Assess strategic relationships to negotiate internally between business functions, including procurement, and externally with business partners.

Business Relationship Management and Strategic Procurement

Research and write a case study article on an effective relationship management strategy that incorporates a critical appraisal of current practice.
Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed.
1. Appraise business relationship management concepts to successfully manage a
relationship in a project, operations, and/or supply chain.
2. Examine the nature of business relationship management practices.
3. Assess strategic relationships to negotiate internally between business functions, including procurement, and externally with business partners.

Evaluate specific aspects of an industry in depth, reporting on the level of sustainability seen in the present day and making recommendations for future improvements.

Strategies for Sustainable Business Logistics

In this item of assessment you are required to submit an individual report in which you evaluate specific aspects of an industry in depth, reporting on the level of sustainability seen in the present day and making recommendations for future improvements.

For the January 2022 instance of the module, the industry under study is the ready-made garment industry: you can select any part of the supply network that produces garments, or footwear, or materials such as the fibres are made into garments. Your work will be a 3,000 word report, submitted via Canvas. This assignment is worth 40% of the total grade for the module.

Background:

The ready-made garment industry forms an important part of the economy of some nations. It’s a vast, global undertaking… but its operation has accompanied by concerns and even scandals. From factory disasters and sweatshop conditions to forced labour where cotton is grown; from toxic emissions to the wasteful practices of retailers and consumers… our consumption of garments has a significant impact on society and the natural world.

Identify the topic/issue, provide a resolution/approach, examine the literature, give examples, and provide a conclusion.

Mode of transportation / advantages and disadvantages

The mid-term paper is based on the topics covered in the first 4 weeks of class. You may pick a topic already covered in class such as regulation/deregulation of the industry, or a mode of transportation and its impact on the supply chain, even a mode of transportation and it advantages and disadvantages.

The approach of the paper should be from a business logistics/supply chain using a managerial perspective. Based on material already covered in class, identify the topic/issue, provide a resolution/approach, examine the literature, give examples, and provide a conclusion. Please provide appropriate sources to back-up your work. Peer-reviewed articles from the library, Government websites, and GAO reports should be used when looking for sources.

 

What Supply Chain lessons were learned? What suggestions might you give to the role players to effectuate different and perhaps more satisfying results?

Financial Management for the Supply Chain Professional – Video Critique

A critique is an analytical essay on a video, in which you give your opinion on the aesthetic quality of the video and then give your reasons for your opinion. Do not limit yourself to reacting to the video and do not use generic terms like “incredible,” “wonderful,” “marvelous,” etc. Unlike a review, you assume that the reader has already seen the video; you do not need to give an extensive plot summary; you do not need to hide plot information so as not to spoil the surprise of the viewer, and you do need to be consistently analytical and critical.

Your first paragraph should summarize the film’s plot and act as a transition to the analytical part of the essay.

The second paragraph should explain how the Supply Chain concepts for the week were depicted by the film and why the depiction was or was not meaningful. What Supply Chain lessons were learned? What suggestions might you give to the role players to effectuate different and perhaps more satisfying results?

List a minimum of four additional budget line items in the table below with a rationale to ensure smooth warehouse operations in Australia. Support your rationale by including various logistics activity measures.

Creating a Logistics Plan for International Transport and Warehousing of Goods

In your report ,

Select one of the two SLM contracts described above.
Analyze the product’s physical properties, volume, and quantities to determine if the product’s shipment size is small or a larger shipment .
Evaluate at least two modes of transportation that best support the organization’s supply chain for shipping the product from one country to another, door-to-door, in a multimodal shipment. Explain your reasoning.
Identify the type of warehouses that SLM should employ in Australia to ensure a rapid movement of goods. Recommend either public, private, or contract warehousing and explain how your recommendation supports SLM’s supply chain management.
List and describe the necessary commercial, banking, and shipping documents that comply with export and import procedures in the United States. These may include a commercial invoice, certificate of origin, shipper’s export declaration, shipper’s letter of instruction, bill of lading, freight bill, and letter of credit.
Determine the appropriate Incoterms® 2010 rule, depending on the shipment mode and buyers’ and sellers’ responsibilities.
Select a process  and explain how the process can be implemented to ensure effective and efficient warehouse operations techniques are in place that support the company’s supply chain design.
List a minimum of four additional budget line items in the table below with a rationale to ensure smooth warehouse operations in Australia. Support your rationale by including various logistics activity measures, cost drivers, profit models, and the role of inventory and how they influence SLM’s financial outcomes.

Discuss the complex interplay of issues that are found within the chosen category or sector.

Strategies for Sustainable Business Logistics

In this item of assessment, you are required to submit an individual written piece on the pursuit of sustainability in a category of products, services, or works of your choice. It is recommended that you select an industrial sector with which you are familiar, either through work experience or existing interest.

Select any category of products, services or works to discuss with one limitation: to be relevant to the degree you are studying it should include a supply network and a logistics component. Thus, the pursuit of sustainability in pet food manufacturing, house building, holidays or publishing would be fine; selling insurance or mining cryptocurrency might be harder to fit into the assignment brief.
Discuss the complex interplay of issues that are found within the chosen category or sector, as businesses seek to achieve sustainability of the kind argued for by Elkington who suggested that genuine sustainability requires simultaneous achievements against the often competing dimensions of financial.

Identify the major advantages of automated materials handling systems versus manual or nonautomated systems.

Materials Management and Handling in Supply Chain

Review & Analyze

In today’s manufacturing environment, companies are faced with continuing challenges involving production and relationships to supplier locations. The logistics of material flow, communication, sequencing, and the return of transport items require substantial coordination to meet production demand.

A company’s material handling system and processes are put in place to improve customer service, reduce inventory, shorten delivery time, and lower overall handling costs in manufacturing, distribution and transportation.

After reviewing the assessment above answer the following questions.

1. Identify the major advantages of automated materials handling systems versus manual or nonautomated systems.
2. In what ways do materials handling systems impact the efficiency and effectiveness of the warehouse?

Evaluate how the industry/sector has managed  to tackle inventory management related issues that arose after the COVID-19 breakout.

Global Supply Chain Management

“Coronavirus disease 2019  has brought to light the fact that supply chains function as the veins of our economy and society. Societies and businesses across the world have faced unprecedented challenges due to the disruptions that the coronavirus outbreak, and the consequent great lockdown, have caused.

Individuals, for instance, have dealt with a range of changes in their lives, from self-isolation to difficulties stocking up on essentials.,” https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MSCRA-05-2020-0011/full/html

Based on the above statement, you are asked to choose a sector/industry , and critically:

Appraise how the supply chain structure has been changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Evaluate how the industry/sector has managed  to tackle inventory management related issues that arose after the COVID-19 breakout.
Discuss how advanced technologies may help the industry/sector to recover and improve its overall supply chain performance.