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Assessment - Conceptualization, modelling and analysis of supply chain digital twins

Part 1: As part of this assessment, students are required to complete the entire Introduction to Digital Twins course and provide their completion certificate as part of their submission. Attach your certificate of completion as an image file to first part of your report and summarize your key takeaways in 300 words.
Introduction to Digital Twins

Part 2: In the second part of this assessment, you are asked to use the learning obtained from the Digital Twins in Smart Supply Chain module and the Conceptualization of digital twins tutorial (activity 2) provided HERE to write an analytical report and address the following problem. Maximum word count is 1100 words.

Problem Statement: As part of their move to digitize their supply chain network, Coolies is considering implementing a digital twin. To gain greater insights on how to go about developing digital twins and the nature of the capital and technology required, the IT and Supply Chain teams collaboratively plan on implementing a digital twin for a small portion of the supply chain network as a pilot project. This pilot project will consist of an ice cream production plant from New Zealand (manufacturer), and a DC and selected retailers based in Victoria. Based on the insights gained from the pilot project, Coolies can determine how they want to go about the implementation of a digital twin for their entire supply chain network and the technologies they may require.

In this assessment, the focus will be on the DC processes and Steps 3-6 of the digital twin conceptualization framework. By Step 6, the identification of the appropriate smart devices and the manner in which digital measurements will be taken for each process level KPI (KPI-Ps) should be defined. A simple visualization of the DC processes are provided in the input data. The visualization represents how data flows from one DC process to the other.

The DC which receives the ice cream from factory is based in VIC and consists of 4 processes: Receiving and Storing, Picking, Packaging, and Distribution and Delivery.

In Activity 2, you learned how to carry out Steps 3-6 of digital twins conceptualization framework for the factory. A complete solutions for Factory and template forms for DC are provided in the input dataset provided here. Using the Factory solution tabs as benchmark (you do not need to do anything with Factory tabs just focus on DC tabs), students must focus on DC processes, perform the following tasks and complete the provided template forms:

1. Process Mapping - Develop a Turtle Diagram for each process that occurs in the DC (Step 3). Based on the Turtle Diagram, identify suitable process level (KPI-Ps) for the DC processes. Highlight the acceptance criteria and calculation method for each KPI-Ps (Step 4).

2. Describe any cyber risks associated with all identified digital KPI-SCs identified in Assessment 2 . Then map the KPI-Ps against the supply chain level (KPI-SCs) identified in your Assessment 2 to understand which processes contribute to the supply chain level goals (Step 5).

3. Using answer provided to above questions, create a comprehensive table that lists: what is measured for each DC process, how it is measured, the KPI-Ps for that process and their acceptance criteria, the associated supply chain KPIs (KPI-SCs) from your Assessment 2, the digital data source for KPI-Ps, and how the measurement is digitally taken (Step 6) and the cyber risk associated with each KPI-Ps? Are there any KPI-SCs you would change to ensure that the measurements taken at the process level add insight and value to the measurements taken at the supply chain level?

You must create and submit your report as a single MS word file (including screenshots from inputs of all performed analysis and visualization). You need to explain and justify your answers with relevant information, output table, and visualizations.

1- When answering the above questions, students should support their recommendations and insights by using relevant and appropriate sources of academic literature. The referencing style for this subject is APA7.

2- Students are required to submit their reports using only a single MS-Word file, which should contain their analysis, results, and discussion. No other format is acceptable.