Discuss briefly 4 types of Supply Networks: Spot/Virtual, Partnership, Vertical Integration, Tradition / Contractual. Give examples of the type of supply network relationship your company has with suppliers. Give examples of main suppliers to your company. What do they communicate – what kind of relationship is it ?

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Operational and Project Management Report

Topic 1.
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT – CHAPTERS 11 & 13:

For CM topic some content can include a mix of the below:
− Define capacity: objectives of capacity and capacity management: Cost, Revenue, Capital, Quality, Speed, Dependability, Flexibility.
− Matching Demand and Supply: Discuss what is Level Capacity, Chase Demand, Change Demand. Apply how company Forecast Demand and Methods of Adjusting Capacity examples.
− Types of Capacity: Discuss what are Design, Effective, Actual capacities. Discuss what is Capacity Utilisation and Efficiency.
− The five steps of Capacity Planning and Control which are: forecast demand, measure capacity, manage demand side, manage supply side, and understand the consequences of different capacity management systems
− Example for each stage could be included from the company on how to manage demand and capacity.
− Methods of Forecasting Demand and any seasonality and patterns of demand at the company
− Examples of types of votality forecasting at the company.

Other examples of application on SCM can include examples of:
− Highlight capacity management examples
− Give way how company managed to have high capacity utilization ( no waste of resources)
− Examples how company forecast future demand so capacity can handle demand.
− How pandemic impacted forecasting demand.
− Give examples where Design Capacity ends up lower when measuring actual capacity
− Give examples of excess capacity within the company ( waste of resources )
− Examples of coping solutions to increase capacity if demand increases unexpectedly.

Topic 2
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT – CHAPTER 12:

For SCM topic some content can include a mix of the below:
− SCM theory Intro: from Slack Textbook, Lectures slides, VLE and academic journals.
− Discuss the Supply Chain of your organisation (supply side and demand side) with examples from organisation.
− Discuss briefly 4 types of Supply Networks: Spot/Virtual, Partnership, Vertical Integration, Tradition / Contractual. Give examples of the type of supply network relationship your company has with suppliers. Give examples of main suppliers to your company. What do they communicate – what kind of relationship is it ?
− Lean vs Agile supply Networks – can include diagram/ chart on Nature of Demand vs. Supply Chain Objective Apply – Give examples of functional and innovative products from your company – Discuss Efficient vs Responsive Supply chain that your company has.
− De-coupling Point: You can give theory on this with one example at which point does the De-Coupling point in the Supply Chain, comes into play
− Selecting a Supplier: Initial Qualification > Agree Measurement criteria . Obtain information > Make Selection
− Bullwhip Effect: Discuss theory and shows some examples from your company. Other examples of application on SCM can include examples of:
− Highlight examples of any disruptions in supply chains on the company due to pandemic etc.
− Examples of contingency plans with suppliers or examples to remedy any challenges
− Any examples of Vertical Integration the company went through to control the supply chain.
− Highlight some Suppliers for the organisation and how are suppliers selected?
− Students can discuss the purchasing patterns, logistics and delivery patterns.
− How the company forecasts the demand / supply.
− You can give example of the De-coupling point at your organisation
− You can opt to define each of the lean and agile supply networks and show functional vs innovative and efficient vs responsive SCM.
− Compare lean and agile based on their advantages and disadvantages

Topic 3.
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT – CHAPTERS 13:

For IM topic some content can include a mix of the below:
− Types of Inventory and consequences and give examples of Inventory: Physical, Queues, Databases etc. Give examples from the company
− Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) – EOQ Charts is ideal with Total Cost, Holding Costs and Order Cost relationships to be discussed. Give examples from company what impacts the costs. Examples of where is inventory stored, ordered, delivered.

Can include EOQ = SQR of 2DC/h and discuss it in relation to their organisation.
− Pareto Curve / Class ABC System Theory: ie. Class A = 80% of total inventory value – Chart can be included Apply: Students can discuss which inventory items have the most value and are use most frequently at the organisation (
− Challenges of Inventory Systems: Quantity / Keying Errors, Damage, misplacements, wrong orders stores, delay in record updating, stolen items by staff at the company.
− Costs for Inventory: The nature of Placing Order and their costs, Working Capital Cost, Rent for storage, Facilities for inventory, Storage Cost, Staff Cost, Price discounts, Obsolesce / expiry date costs, Inefficiency Cost etc.
− Examples of Stocktaking process and inspections, theft control, forecasting orders, how orders are generated from company.

