Reference no: EM132324363

Global Supply Chain Management

Assignment:

Successful Supply Chain Management is a vital component when measuring both internal and external success of a business. Achieving and sustaining customer, tiered supplier and company requirements is an essential ingredient for both success and survival in the competitive global market of the twenty first century.

Based on the above statement, you are asked to choose a sector/industry (e.g., food, technology, healthcare, retail, services, automotive), and critically discuss:

i. Critically evaluate the positive and negative attributes associated with the field in relation to the chosen case.

ii. Explore and critically analyse the gap between evaluation and implementation of supply chain improvement.

iii. Analyse multidimensional global supply chain issues and apply techniques that could assist in either resolving or significantly reducing problematic supply chain issues within your chosen sector/industry.

For each question above, you should support your arguments by bringing into the discussion 1-2 examples of companies that belong to the selected sector/industry.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyse and critically evaluate the ways in which supply chains are adapted in view of specific market dynamics and environments.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of global lead-time management and time-compression.

• Critically analyse the theory, concepts and models of global supply chain management to interpret and understand complex and ambiguous risks in global logistics and supply chain environments.

• Locate, summarise and synthesise a range of information from published literature and electronic sources on GSCM.