Explain the supply chain planning and control process. Analyze initiatives to overcome poor coordination in retail supply chains. Evaluate the material flow model in a supply chain.

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Supply chain planning controls

  • Explain the supply chain planning and control process.
  • Analyze initiatives to overcome poor coordination in retail supply chains.
  • Evaluate the material flow model in a supply chain.

8.2 Action Required:

Read the research paper through the following link

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228438411…

8.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

What is supply chain planning controls?

 

What types of writing have you completed in your academic career? Provide 2 examples of assignments you’ve completed, including the topic, audience, purpose, and evaluation criteria.

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Module 1 Review

10 Points

Write 1 paragraph to explain the importance of business writing skills. Include examples from the Business Writing: An Essential Workplace Skill lecture and the HBR Guide Introduction. (100-150 words)

List and explain 3 differences between academic and business writing explained in the Adapting to a New Style of Writing lecture. (2-3 sentences each)

Explain how you’ve applied 2 Business Writing Tips from Hallmark in your business communication (as a student, employee, or organization member). (2-3 sentences each)

What types of writing have you completed in your academic career? Provide 2 examples of assignments you’ve completed, including the topic, audience, purpose, and evaluation criteria. (75-100 words)

List 2 questions you have about business writing.

Determine the organization’s competitive difference in the marketplace. Are they focused on cost, quality, flexibility, speed, innovation, and/or service? Explain how.

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Assignment 2

About the Assignment
In this course, you learned how a business chooses a positioning strategy in the marketplace and focuses on these areas by evaluating management’s use of production types, creating effective productivity, and analyzing the competitiveness of production. Now you will choose a retail organization and propose a positioning marketing strategy that analyzes the organizational management decisions related to any competitiveness of cost, quality, flexibility, speed, innovation, and/or service.

Prompt
Choose an organization that focuses on one of these areas in the market: competitiveness of cost, quality, flexibility, speed, innovation, and/or service. An example would be choosing ALDI or LIDL. Their cost marketing positioning strategy is providing customers with international goods for a lower price and, in turn, saving business fees by not providing bagging products for free. (This is just an example, Do not use this example for your project.

Use the following steps below to create an effective marketing positioning strategy in 1,000-1,200 words for your chosen organization.

• Determine the organization’s competitive difference in the marketplace. Are they focused on cost, quality, flexibility, speed, innovation, and/or service? Explain how.
• Research and determine the company’s current market position in this arena.
• Analyze the company’s product position in the marketplace and explain how their strategy influences competitors.
• Develop a revised positioning strategy for the organization based on determined competitiveness.

Formatting and Sources
You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least three credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name). If you’re unsure about how to use APA format to cite your sources, please see the following lessons:

Related Lessons
• Operations Management: Definition & Fundamentals
Bibliography:
Operations Management: Definition & Fundamentals. (2017, May 16). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/operations-management-definition-fundamentals.html.

In-text citation:
(Operations Management: Definition & Fundamentals, 2017)

• What is a Business Model? – Definition & Relationship to Operations
APA
Bibliography:
What is a Business Model? – Definition & Relationship to Operations. (2017, March 26). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-business-model-definition-relationship-to-operations.html.

In-text citation:
(What is a Business Model? – Definition & Relationship to Operations, 2017)

• Positioning Strategy: Definition & Examples
APA
Bibliography:
Positioning Strategy: Definition & Examples. (2015, April 21). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/positioning-strategy-definition-examples.html.

In-text citation:
(Positioning Strategy: Definition & Examples, 2015)

• Production, Productivity & Competitiveness
APA
Bibliography:
Production, Productivity & Competitiveness. (2015, June 18). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/production-productivity-competitiveness.html.

In-text citation:
(Production, Productivity & Competitiveness, 2015)

Explain why the Lean Organizational Structure is beneficial for businesses aiming to increase their value.

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Assignment 1

Operations management, as you learned in the course, focuses on implementing management strategies for an organization to achieve their goal(s) effectively and efficiently. Whether a business is seeking improved quality control, more efficient processes, or detailed analysis of employee performance, operations management is the central factor to achieving these successes. In an 800 – 1200-word essay, answer the prompt below using concepts you learned from the course to support your arguments. You may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must use at least three credible, outside sources and cite them using APA format.

