RLMT305/Best Practices in Reverse Logistic Operations
Discuss green issues and focus on economic and supply chain issues related to reverse logistics (Rogers & Tibben-Lembke, 1998).
Identify the current best practices and examine them to develop information about trends in reverse logistics practices
Question 5
. The ‘Words-in-a-Sentence” (WIS) exercise was a competitive endeavor that pitted several teams in class against each other in the WIS industry.
Each team was allowed to organize and re-organize during the course of the exercise. In Chapter 3 of Thompson et al., the concept of driving forces is discussed relative to an organization’s external environment.
a. What driving forces were prevalent in the WIS exercise?
b. What were the key success factors of the WIS industry?
c. Finally, discuss the concept of ‘equifinality’ as presented in the WISexercise? How does ‘equifinality’ affect the strategy-making process in general?
COLL300 research questions, statement and rhetorical analysis
Write three of your research questions here (remember that, if the question can be answered by YES or NO, it is a closed-ended question that does not invite discussion and so should be revised):
Question 1.
Question 2.
Question 3.
Write your statement here (one complete sentence that is not a question):
Write paragraphs that respond to the questions below:
1. What is my purpose in writing this paper?
2. What do already know about my topic? What are my feelings toward this topic?
3. What do my readers already know? What are my readers’ feelings toward the topic?
4. What do my readers need to know to understand my point?
5. What information do need to research and add to my paper?
Begin by looking at the research question(s) which triggered this statement. Then explain your purpose (passing the course is not the purpose here).
Your statement is a good place to start, but you need to go a bit further. Are you trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or do something else? Consider the “audience take-away.”
What do you want your readers to know, feel, or believe when they finish reading your research paper? A clear understanding of your purpose will help you decide what information to include in your paper and how to organize your paper.
British Airways World Cargo
Submit your formal 10-12 page research paper on the approved topic of your choice related to a major air cargo operator or hub.
Overview of Transportation; Retail Logistics Issues
Minimum of 250 words answer the two below questions.
1. What do you think should be the order of priority of each of the nine transportation issues today?
2. How would this prioritization address issues in retail logistics?
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What are all of the potential problems mentioned in the text?
What are the possible causes for the current situation? Again, be creative Think outside the box and as an objective analyst. Place yourself into the role as detective and consultant.
What tools/techniques/methods would you use to identify, and possibly quantify/qualify, those issues?
Assignment
This assignment has two parts. The first part is creating to chart with the data provide in the excel spreadsheet. It has the instruction on how to do it. Also, will adding a youtube link of an instructor speaking about the assignment. watch while completing the assignment for a better understanding.
What the second part of these assignment is report template base of the excel spreadsheet data. what the youtube video to get a complete understanding of the assignment. make sure you follow exactly how the report template paper is supposed to be written.
Have upload an example of what report template supposed look like when completed. Also, have add book citation on case study word document as well.
Make sure the paper is at least full 1.5 pages without including the cover, and reference page. follow format in the example report template. Do not use any information from the example report template.
Changing Requirements after Contract Award
Assignment instructions: You are required to submit a 3-to-4 page research paper (not counting the references page) and an accompanying PowerPoint presentation which you will present during a 7-10 minute briefing to the class.
Within the context of your paper and your presentation you should (at a minimum) address the following:
1. Under what authority are changes to the requirements allowed after contract award?
2. Discuss how changes to requirements after award may affect the scope of the contract.
3. What must the contracting officer do if a requested change is determined to be outside the scope of the contract?
4. Describe how contract scope decisions have been addressed by GAO, courts, etc. Provide at least two cases with different decision outcomes.
Note: You are NOT limited to discussing the above questions.
Best Practices
Report on best practices from at least three separate organizations. Use sources from the Supply Chain Brain in addition to any trade or professional periodicals or company web sites. Do not use press releases as references! Also, make sure to cite and reference all your sources.
Different manufacturing processes have different strengths and weaknesses as some are best suited to making small numbers of customized products, while others excel at producing large volumes of standard item.
Companies must therefore carefully consider the strengths and weaknesses of different processes and make appropriate decisions as part of their overall business strategy not just in relation to the right equipment but also to include people, facilities and physical layouts as well as information systems (Bozarth and Handfield, p. 55).
Consequently, an ideal manufacturing system must be flexible and yet efficient, with low unit production costs.
Based on the above, you are asked to take as an example a product or a service from an industry that you are familiar with (e.g., food, technology, healthcare, retail, services, automotive), and critically:
i. Examine the current process design of that product or service in alliance with the 4 Vs model and illustrate the operational process by using either a Flow Chart or Value Stream Map technique.
ii. Discuss how implementation of Lean Principles and Just -in- Time (JIT) manufacturing may assist in achieving a more flexible and yet efficient process design. Justify your answer by referring to the 5 Performances model.
Follow a report format. Therefore, you should have a title page, contents page, sections and sub sections, page numbers, appendix section etc.
Use diagrams, illustrations, tables, graphics etc. wherever these are helpful, and remember that these do not count towards your word limit.
Try to use theory explicitly at all stages, but do not spend too much time describing a theory.
While you must be explicit about the theories, models, techniques etc. that you use, you can assume that the reader is familiar with them.
What the reader requires is evidence of your ability to understand and apply the theory and learn from in order to support the development of your findings and/or ideas.
You must cite all sources on which you have relied, for example textbooks, journal articles, web pages etc. using the Harvard Bibliographic referencing system
You will also need to take the following into account when completing your assignment:
• Quality of executive summary (does it give a brief complete summary of your paper for an executive to read?)
• Establishment of relevant theory
• Allocation of credit and sources used (have included references and citations to the material have used?)
• Clarity of argument
• Overall report presentation including spelling and grammar
• Adherence to nominated word limit (+/- 10%)
• Word processed (letter size 12, times new roman, 1.5 space), fully referenced (Harvard Referencing System)
