Your task is to identify and analyse the business’s global logistics, supply chain channels and sustainability throughout the value chain
ASSESSMENT TASK 2: DESCRIPTION
Under the broad umbrella of “Value Chain Management” this individual assignment will be based around a multi-national company involved in selling to customers globally.
Your task is to identify and analyse the business’s global logistics, supply chain channels and sustainability throughout the value chain all the way to the end user - the customer. You are expected to identify the associated linkages back to the theory you are studying in LB5230- Managing Strategic Resources and Operations.
The assignment will broadly cover the material you have studied from session six onwards (Part II of your text book) as well as, discussions, concepts and Journal articles or other material covered in quizzes, or as part of your individual readings. In particular, your answer to assignment 2 will encompass the following broad themes:
• Overview of the business/company selected
• Supply chain/logistics management from the source to the customer
• Linkage between the company activities and LB5230 theories
• Sustainability throughout the value chain
Hint
Management "Supply chain management is the management of the flow of goods & services, and includes all the processes which transforms raw materials into final products. It represents an effort by suppliers to develop and implement supply chains that are as efficient and economical as possible and also involves the active streamlining of a business's supply-side activities to maximize cus...
"Supply chain management is the management of the flow of goods & services, and includes all the processes which transforms raw materials into final products. It represents an effort by suppliers to develop and implement supply chains that are as efficient and economical as possible and also involves the active streamlining of a business's supply-side activities to maximize customer value and also gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Supply chains also cover everything from production to product development to the information systems needed to direct these undertakings.
VCA or value chain analysis is a process where a firm identifies its primary and support activities which adds value to its final product and then analyses those activities to increase differentiation or reduce costs i.e. it's basically a strategy tool used to analyze internal firm activities and represents the internal activities a firm engages in when transforming inputs into outputs. The goal is to recognize, which activities are the most valuable to the firm and which ones could be improved to provide competitive advantage."