Reference no: EM132328069
Topic: the lollipop wars
Supply Chain structures
What are you organisation goals and main products/services? Where does your main product fit in terms of strategic value?
The assessment has been designed to analysis your critical analysis of main themes and topics with a degree of creativity and self-guidance. Namely, you are able to describe what your organisation looks like and its main goals, and use this as a guidance for the rest of the assessment, rather than relying on the information in a real life case study. In other words, you have to be creative and essentially ‘create’ a business for the purposes of this assessment. I’m happy if it is modelled off a real-life example, but think outside the box.
Questions to consider before you attempt to undertake the analysis framework include (in order of the 3 case studies):
1. Construction company: do you have in-house employees (e.g. builders), or are these outsourced? Both of these have implications for other sourcing questions (e.g. does your organisation provide materials or are you solely a contracting firm? If so, how can you implement best practise into your outsourced workforce?)
2. Are your end-products (i.e. chocolates) mass produced or are they speciality products, thus impact the degree of quality you need in your supplied cocoa?
3. Similarly to the above point, is the sugar required for your candy a specific quality that you can currently only get locally?
These questions have been provided as guidance, as I’ve iterated you have a large degree of creativity given to you for this assessment. I understand this may push some people outside of their comfort zone, but the purposes is for you to start thinking about the main points of procurement within a relatively novel context.
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Step 1 - Situation Analysis
(Journals and Industry Reports)
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Supply Chain structures
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What are you organisation goals and main products/services? Where does your main product fit in terms of strategic value?
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What does the physical flow of goods or services look like (e.g. supply chain nodes)
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The business context
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Competitor analysis: who are the main (real-life) 'players' in your market?
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What are your organisational competencies?
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Step 2 - Identification of main issues and problems
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Categorise
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Prioritise
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Step 3 - Generation and evaluation of alternative solutions
(Note: Requires strong procurement perspective and strongly anchored in academic literature)
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Brainstorm ideas(strongly embedded in academic literature)
Risk assessment of alternative solutions
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Step 4 - Recommend solution and justification
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Description(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Justification(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Step 5 - Implementation (succinct to the point including Gantt Chart)
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Resources
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Timing
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Step 1 - Situation Analysis
(Journals and Industry Reports)
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Supply Chain structures
(the industry)
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Physical Flow of Goods
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Information management
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Supply Chainperformance
(industry perspective)
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Overall performance of the supply chain - customer service & cost
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The business context
(industry NSW)
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Competitor analysis
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External business environment
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Step 2 - Identification of main issues and problems
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Categorise
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Prioritise
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Step 3 - Generation and evaluation of alternative solutions
(Note: Requires strong procurement perspective and strongly anchored in academic literature)
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Brainstorm ideas(strongly embedded in academic literature)
Risk assessment of alternative solutions
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Step 4 - Recommend solution and justification
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Description(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Justification(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Step 5 - Implementation (succinct to the point including Gantt Chart)
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Resources
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Timing
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Assessment Case Study - Brief
Overview
You are the procurement manager of a NSW based specialist chocolate company, whose product focus in the quality of imported Cocoa from overseas locations, primarily West Africa. In addition to the emphasis on quality, the organisation prides itself on its socially responsive sourcing practises.
It has come to the attention of the senior executive of the firms-due to increased social awareness and pressure-that there are a number of vulnerabilities in your current supply chain concerning the exploitation of workers and the lack of sustainable practises utilised by your suppliers.
The executive have requested you analyse the major labour and sustainability issues that faced the procurement of cocoa within your organisation, and outline the best practises towards ensuring your organisation procurement goals aligned with both the UN Global Compacts and Australian procurement standards.
In addition to your own research, the links and documents on Moodle can help as a starting point.
Table 1 - The case analysis framework
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Step 1 - Situation Analysis
(Journals and Industry Reports)
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Supply Chain structures
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What are you organisation goals and main products/services? Where does your main product fit in terms of strategic value?
|
|
What does the physical flow of goods or services look like (e.g. supply chain nodes)
|
|
The business context
|
Competitor analysis: who are the main (real-life) 'players' in your market?
|
|
What are your organisational competencies?
|
|
Step 2 - Identification of main issues and problems
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Categorise
|
|
Prioritise
|
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Step 3 - Generation and evaluation of alternative solutions
(Note: Requires strong procurement perspective and strongly anchored in academic literature)
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Brainstorm ideas(strongly embedded in academic literature)
Risk assessment of alternative solutions
|
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Step 4 - Recommend solution and justification
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Description(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Justification(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Step 5 - Implementation (succinct to the point including Gantt Chart)
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Resources
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Timing
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Step 1 - Situation Analysis
(Journals and Industry Reports)
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Supply Chain structures
(the industry)
|
Physical Flow of Goods
|
|
Information management
|
|
Supply Chainperformance
(industry perspective)
|
Overall performance of the supply chain - customer service & cost
|
|
The business context
(industry NSW)
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Competitor analysis
|
|
External business environment
|
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Step 2 - Identification of main issues and problems
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Categorise
|
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Prioritise
|
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Step 3 - Generation and evaluation of alternative solutions
(Note: Requires strong procurement perspective and strongly anchored in academic literature)
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Brainstorm ideas(strongly embedded in academic literature)
Risk assessment of alternative solutions
|
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Step 4 - Recommend solution and justification
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Description(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Justification(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Step 5 - Implementation (succinct to the point including Gantt Chart)
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Resources
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Timing
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Step 1 - Situation Analysis
(Journals and Industry Reports)
|
Supply Chain structures
(the industry)
|
Physical Flow of Goods
|
|
Information management
|
|
Supply Chainperformance
(industry perspective)
|
Overall performance of the supply chain - customer service & cost
|
|
The business context
(industry NSW)
|
Competitor analysis
|
|
External business environment
|
|
Step 2 - Identification of main issues and problems
|
Categorise
|
|
Prioritise
|
|
Step 3 - Generation and evaluation of alternative solutions
(Note: Requires strong procurement perspective and strongly anchored in academic literature)
|
Brainstorm ideas(strongly embedded in academic literature)
Risk assessment of alternative solutions
|
|
Step 4 - Recommend solution and justification
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Description(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Justification(strongly embedded in academic literature)
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Step 5 - Implementation (succinct to the point including Gantt Chart)
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Resources
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Timing
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Source: (Taylor, 1997)
Report Style and Format
The case analysis report should be in the format of a business report as you would submit to the CEO or management of any business, in a professional style.
The report must contain:
Title Page
Executive Summary
Introduction
Main Body - see Framework in Table 1 for main body structure
Conclusion
List of References
Appendices as required