Activity - identify opportunities for improvement

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Activity: Identify opportunities for improvement

This activity requires you to identify improvement needs and opportunities in supply chains and operational and service systems.

For this activity, you are required to review current systems and processes within the company to develop options for continuous improvement, as well as report back to the management team on your review.

To do this, you will need to thoroughly review the case study information provided above, as well as to conduct research as instructed. The outcome of this assessment task will be a briefing report that you will also present to the management team.

As indicated previously, as the Manager of the organisation, you have been tasked by the management team to review current systems and processes and to develop continuous improvement options to develop creative ways for the business to improve both internally and in its external environment.

Your report will need to be 1200-1500 words in length and be in the format of the ‘Template 1'
provided.

To complete the report, you must:

• Analyse performance reports and variance from organisational plans within the workplace based on the information given in the case study.

o Determine whether current systems used by the organisation needs improvement.
o If yes, what are the areas of improvement in the current systems?
• Identify relevant team members affected by the change to the existing or current systems.

• Collect data and analyse areas for improvement in supply chains and operational and service systems based on the information given in the case study.

• Conduct a gap analysis of supply chains and operational and service systems based on the information given in the case study and identify improvement needs and opportunities.

• For inventory management and distribution tracking, undertake a detailed analysis of supply chains and operational, product and service delivery systems and give recommendation on the inventory management system and distribution tracking system that would best suit the company given in the case study. State reasons as well.

• Conduct research; identify and analyse changing trends and opportunities relevant to the inventory management and distribution tracking system.

• Establish strategies to monitor and evaluate performance and sustainability systems and processes related to inventory management and distribution tracking. Include the following details:

o Key Result Areas (KRAs)
o Key performance indicators (KPIs)
o Performance review process
The key elements that the report must include:

• Two (2) areas of improvement.

• Relevant team members affected by the change to the existing or current systems

• Data and information supporting areas for improvement in supply chains and operational and service systems

• Improvement needs and opportunities based on the gap analysis conducted.

• Recommendation on the inventory management system and distribution tracking system based on the analysis of supply chains and operational, product and service delivery systems that would best suit the company. State reasons as well.

• Changing trends and opportunities relevant to the inventory management and distribution tracking system

• Strategies to monitor and evaluate performance and sustainability systems and processes related to inventory management and distribution tracking

Template 1: Report:

You must use the attached report template to complete this activity:

Report on current processes and systems A cover sheet of the unit of competency Version control information
An introduction to the project Table of contents
The main body of the report covering the following topics:

• Two (2) areas of improvement.

• Data and information supporting areas for improvement in supply chains and operational and service systems

• Improvement needs and opportunities based on the gap analysis conducted.

• Changing trends and opportunities relevant to the inventory management and distribution tracking

• Strategies to monitor and evaluate performance and sustainability systems and processes related to inventory management and distribution tracking

Reference no: EM133046448

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