ASSIGNMENT: Logistics Management
Learning Outcome:
1. Analyze and identify challenges and issues pertaining to logistical processes.
2. Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.
3.The capacity to write coherent project about actual logistic case studies.
Critical Thinking
The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggestlogistics performance priorities.
Use Saudi digital Library (SDL) search engine.
Source: In 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design June 2005 83(6):662-673
Read out the research paper carefully andbased on your understanding you should answer the following questions.
Questions:
1. Why Manufacturing Companies focuses on Lean Thinking?
2. What is meant by the term overproduction? Why do you think this has been described as the biggest waste of all?
3. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking. What are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?
Article: THE BENEFITS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING What Lean Thinking has to Offer the Process Industries by T. MELTON.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.