Other examples of application on SCM can include examples of:
− Examples of Inventory Management / Stocktaking procedure
− Apply the Class ABC and create table to shows items in A-B-C categories
− Some statistics / estimates on scope/size of the: Inventory / storage / wastage / order process / timing of orders / theft reduction / ideal stock level
− Examples of Physical / Queues of Customers / Cloud Digital Inventory Storage.
− Examples of Holding Costs/ Order Costs/ Costs of Inventory over Time.
− Examples of Procedure to place an order for new stock – how/who decided order quantity, when / EOQ software / decision making process
− Discuss if the Two Bin system will be appropriate to your company.
− Teams for IM: Purchasing Manager / Stock Manager – people involved
− Discuss lead times for specific products and how company can accommodate for this.
− Discuss cost of inventories particular to your company

Topic 4
QUALITY MANAGEMENT – CHAPTER 17:

For QM, content can include a mix of the below:
− Quality Management theory: Define Quality, Dimensions of Quality with examples, Show how quality is important (revenue & cost effects); Tools of Quality Management at your company and charts eg. Flow charts, Fishbone, Scatter etc
− Quality Characteristics (Functional, Appearance, Reliability, Durability, Recovery, Contact etc) – can apply with a Table with example from company.
− Total Quality Management: Theory to shows what is the TQM Concept, Definitions; Discuss chart of Inspection > QC > QA > TQM, Some types of events for Quality Control at Company like Testing, Specification, Control Charts software used, any processes to improve Quality, Quality meetings that occurred etc.
− GAP Theory of Quality with diagrams of Gaps in Quality and give examples at company selected
− Quality Costs PAF Model (Preventions, Appraisal & Failure Model) – 4 types of quality costs. Apply with examples of costs from company.
− Biefly, Six Sigma Concept: Discuss if Six Sigma is implemented at your company and shows the DMAIC Methodology at your company.
− Sandcone Model of Improvement (Cost / Flex / Speed / Dep / Quality )
− Other examples of application on MM can include examples of:
− You can give example of Quality Awards won by your organisation
− Highlight the required certifications the company had to fulfil for authorities.
− Explain specific methods to lower the costs of quality
− Discuss any training and other events employee go over during / after induction
− Show what software is used to implement and improve quality.
− Some example of benchmarking or standardisation exercises within the company.
− Any failures of quality within the company or customer recalls etc.

Review three factors in the decision-making process that may influence the interpretation and understanding of information in an organizational context. Explain these factors and evaluate how they can shape the outcome of the decision-making process.

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Decision making for international business

This assignment requires you to:

Review three factors in the decision-making process that may influence the interpretation and understanding of information in an organizational context. Explain these factors and evaluate how they can shape the outcome of the decision-making process. Support your discussion by using a combination of real business world, and if appropriate other organizational, examples.

 

Identify and describe your business’s goals, vision and mission statements. Identify three values to guide your business. Based on your values and on the “big picture, develop the vision statement for your business. Based on your values and vision statement, create your mission statement.

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Assignment #4: VE Values, Vision, Mission

Assignment: To identify and describe your business’s goals, vision and mission statements.

Background:

A business’s values, vision and mission statements serve as the guiding forces to the development and implementation of a successful venture.
A business must first identify its values, the things most important to it in order to shape the vision and mission statements.

Step One:
Read the research material provided in the Content section of Week 3.

Step Two:
Identify three values to guide your business. Write them down in the space below:

  • Value #1:
  • Value #2:
  • Value #3:

Step Three:

Based on your values and on the “big picture, develop the vision statement for your business. Write it down in the space below:

Step Four:
Based on your values and vision statement, create your mission statement: in the space below. How will you accomplish your vision? How will you make your vision a reality?

Review the reading from our text and state how Kotter’s last four steps were applied in the story, and then reflect on an organizational change effort that you are familiar with from the past using Kotter’s last four steps to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of the change effort.

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2-2 Journal: Kotter’s Steps 5 Through 8

Instructions
In our text Our Iceberg Is Melting, Kotter provides a story-based scenario of a situation needing a change intervention.

Review the reading from our text and state how Kotter’s last four steps (5 through 8) were applied in the story (two paragraphs), and then reflect on an organizational change effort that you are familiar with from the past (you can use the same organizational change effort you used for Module One) using Kotter’s last four steps (5 through 8) to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of the change effort.

Make sure to include what was done well, what was done poorly, and what was lacking in the change effort (two paragraphs, for a total of four paragraphs).

What was learned, i.e., key findings and/or “lessons learned” from the immersion in the professional sphere. How did your notion of a global mindset/cultural quotient in the professional sphere evolve with the immersion.

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Personal and Professional Global Mindset/Cultural Quiotient Statements

Write a paper (3 pages double spaced, 3/4th of a page approximately per sub-question below) reflecting on the international immersion experience. Went to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in Israel.

Part 1 – Professional

a) what was learned, i.e., key findings and/or “lessons learned” from the immersion in the professional sphere,

b) how did your notion of a global mindset/cultural quotient in the professional sphere evolve with the immersion.

Part 2 – Personal

a) what was learned, i.e., key findings and/or “lessons learned” from the immersion in the personal sphere,

b) how did your notion of a global mindset/cultural quotient in the personal sphere evolve with the immersion.

Review and critically evaluate marketing, branding and media communication theories, concepts, frameworks and principles underpinning sports marketing practice. Critically appraise different media channels, applying research and analysis skills to target consumers of sports, businesses and relevant partners (sponsors) or brands.