Essay Prompts
1. Explain why the Lean Organizational Structure is beneficial for businesses aiming to increase their value.

Related Lessons
• Lean Organizational Structure

APA Citation
Lean Organizational Structure. (2014, January 23). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/lean-organizational-structure.html.
In-text citation:
(Lean Organizational Structure, 2014)
• The 5S Approach to Waste Elimination for Lean Businesses

APA Citation
The 5S Approach to Waste Elimination for Lean Businesses. (2017, March 31). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-5s-approach-to-waste-elimination-for-lean-businesses.html.
In-text Citation
(The 5S Approach to Waste Elimination for Lean Businesses, 2017)

Develop the Advocate for Change domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.

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Professional Development Matrix

Professional Development Journal

Course 1. First Course (required)

Learning is frequently characterized as a relatively long-lasting change in behavior as a result of experience. When you think about learning, it’s tempting to limit yourself to formal schooling that occurs during infancy and early adulthood, yet learning is a continuous process that occurs throughout life. Learning is important for increasing our income and status, for gaining access to new opportunities, for boosting our confidence, for developing and assisting our growth curve, for achieving our goals, for making us happy, and for personal, professional, and leadership development. People should never stop learning. We will never stop learning.

I believe that Knowledge and Scholarly will help me develop my potential in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation skills. As of now, there is no tough or easy component of this course for me since I understand that obtaining new knowledge is challenging, but with constant practice, it will become easy, and the things that I need to develop are my research and analytic abilities.

Three (3) subdomains of Knowledge and Scholarly that I would like to develop are critical thinking, ontological humility, and creativity and innovation. My objectives in this course are to become knowledgeable and proficient in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation. To achieve my objectives, I will use my free time to read books, solve one problem every day, and keep an intellectual journal. One strategy for staying motivated in attaining my objectives is to make a record of my observations of wasted time so that I can notice and realize what I am doing. I know that the more difficulties I overcome, the easier they will get, allowing me to attain my goal. Finally, maintaining an intellectual journal will help me keep track of how much I have improved in my thinking and will also help me know what to focus on.

My current network, which I believe will help me achieve my goals, consists of my mentor, friends, and family, because every time they push me and tell me that I can do this and that, I feel empowered. And the barriers are folks who do not trust me or my DBA process. These are the folks I will ignore while still respecting them.

My specialization in this program will have a significant impact on my success today and tomorrow. Because I anticipate that after completing this course, I will be skilled and equipped to meet the requirements of a DBA graduate. This specialization will serve as a stepping stone for my future, and my future is dependent on what I accomplish now.

It is human nature to anticipate, whether great or not, but employers’ expectations of me as a DBA graduate will be better than yesterday. Everything may change in a single day, including every employer’s expectation of DBA graduates. Employers sometimes look at how the DBA graduate is talented and competent, but most of the time they look at the DBA graduate’s character. A man with the right character can learn anything. I will not be worried about what the employers expect of me; instead, I will ready now so that I will be confident tomorrow.

As of today, I have done nothing to accomplish these goals but from today, I will begin to accomplish them based on my target’s strategies. My objectives in this course are to become knowledgeable and proficient in critical thinking, ontological humility, creativity, and innovation. To achieve my objectives, I will use my free time to read books, solve one problem every day, and keep an intellectual journal. One strategy for staying motivated in attaining my objectives is to make a record of my observations of wasted time so that I can notice and realize what I am doing. I know that the more difficulties I overcome, the easier they will get, allowing me to attain my goal. Finally, maintaining an intellectual journal will help me keep track of how much I have improved in my thinking and will also help me know what to focus on.

Course 2. Leadership (recommended)

Course 3. HR (recommended)

Course 4. Strategy (recommended)

In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Advocate for Change. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.

Course 5. Teaching (required)

In this course, you will develop the Advocate for Change domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.

Specialization 1 (recommended)

In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Advocate for Change goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.

Specialization 2 (recommended)

In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.

Specialization 3 (required)

In this course, you will develop the Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.

Specialization 4 (recommended)

In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Personal Effectiveness and Professional Identity goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.

Specialization 5 (recommended)

In this course, you will start thinking about the next domain, Applied Research Competencies. Reflect on what this domain means to you and how it could impact your work.

