particularly, in cost, quality, customer responsiveness, delivery lead-time, flexibility and overall Skill set development and training needs of the workforce through better supply chain planning, coordination and information sharing.
Recently, both small and micro firms have received significant attention from researchers, practitioners and Government agencies. In India, despite the dual importance of the integrated supply chain as a strategic tool and as enablers for better control and communication, there is dearth of quality research
initiatives that elaborate the importance of small and micro supplier firms, their skills enhancement and training needs.This conference is aimed at bringing together academicians, voluntary agencies, corporate executives, research scholars and students.
The sub-themes of the conference are: training needs and skills level in MSMEs sector, supply chain network of small and micro enterprises: advantages and issues, core competence and competitiveness of MSMEs, SCM practices on sustainable performance of SMEs, small and micro enterprises as a laboratory sandbox for developing strategies, role of financial institutions and banks, intellectual property rights and patent rights, women participation, gender and empowerment issues in MSMEs and micro finance issues.