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Marketing Communications plan

Introduction
The primary aim of this assessment task is to develop a Marketing Communications Plan for an organisation of your choice that will;
• Review and critically evaluate marketing, branding and media communication theories, concepts, frameworks and principles underpinning sports marketing practice;
• Critically appraise different media channels, applying research and analysis skills to target consumers of sports, businesses and relevant partners (sponsors) or brands;
• Evaluate the appropriateness of different media channels available to a sports marketer in complex business scenarios;
• Synthesise theory with practice to produce a targeted, quantifiable and measurable marketing communications plan to achieve organisation objectives;

Describe and illustrate basic understanding of economic concepts. Describe and discuss economic data tables and basic economic models and draw conclusions.

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Article Review – Economic Concepts and Models

1. Presentation should have content, introduction and references.

2. Describe and illustrate basic understanding of economic concepts.

3. Describe and discuss economic data tables and basic economic models and draw conclusions.

4. Assessment Brief:

Trampoline prices ‘to soar 50% on shipping costs’

The following is an extract from the BBC’s Business Webpage. It highlights the recent issues relating to high transport costs and port congestions.

[Accessed 27/01/2021]

This case highlights the issues caused by Brexit as well the long terms consequences for the shipping industry.

5. Assessment Details

You are required to prepare a presentation. The presentation task is to review the above article on the BBC webpage and to expand on the aspects of microeconomic theory which underpin the discussion. The following points should be focused upon in delivering your presentation.

– Explain the main argument(s) of the article using microeconomic concepts/terms

– Refer to theory and apply it to main the issues – you should choose to focus on two of the following

 Demand and Supply

 Market Structures

 Economic Profit and Business Organisation

 Costs and Production

 Elasticity

– Provide explanations of examples in the article

6. It is expected that the Reference List will contain between eight and ten sources.

7. the Reference List should include one refereed academic journal and three academic books.

8. This is presentation with voice over. I need a write a statement to be recorded(by me) on a separate page.

9, The presentation is to last 15 minutes and include a detailed statement, not only reading the guidelines of the points.

Examine the different definitions presented in the paper. If needed, include other clearer definitions you can find in other literature sources. Choose 3 sound definitions from your definition reviews and summarize each one as a short but comprehensive definition statement.

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Project Governance

The Assignment Task
As a future project manager, you need to understand what behavioral and practice rules of engagement you need when setting up your project’s governance framework. Establishing this understand is underpinned by knowing how your project is linked to some underlying strategy plans and how your framework of rules steers your and your team’s work behaviors and practices when conducting project management and execution work to deliver the underlying strategy linked business objectives. The given paper (titled “Project Governance and its role in enabling organisation strategy implementation: A systematic literature review”) helps you to establish first insights into project governance and is to be
referenced in your analysis and framing of your responses to the given inquiry question/s.

Relevant tasks to action:
1) Critically read the Musawir et al ‘s journal paper and summarize the key sections and underpinning highlights of the discussion.
2) The paper concluded that there are no one consistent definition of project governance. Be guided by the following critical thinking driven steps to generalize a common project governance definition from 4 selected ones, including the workshop’s definition.

  • i. Examine the different definitions presented in the paper. If needed, include other clearer definitions you can find in other literature sources.
    ii. Choose 3 sound definitions from your definition reviews and summarize each one as a short but comprehensive definition statement.
    iii. Abstract from the appropriate workshop study notes about project governance, a summarised definition statement as discussed in class.
    iv. Generalize from these 4 varying definitions–statements a concise and comprehensive definition from your selection of varying definitions. The critical thinking and writing work involve:
  • a. Identifying the key concept (as keywords) that underpin each definition–statement.
    b. Summarizing the key context (meaning) of each concept identified.
    c. Construct a table as follows, to compare and contrast how well each of the 4 definition addresses the project governance concepts you identified.
    d. Discuss your comparison findings and conclude a generalized definition based on this analysis.

3) Now that you have established your own generalized definition of project governance based on literature evidence, critique the strengths and weaknesses of this general definition, and what can you do, as future resolutions, to mitigate the identified weaknesses.

4) Applying your generalized definition of project governance and based on what the paper has identified as roles, explain how project governance frameworks of behaviour and practice steering rules support the implementation of organisation strategies. In your answer, you need to define what are the key data integration elements when strategy plans decomposed into project plans.

Hint: the data elements of strategy plans that are passed to project plans are the data notions of (a) strategic objectives and (b) the triple constraints’ targeted performance measures.

Critically analyse the goals, processes and impacts of human resource development (HRD) from a range of stakeholder perspectives.Analyse the ethical implications of the HRD function in the workplace.

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Human Resource Development

Assignment overview
You are required to write an academic essay addressing the essay question regarding employer interests and challenges when engaging with VET. This assignment supports Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3.

1. Critically analyse the goals, processes and impacts of human resource development (HRD) from a range of stakeholder perspectives
2. Analyse the ethical implications of the HRD function in the workplace
3. Communicate ideas in written and visual formats.

Assignment details
The prompts that you will address in this essay are:
What aspects of current government policies and incentives influence the decision of employers to use the VET System as their training strategy?

What are the critical functions of management in facilitating an organisation’s adherence and commitment to sustainable strategic development?

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Applied Management Project

Research Question:

What are the critical functions of management in facilitating an organisation’s adherence and commitment to sustainable strategic development?