Strategic Supply Chain Management
Assignment
The assignment is in two parts with a sub-section [(i) and (ii) in part a] and will require you to:-
a. Teamwork Oral presentation (This part of the assignment is a team - based activity.)
a) (i) As part of a Group, organize, implement and produce a Power point Presentation on an evaluation of a supply chain organization (ie part of a Supply Network in either a Manufacturing; Retail or Service Industry) and make an oral presentation of your findings. Your Presentation should include your Primary selected data on the organization. Also regular group meeting minutes should be produced and included in a hard copy submission of meeting minutes taken during the course of the assignment with a copy of your presentation sides. Your consideration should be to the organizations' approach to its supply chain strategic focus.
(ii) Make a 20 minute Group presentation to the class analysing the strategic role of the organization within its supply chain and assessing its operation in terms of its supply chain strategy.
Task a:-
The Presentation should be planned for a group of 4 people (everyone presents) and should take place in the semester. A level of Primary research is expected and should be ideally conducted via an organisation visit but electronic means of interview can be considered as an alternative.
When arranging the visit and interview, the group must agree with the management of the location, and must prepare a briefing sheet to be handed out or sent electronically before the visit and interview. When making a visit the group must organize transport to and from the site. All groups must prepare a summary of the research, analyse the role of the organisation with regard to its supply chain strategy and assess its operation in terms of the supply chain practice you believe is appropriate identified from the Lecture and Seminar Sessions of this module. Also organize appropriate thanks to the host organisation where you gained the primary research. All additional material such as Group Meeting Minutes should be in the Appendices. Plans must be discussed and agreed with the tutor, and a suitable visit confirmed by week 6 of the semester.
The group presentation should aim to comment upon the strategic role of the organization within its supply chain, and its efficiency and effectiveness in performing that role. You should draw on and use reading and learning from the whole module, and position the organization in terms of strategic supply chain best practice. Marks will be awarded for quality of presentation as well as content. Assessed Presentations will be made to the class in teaching weeks 11 and 12 and agreed with the Tutor.
Your group hard copy submission to the UG Office (date advised by the UG Office) will include
(1) A hard copy of the presentation slides
(2) meeting minutes of meetings held by the group in creating the presentation
(3) Ethics forms
(4) Brief written report (300 words) analysis of group findings and short conclusion (150 words).
b) Individually to prepare a 3000 word +/-10% document using your group analysed
organization as a Case Study to compare their supply chain strategy against a comprehensive Literature Review of supply chain appropriate practice which you individually identify as you see appropriate to evaluating the case study organization. You should develop a significant individual literature review during the course of the assignment.
Undertake significant research and literature review to develop their case and this MUST be evident in their portfolio and oral presentation.
b. Individual - based Assignment
The Individual written report should be no more than 3200 words +/- 10% in length and the individual skills that you need to show here are that you can analyze your Case Study organization from your case study analysis in Part a, and compare their supply chain strategy against a comprehensive Literature Review (30 references) of appropriate practice that you individually identify as appropriate to your case study organization, developed during the course of the assignment. All references to be shown in a Reference section at the end of the report.
Include an Abstract (200 words max not in word count)
Introduction 100 words and Conclusion 200 words ( both included in the word count)
Use minimum 30 peer reviewed academic journal articles as part of their critical evaluation in both introduction and main body. Please, note the expectation is for 30 individual articles, not 30 in-text citations.
Write in APA format.
Given below is the link of powerpoint presentation.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypbq3r7l823fdva/Presentation-%20.rar?dl=0