ISCOM/374

INTEGRATED LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

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ISCOM 374 Week 1 Logistics and the Supply Chain

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper defining logistics and discuss how logistics influences the supply chain.

Define logistics and discuss the increased importance of logistics on satisfying customer requirements for a product or service.

Identify and describe the managerial issues that influence logistics and directly impact the supply chain.

Drawing on personal experience, provide an example of a logistics managerial issue which lead to customer dissatisfaction, and one example where logistics plays a crucial role in customer satisfaction.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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ISCOM 374 Week 1 Consider Technology

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation addressing the following:

• List the six general types of information management systems, and give one logistics application to each one of the types listed. Highlight the advantages and/or disadvantages.
• Which technological advances do you view as being most beneficial to logistics management?
• What critical factors of technological advances would help an organization improve the performance of the logistics system and the ability to meet customer requirements?
• Explain how these strategies relate to financial performance.

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ISCOM 374 Week 2 Supply Chain Process

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation with Speaker Notes addressing the following:

• Differentiate between supply chain management and a supply chain.
• Analyze the supply chain management process frameworks (SCOR and GSCF).
• Identify how the logistics function contributes to the supply chain management process established in the SCOR and GSFC models.
• Investigate an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) and identify how the functionality of an ERP system can help optimize Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return.

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ISCOM 374 Week 2 Demand Management Scenario

Your Learning Team represents a newly formed logistics department at a plastic manufacturing company. The company is currently underperforming with on-time deliveries. The Hangzhou, China location is consistently under 93%. The company goal is to be at or above 96% on-time deliveries. It has been discovered China is not forecasting and the demand is driving the service levels down. The company president has challenged the Logistics Team to improve the on-time deliveries from 93% on average to 96% on average at the Hangzhou, China location.

Prepare a 700-word paper explaining how using demand forecasting methods can improve on-time deliveries and which to consider for the Hangzhou, China demand plan. Include the following:

• Compare and contrast the benefits of each forecast method and then make a final recommendation for the best technique to implement in Hangzhou, China.
• Analyze the impact on the organization of forecasting and inventory strategies from both a manufacturing and service perspective.
• Identify and describe how the chosen forecasting method will improve the purchasing of resin and meet the goal of 96% on-time deliveries.

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ISCOM 374 Week 3 Inventory and Purchasing Considerations

Based on your Learning Team’s earlier work, your department’s forecasting recommendation has made vast improvements to the Hangzhou, China on-time deliveries. However, the company president has concerns the resin inventory levels are not ordered in the most optimal quantities. The purchasing department needs your team’s help on when and how much to order.

Prepare a 700-word paper defining inventory management and how inventory relates to costs. Conclude with a recommendation to use an inventory ordering strategy keeping in mind the certainty or uncertainty of the customer demand at the Hangzhou, China location.

Discuss inventory management and differentiate between carrying, ordering, and stock-out costs.

Identify and discuss the strategies of when to order (re-order points – ROP) and how to order (economic order quantities – EOQ).

Analyze the impact that using one of these strategies has on inventory levels and associated costs.

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ISCOM 374 Week 3 Warehousing

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper defining warehousing and discussing its strategic role within the logistics system.

Discuss the role of warehousing in a logistics system.

Differentiate between the different warehouse types and explain the aspects of each one of the warehouse types.

Identify why a company or industry would benefit from using one warehouse type in contrast to another warehouse type.

Investigate a warehouse management system (WMS) on the Internet. Identify the benefits WMS has on a warehouse operation.

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ISCOM 374 Week 4 The Transportation Bid Challenge

Scenario:

Hello Logistics Team!  This is the company president here in our Hangzhou, China location. First, I want to personally thank the team for doing such a remarkable job with the Forecasting and Inventory improvements. The Company is now exceeding the 96% on-time delivery goal in Asia and the inventory costs have been optimized. Second, today new opportunities have emerged. My good friend and colleague Carl Convoy has informed me Convoy Trucking has decided not to invest in new equipment and as a result our Company is now going to announce a bid to other transportation companies for the Plastic Bottles manufactured at the Albany, GA location. This is an exciting time for us. Due to the Logistics Team success, I am counting on the team to lead us into this strategic aspect of doing business while I remain in China. Once again I am very pleased with the Logistics Team and counting on your future contributions. Regards, Mr. President.

Prepare a 700-word paper explaining Contemporary Transportation Management and discuss how rates are determined.

Analyze the modal and carrier selection process and distinguish among the various transportation documents.

Investigate a transportation bid collaboration system on the Internet. Explain the benefits the system can have on a transportation bid process.

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ISCOM 374 Week 4 Materials Handling/ Packaging Field Research Report

Introduction: You are a consultant hired by a consumer products research company to analyze the packaging of various consumer products. Your first assignment is to go into a retail store and pick three products which consumers purchase on a frequent basis. Then, from a consumer perspective, identify the products and complete the Materials Handling/Packaging Analysis Checklist found on the student website in which you rate each item’s packaging.

Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word field research report assessing how technology impacts materials handling and packaging discussions.

Draw comparisons between two of your chosen products and identify what aspects of their packaging would assist or hinder the materials handling function for the logistics provider. If these were products you were manufacturing, what packaging changes would you recommend and why?

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ISCOM 374 Week 5 Plastic Bottle Supply to China: Global Considerations Report

Scenario:

Hello Logistics Team. This is Mr. President here in our Hangzhou, China location. Once again, I want to reiterate the Logistics Team is doing an outstanding job. Thank you for leading the transportation bid process. It is interesting to see how Convoy Trucking won the bid and has invested in additional equipment. Business here in China has evolved. Customers are delighted with our company and have requested supply for plastic bottles from our Albany, GA location. The company has decided to go global with the plastic bottles. The challenge is the plastic bottle supply chain is different than the existing products supplied by our company in China.  Once again, I am in need for the Logistics Team to manage the aspect of this product expansion to China. I will be traveling to other regions of the world the next few days and I am looking forward to reading the report and presenting a plan to the Board of Directors by the end of the week. Regards, Mr. President.

Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word global considerations report which will be used to discuss and examine the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a global enterprise. Include the following in your report:

• A brief overview describing the current logistics network given in this scenario and how your team would transition that network to a global supply chain. Be creative and design both the current and future networks as your team wishes to maximize the logistics efficiencies available.
• An analysis on the ethical and legal considerations in logistics management, both within the domestic United States and internationally.
• Analyze the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the supply chain given global distribution.
• Identification, and further examination, of the importance of cultural considerations when negotiating supply chain contracts in a global environment.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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ISCOM 374 Week 5 Transportation

Prepare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint® presentation with Speaker Notes addressing the following:

• Convoy Trucking just won a large bid with a new customer called H2Glow. The new customer is in the contaminated water business. To serve the newly acquired customer, Convoy Trucking is required to invest in new equipment and be compliant because the new contract involves intermodal transportation and transportation regulations because the water is classified as hazardous material.
• Identify and differentiate between what types of equipment Convoy Trucking may be required to purchase to transport contaminated water by intermodal.
• Define and analyze the regulations Convoy Trucking needs to comply with as the company begins to service the new customer by transporting and storing hazardous materials.
• Investigate a Transportation Management System (TMS) on the Internet. Explain how TMS is beneficial for Convoy Trucking.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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