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STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

 

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ISCOM 370 Week 1 Strategic Supply Chain Management

Choose a large global company.

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,575-word paper in which you discuss the following items:

  • Define supply chain management.

  • Define how supply chain management has evolved over the past 20 years.

  • Describe the primary components of your selected company’s supply chain, and explain the importance of each component.

  • Discuss how the three key supply chain decision phases are used at this company and provide examples.

  • Provide examples of how your selected company has (or does not have) an advantage over its competitors through the use of its supply chain.

  • Analyze the financial impact establishing a supply chain had on your selected company.

  • Explain the organizational considerations related to your selected company’s supply chain.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite a minimum of two references to support your paper.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

 

ISCOM 370 Week 2 Aspects of a Supply Chain

Choose a global company as a team.

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes that addresses the following:

  • Describe your selected company’s supply chain design.

  • Identify whether your selected company’s supply chain design is product or service oriented, explain the reasoning for your choice.

  • Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the supply chain design.

  • Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your selected company’s supply chain strategy.

  • Describe how quality control processes can be used to improve your selected company’s supply chain performance.

  • Recommend improvements to the supply chain at your selected company using course concepts from this week’s required reading.

Cite any references to support your paper.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual contributions to the Learning Team assignment. Each Learning Team member receives a grade based upon his/her contributions to the team assignment. Not all students may receive the same grade for the team assignment.

ISCOM 370 Week 3 Forecasting and Constraint Study

Choose a different company from the Week 3 Supply Chain Constraints assignment as well as those that you selected in Weeks 1 and 2. You may include the company you work for if not used previously.

Write a 700- to 1,225-word proposal to the CEO in which you include the following items (supported by course concepts and real life examples):

  • Research two or three forecasting models, tools, and simulation models to determine the effectiveness of each, and describe how and why each will bring value to the company.

  • Discuss how various constraints – such as information technology (IT), limited capacity, technology, and capital – affect the company’s supply chain.

  • Analyze the expected pros and cons against the company’s current operational performance in order to propose four or five improvements to the existing supply chain.

  • Compare the four or five proposed improvements using the Comparison Matrix provided.

  • Evaluate how each would affect the company’s supply chain performance in the proposal.

  • Summarize the proposed improvements that should be implemented into the company’s supply chain.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment along with the Comparison Matrix.

 

ISCOM 370 Week 3 Supply Chain Constraints

Choose a different company from the Week 3 Forecasting and Constraint Study assignment as well as those that you selected in Weeks 1 and 2. You may include the company you work for if not used previously.

Write a paper of 1,050 to 1,575 words in which you complete the following:

  • Discuss how the company responds to predictable variability and integrates aggregate planning into the supply chain.

  • Describe how supply is managed at this company.

  • Describe how demand is determined at this company.

  • Explain how the sales and operations plan of this company affects its supply chain performance and maximizes the company’s profitability.

  • Assess the effect of risk management processes on supply chain constraints.

  • Evaluate strategies that this company can employ to improve overall supply chain performance and overcome potential constraints.

  • Include examples and cited resources in support of your argument.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

 

ISCOM 370 Week 4 Sourcing Strategy

Resource: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Ch. 15

Read Sections 15.2 In-House or Outsource? on pages 435-441, and 15.9 Making Sourcing Decisions in Practice on pages 463-465 in the Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation textbook.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following:

  • Provide a detailed overview of the advantages of outsourcing and aggregation, and describe two to three cases of when it may be most effective for a company to pursue outsourcing opportunities.

  • Evaluate potential risks to using a third party within one’s supply chain, as well as possible consequences for a company’s supply chain if things were to go wrong.

  • Select a company of your choosing, and determine one or two products or services that may benefit from outsourced production (e.g. a product with high production costs, high warehousing costs, 24/7 customer service needs, website development/maintenance).

  • Determine the product lead time needed, and develop a timeline from the initiation of the project to project completion.

  • Research third parties for possible outsourcing opportunities, and appraise the third party’s estimated labor and production costs, warehousing capacity, transportation modes/channels, quality assurance practices, and other relevant factors as applicable.

  • Assess potential problems and solutions in each of these areas.

  • Determine whether or not it makes sense for the company to outsource its product or service based upon a comparison of all of the variables involved, and summarize your conclusions using relevant examples.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Cite your references to support your paper.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual contributions to the Learning Team assignment. Each Learning Team member receives a grade based upon his/her contributions to the team assignment. Not all students may receive the same grade for the team assignment.

 

ISCOM 370 Week 5 Blue Nile and Diamond Retailing Case Study

Resource: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Ch. 4

Read the Blue Nile and Diamond Retailing Case Study on pages 103-107 in Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations, Ch. 4.

Prepare an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes, and address the following:

  • Explain the key industry success factors in diamond retailing for Blue Nile, Zale’s, and Tiffany’s.

  • Blue Nile carries more than 30,000 stones priced at $2,500 or higher, while 60% of the products sold from Tiffany’s web site are prices around $200.  Which of the two product categories is better suited to the strengths of the online channel?  Why?  Support your answer with course concepts and examples.

  • Tiffany stores have thrived by focusing on the sale of high-end jewelry. Why do you think Zale’s upscale strategy failed in 2006?

  • Which of the three companies do you believe is best structured to overcome weak economic conditions? Describe how the company’s structure is related to its distribution channels; and explain how changes in market conditions may impact overall company performance.

  • What advice would you give to each of the three companies regarding their future strategy and structure?

Cite your references.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual contributions to the Learning Team assignment. Each Learning Team member receives a grade based upon his/her contributions to the team assignment. Not all students may receive the same grade for the team assignment.

 

ISCOM 370 Week 5 Supply Chain Analysis

Choose one of the companies that you evaluated in Weeks 1-4; preferably a company that is growing.

Write 700- to 1,225-word supply chain analysis for the CEO in which you complete the following:

  • Describe the role of distribution in the supply chain.

  • Evaluate factors that have an influence upon the company’s distribution channels.

  • Assess technological innovations that this company can implement to improve its distribution channels.

  • Summarize your conclusions.

  • Develop a plan for integrating these changes into the supply chain.

  • Choose the metrics that will be used to evaluate whether or not revisions to the company’s distribution channels increased overall supply chain productivity and performance.

Format your analysis according to APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.