Background
Management of
International Logistics and Operations and is a vital component when measuring
both internal and external success of a business (Bowzarth and Handfield, 2008;
Christopher, 2011). Subsequently, both achieving and sustaining customer and
company requirements can be considered essential components for both success
and survival in the competitive global market of the twenty first century
(Kirchmer, 2009). Subsequently, organisations can use a variety of operations
tools, techniques, methods and processes in order to ensure they achieve and
sustain meeting both customer and company requirements.
Task
You are required
to focus on a specific field (i.e. Supply Chain, Lean Thinking, New Product
Development etc.) and apply this field to a business or case study. You should
clearly demonstrate how and where this application could assist the Management
of Operations and Logistics Management. Your business or case study may be
either a service or manufacturing, and you must clearly demonstrate the
benefits of application and implementation from an international perspective.
It is imperative within your discussion that you clearly address the following
points:
• Conduct and
critique a systems analysis of operational activities within your chosen field
and case scope
• Apply and
critically evaluate analytical tools, techniques, methods and processes to
describe operational processes.
• Critically evaluate
the positive and negative attributes associated with the field in relation to
the chosen case.
• Explore and analyse
the gap between evaluation and implementation of operational and business
process improvement.
Analyze
multidimensional operational issues and apply techniques that could assist in
either resolving or significantly reducing problematic operational issues
within your chosen field and case scope.
• Draw key
conclusions from your assignment, that discuss the extent your business or case
study has achieved alignment between both its performanceobjectives, and the
configuration of its logistical and operational processes in addressing your
assignment aim.
Format
Your assignment
should be in a report format, being clearly structured using headings,
sub-headings etc. You should include an executive summary (300 words maximum)
at the beginning of the report, however, this is not included in your word
count. Your assignment should be presented using Times New Roman (TNR) 12 font,
1.5 line spacing, and it should be approximately 5,000 (+/- 10%) words in
length. Your word count is from the introduction to conclusion sections.
You must endeavour
to use theory explicitly at all stages, but do not spend time describing a
theory. While you must be explicit about the theories, models, etc. that you
use, you can assume that the reader is familiar with them. What the reader does
want, is clear evidence of your ability to understand and critically apply the
theory, in order to support the development of your findings and/or ideas in
relation to testing your assignment aim.
You must cite all
sources on which you have relied, for example textbooks, journal articles etc.
using the Harvard Bibliographic Referencing System. Please be aware that if you
do not cite all sources, then you may be accused of plagiarism, and that may
endanger your success in passing the module. If you are in any doubt about how
to reference your work, please obtain guidance from the library and/or your
academic librarian(s) for this module.
Please do
use illustrations, tables, etc. wherever these are helpful, and remember that
these do not count towards your word limit. If you do use these, please do not
put them in the appendices if they are part of your discussion. Appendices are
the appropriate places to put supporting material, however, remember if the
reader is satisfied with the main points of your discussion; the supporting information
within the appendices may not even be reviewed.
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