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SCM101 Introduction to Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Assignment Description

The impact of technology and globalization is rapidly changing the supply chain sector. Many innovations have been created in supply chain management to create more efficiency and effectiveness in the flow of goods, and shifting consumer demands are changing the supply chain industry as well. What starts out as a trend in supply chain logistics soon turns into a revolutionary concept that changes the game of supply chain management. This activity provides the opportunity to examine current trends in supply chain logistics.

Assignment Instructions-

1. Watch videos on digitalization and the impacts of technology on the Supply Chain:

o Deloitte: Digital Supply Networks: The digital transformation of supply chains (Time 3:10)
o "Challenges with traditional SCM towards Digitization" "Digital Supply Chains (Time 4:21)

PART I
2. What is your response to the points made in these videos? Do you agree or disagree? Provide reasons. Have you experienced the changes described in these videos? Explain your answer.
3. Read through the following websites and articles
• Top 10 Future Trends in Supply Chain and Logistic (article: 10 topics to select from)
• 10 Supply Chain Trends for the Next 10 Years (article: 10 topics to select from)
• Top 11 Supply Chain Trends You Need to Know in 2020 (article: 11 topics to select from)
• Multichannel VS Omnichannel Customer Experience | What's The Difference? (video: one topic)
• Three trends driving final mile delivery (article: select one of the topics below)
o Customer Demands Evolving
o The COVID Effect
o The Green Mile
• What Are Omnichannel Customers and Why Walmart Thinks They Are The Future (video) - one topic
• Why U.S.-China Supply Chains Are Stronger Than the Trade War (article one topic)
• Can We Make Our Global Supply Chains More Resilient? (article in Teams)
• What are the trends of employment in Supply Chain Management? (no article or video, student to source information (one topic)
Amazon Supply Chain & Logistics Secrets (article one topic)

4. Choose one of the trends and ask your instructor if you can use it as your topic. Your instructor will try to ensure that you are the only student with this trend.

It would be interesting for each student to have a trend that is different from the others so that the class can get a broad view of current trends and their impact.
5. Identify a company that is currently impacted by this trend or has implemented the trend into their business operations. Explain how they are impacted or how the trend is used in their business. If your topic already has a company identified (i.e. Amazon or Walmart), find another company to reference for
this question.

6. Answer the following questions:
• Why did you choose this trend?
• Do you like the idea of this trend? Why or Why not?
• Do you foresee this trend continuing and leaving an impact on supply chain logistics?
• What do you think some of the effects will be (or have been) from this emerging trend?

Explain your answers. Provide reasons and explanations where necessary.

7. Submit your Assignment using Microsoft Word to the Assignment Submission folder in Brightspace with the following formatted structure for items 2,3,4, 5, 6:
Double space using 11pt or 12pt Times New Roman or Calibri font style Include a Title Page
Include in-text citations, if applicable Include references
If you are quoting directly from another source be sure to put the quote "in -between" quotation marks The assignment should be 3 - 5 pages long, excluding the Reference page

8. Present your findings to the class with a brief summary. Use PowerPoint to present your findings keeping it to 1 - 2 slides. Remember this is a "brief summary" no more than 5mins to present.

(clarity, accuracy, elicit interest by soliciting discussion with your classmates either by posing a question to them, asking their opinion, or any other approach to engage your classmates)

You will submit your presentation with your response to item #9 after the class presentations.

PART II
9. After hearing all the groups and their chosen trends which one do you think is most interesting? Explain your answer in a brief, additional submission.

• Explain your answer in a brief to be included with your PowerPoint (presentation) submission.
• A separate submission will be due for this part in the class following the presentations.
• Add your response to a new slide at the end of your presentation.
• Use 14-point font and keep it to one slide. Title the slide "Classmates Presentation Interest".

Attachment:- Supply Chain Management.rar