Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Assignment Task

Description

Purpose

This task allows you to demonstrate achievement towards the unit learning outcomes ULO1, ULO2 and ULO3 and graduate learning outcomes GLO1, GLO3, GLO4 and GLO5. Completing this task will help build researching skills that are necessary to critically evaluate the design and delivery of operations and logistics in a business organization with a view to ensuring ethical and sustainable sourcing and operational practices.

Context/Scenario

For this task, you should assume that you are a supply chain professional who has been engaged by an Australian business organization to undertake research examining specific aspects of their operations and supply chain management practices with regards to ensuring sustainability and provide your recommendations.

Specific Requirements

For this assignment, you are to select any ASX-listed business organization and write an in-depth research report on their operations and supply chain practices with particular emphasis on how well they have (or haven’t) faced the various global challenges (pandemic, geopolitical conflicts etc.) and what they have possibly learnt that could enable them to be better prepared to face further massively disruptive events in future.

focus on the following three key aspects:

1. Provide a brief descriptive profile of your chosen business organization (e.g., nature of the business, level of competition it faces, target customers, recent financial performance etc.)

2. Identify some of the major suppliers/sources of supply for your chosen business organization and provide a descriptive analysis of the company’s current operational and supply chain practices. ‘Current’ here can mean either before or during the COVID-19 pandemic or present/post-pandemic. In writing your descriptive analysis, it is very important that you clearly articulate your understanding of at least one but not more than two aspects of OM/SCM theory as covered in the weekly classes up to Week 7. You can pick and choose one or two aspects of theory that best fits the context of your chosen business.

3. To what extent do you think are the business organization’s operations management and supply chain practices sustainable? What evidence can you find through your online research about the business organization’s ongoing relationship with its key suppliers? In your opinion, how resilient are the operations and supply chain practices of your chosen business organization to any future disruptive events? Based on your research findings on the company’s supply chain practices, provide some recommendations to maintain/improve the sustainability of their sourcing policies and resilience to future disruptions going forward.

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