General Motors
• You are acting in the role of a supply management analyst
• Select any company or segment of any company from the fortune 500 list
• You are to evaluate the company from a supply management perspective
• Your evaluation will be based on the elements from your learning throughout the course but will require additional research on the particular company
• Your evaluation should include:
- An Introduction to the company and its business, policies and organizational structure
- Types of strategic sourcing strategies. What is insourced and what is outsourced and why
- What is sourced in CONUS and OCONUS and why
- Types of contract strategies (Long Term, Short Term, Fixed Price, Cost Plus, etc.)
- Types of quality management and or environmental standards required and used
- Types of risk and risk management strategies
- Types of supplier relationships, develop and manage strategies (include the number of suppliers)
- Types of supplier evaluation and selection techniques or methods or strategies
- Explain the most important supplier performance requirements and measurements (Quality of products or service; on time delivery; cost management; etc.)
- Types of information technology used
- Types of cost manage methods used
- Future vision or direction for the company
• Your formal written evaluation should be no more than 12 double spaced pages using Times New Roman size 12 font in APA format
• You will prepare a 10 - 15 Page PowerPoint on your paper to be presented during the last weekend session
• Email a copy of your PowerPoint presentation to the instructor by midnight prior to the day of your presentation