Supply Chain Management

Assignment brief (individual):

Background and your task:
This assignment is designed to enable you to apply the knowledge that you have gained during this module by applying supply chain mapping techniques to an organization (and/or product) of your choice and to identify opportunities for improvement (e.g. cost removal, added value, risk reduction, time reduction).

Submission date:
Your completed report should be submitted via Blackboard

Notes
• There are no limitations (e.g. size, sector, geography) regarding the selection of the organization.
• There is no requirement for the use of a specific software.
• The report should be structured as follows:

• Introduction
• Lit. review (emphasising on supply chain mapping and on the comparison of two supply chain mapping commercial software solutions).
• Empirical part
• Research design (e.g. technique used, justification, description of the process)
• Results (the expectation is that you will produce a supply chain mapping graph)
• Findings-Conclusion (“so what”?)
• References
  Descriptive details of Assignment:
  • Document Title e.g. Student

Writing guidelines:

• Assignments should be 3,000 words long (excluding tables, graphs and spreadsheets). There will be a penalty of 15% for those reports exceeding the word limit by more than 15%.
• Reports should be written using the Arial font at a size of 12 and with 1.5
spacing between lines. There should be clear spacing between paragraphs, sections and subsections.