You will be able to develop your understandings of operations, logistics and SCM in organisations and how these contribute to organisational success
Assessment Brief
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Academic year and term: |
2018/19 – Semester One, |
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Module title: |
Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
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Learning outcomes assessed within this piece of work as agreed at the programme level meeting |
On successful completion of this module students will be able to Knowledge outcome – You will be able to develop your understandings of operations, logistics and SCM in organisations and how these contribute to organisational success
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Type of assessment: |
1) Formative assessment: Essay plan to be emailed to seminar tutors 2) Summative assessment: Written assignment, 2500-Word Essay, +/- 10%, to be submitted on Turnitin |
Instructions for assessment
Your summative assessment for this module takes the form of an essay in 2500 words, +/- 10%. This is an individual assignment. You must choose an organisation or business which is either an automotive company (manufacturing industry) or a hospital (service sector). If you decide to consider a hospital for your essay, you can choose any hospital OTHER THAN Arnold Palmer Hospital (APH). You can use APH for benchmarking purpose or as a successful example. It is the student’s free choice which hospital or automotive company they choose. However, the hospital must be based in the UK, the automotive company needs to have a presence in the UK i.e. they are available in the UK. The You need to produce an essay elaborating on the key operation, logistics and supply chain management issues faced by the operations and supply chain manager(s) in this particular organisation / business.
You can collect data from resources like websites, books, journal articles and grey reports. Some case studies are available to help you collect required data. It makes sense to select a company where you work, have worked or know people who work there.
By focusing on the operational and supply chain issues, you should seek to identify and clarify how the operation functions and supports the market that it serves. What service delivery system (s) or manufacturing process (es) does it use? What infrastructure does it use to manage these delivery systems? And how, together, do these support the market (s) that it serves? A critical, detailed and relevant analysis should be made of the various components.
Based on your analysis, you are expected to make recommendations about how the business can improve its performance. Consider triple bottom line - described as the incorporation of economic, environmental and social factors as the three dimensions of sustainability in business practice - in your analysis.
As it might be impossible to analyse all the areas of operations, logistics and supply chain management, you
should also decide which area (s) to cover in your discussion. Therefore, choose two of the following areas in managing operations, logistics and supply chain.
- New product/ service development and process
- Managing quality
- Location and Layout
- Managing people in operation and supply chains
- Logistics mix: Channels, networks, transportation, managing inventory and capacity
- Managing business relationships in supply chains
- JIT, Lean and Agility