Advanced Doctoral Course 1 (required)

In this course, you will develop the Applied Research Competencies domain. Read the materials provided in your course. Choose from the recommended competencies, or create ones of your own, that focus on areas you would like to develop. Then create goals that will help you progress toward the competencies.

Advanced Doctoral Course 2 (recommended)

In this course, you will reflect on how many of your Applied Research Competencies goals you have acted upon. You will describe the impact you’ve experienced on the goals you have acted upon. If you have not acted on your goals, you will make a plan to start working on them.

Advanced Doctoral Course 3 (recommended)

In this course, you will start reflecting on the overall process of developing and implementing your Professional Development Framework. Think about what you have learned during this process. Consider what parts of your framework you have been able to use successfully and what parts need some revision.

Advanced Doctoral Course 4 (required)

In your final course, you will review the complete developmental framework you have created. Think about the agency you feel you have in trying to change the structures in which you work to help you develop as a doctoral professional and whether the framework has helped you to gain more agency.

You will include your final reflection on your professional development in your capstone project under PART 2: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK.

 

Describe your concepts/points and facts associated with the topic. Provide some critical analysis that furthers the knowledge level of the reader.

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Ethical Professionalism- means what?

Identify references,such as related material from newspapers,magazines, internet.

Develop paper by:
1) Having an introduction-what is the paper about and what is it you want ti discuss/describe.
2) Describe your concepts/points and facts associated with the topic.
3) Provide some critical analysis that furthers the knowledge level of the reader.
4) Provide a conclusion summarizing your points and observations.
5) Incorporate references to at least 2 articles.
6) Prepare a power point slide for presentation.

Why do Manufacturing Companies focus on Lean Thinking? What is meant by the term overproduction? Why do you think this has been described as the biggest waste of all?

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THE BENEFITS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING what lean thinking offers the process Industries

Authors Name: Melton,T

Source: In 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design June 2005 83(6):662-673

Read out the research paper carefully and based on your understanding you should answer the following questions.

Questions:

  1. Why do Manufacturing Companies focus on Lean Thinking? (500 words)- (5Marks)
  2. What is meant by the term overproduction? Why do you think this has been described as the biggest waste of all? (500 words)- (5Marks)
  3. Assess the reasons for using lean thinking. What are the benefits of using lean thinking from Suppliers to end users? (500 words) -(5Marks)

 

Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight about large spectrum of managerial problems.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems.

Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight about large spectrum of managerial problems.

Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems.

Build an understanding of the kind of problems that is tackled using spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis.

8.2 Action Required:

Read the following chapter of your Textbook.

Chapter 8: Non-Linear Optimization

8.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

  • Explain the various types of constraints.
  • Describe the Portfolio Optimization Model.

 

Describe a business that you may own some day or that you currently own. Examine the best business organizational form for the business that you have described, including in your examination personal liability exposure, management, taxation, and ease of formation.

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Legal Underpinnings of Business Law

Imagine that you own each of the following businesses:

  • Tinker’s Home Security Service (sole proprietorship)
  • Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (general partnership)
  • Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service (LP)
  • Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, Inc. (corporation)
  • Tinker & Tailor’s Home Security Service, LLC (LLC)

The businesses are being sued for breach of contract. Create a matrix that lists each business, and compare and contrast your personal liability exposure as an owner as a result of the lawsuit.

For each business entity, analyze how you might limit your liability exposure as an owner.

Describe a business that you may own some day or that you currently own. (Even if you never plan to own a business, pretend as if you will do so for the purposes of this assignment.) Examine the best business organizational form for the business that you have described, including in your examination personal liability exposure, management, taxation, and ease of formation.

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and you must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

 

Discuss how the entrepreneur utilized his or her Global Mindset to capitalize on unexpected trends and opportunities to achieve personal, professional, or organizational objectives.

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Discussion Question

  • Share a link to a story about a successful business whose owner has a Global Mindset.
  • Provide a brief summary (3-4 sentences).
  • Discuss how the entrepreneur utilized his or her Global Mindset to capitalize on unexpected trends and opportunities to achieve personal, professional, or organizational objectives.
  • Explain ways that a Global Mindset can help you expand your business model and grow your business