Reference no: EM132306081

For this assignment you are required to review your organisation's supply chain (or that of one with which you are familiar) in light of environmental developments, strategic fit, and constraints, and make feasible recommendations to improve it.

Note that you are required to:

• Clearly indicate in your submission which organisation you have chosen. Your submission should take the format of a four-part report, and include an executive summary, a situation analysis, a section in which you consider and evaluate options, and a final section in which you offer recommendations.
• Show any supporting calculations and position mapping .
• If you use estimates as part of your analysis, you should state this, and explain their basis.

SECTION 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Write a one-page executive summary your review, describing briefly your findings, your recommendations, and the rationale behind your recommendations. Include the organisation's vision, mission and strategic objectives to put your recommendations in context.

SECTION 2: SITUATION ANALYSIS

Assess changes in the organisation's environment, and critically evaluate the implications of these changes for the organisation.

Evaluate the organisation's supply chain performance, using financial data. Benchmark it against industry norms. State your conclusion.

Map the organisation's product or service operations typology, and assess whether it is necessary, given any environmental changes noted in your situational analysis, and given the organisation's supply chain performance, to adjust the basis on which the organisation competes.

Assess the implications for the organisation's value proposition, and for its supply chain, should changes be needed.

Assess the capabilities and constraints of the supply chain, briefly considering each of the organisation's drivers of supply chain performance , as well as the key metrics associated with each.

Map three of your organisation's products or services on the demand uncertainty spectrum, and critically evaluate how parts of your supply chain could be tailored to improve responsiveness, as well as how other components could be tailored to concentrate on efficiency. Describe the implications for the supply chain and for the business of adjusting your supply chain in this way.

SECTION 3: OPTIONS

Generate options, for each supply chain performance driver, to improve the strategic fit between the organisation's competitive strategy and its supply chain strategy, including strategies to overcome constraints.

Use a decision tree to evaluate critically the options open to your organisation, local and offshore, and to take uncertainty into account.

Your evaluation should consider the life span of assets such as facilities and machinery; regional demand; infrastructure; labour, logistics, factor and other costs; taxes; the cultural implications of changes; quality of life issues; product quality; environmental responsibility; lead times; flexibility and responsiveness requirements; capacity optimisation; minimum order quantities; and any other operational dimensions relevant to your organisation. It should also identify risks associated with each option, and what will be required to mitigate them.

Show all workings and your decision tree.

SECTION 4: RECOMMENDATIONS

Set out your recommendations, with a brief explanation of how each one is expected to contribute to the triple bottom line.