First you need to analyse the global supply chain of the company through analysing both international and supply chain strategies, which will lead to examining the global supply chain in terms of 5 drivers: facilities, inventory, transportation, information and sourcing.
This should be followed by analysis of where this company (your coursework company) can extend their global supply chains to and how should they change their supply chain to meet the demands, needs and requirements of new location. To do this you need to analyse several locations by internationalisation theories, from which dunning eclectic paradigm and learning theories(Uppsala model,psychic distance) are considered to be the most important therefore compulsory but you need to choose one other from Venon’s product lifecycle, Porter’s diamond and network theories. Vernon’s product life cycle is not useful to all companies, especially this age of global business so please choose one of the other two.
Your report should end with a recommendation, which is a product of your analysis.
This coursework is mostly report style in general but particulars are in essay format, meaning the outer style with sections and references tables of content etc… is a report but within each section is an essay.
Follow Guidelines please :
Coursework 1 select a real life company and analyse their international supply chain networks. This requires students to evaluate real life in the light of theories presented to them. This will ensure that they will be aware of strengths and weaknesses of these theories and how real life can be explained by using multiple of these. Then they will be asked to use the theories to give a supply chain network design change decision based on the decision making tools that they have learned.
Please follow this list:
• Select any size company that should have international production abroad, preferably a multinational.
• Analyse their supply chain first through their cost vs efficiency trade-offs.
• Then look at 6 different components of global supply chains and select the right combinations to achieve your analysis of cost vs. efficiency trade-off.
• Finally show how these components are connected to each other through distribution networks. You should be able to draw your own distribution network
• You should end up with recommendation in general not more than 2-3
Introduction
Brief introduction to company and the essay, not more than 50 words.
Selecting International Strategy Select one of the four possible international strategies. Draw a diagram to locate them and possibly show how the company is moving from one to another.
Select a matching Global Supply Chain Strategy
Please match the international business strategy with a global supply chain strategy trade-off between cost and responsiveness.
Explain how this strategy can be applied through the elements of global supply chain
Please use the five elements of global supply chain: facilities, inventory, transportation, information sharing and procurement to explain how they can achieve the global supply chain strategy trade-off.
Facilities- Centralisation vs Decentralisation; Capacity; Manufacturing Methodology or Warehousing Technology Inventory- Cycle inventory, seasonal inventory and safety inventory
Transportation- Mode of transportation, Route and Network Selection, in house or outsource
Information Sharing- push vs pull, information integration, enabling technologies, forecasting and aggregate planning
Procurement- in house vs outsource, single vs multiple
Explain how these elements are integrated to each other
Please explain the global distribution network design of the company by integrating these five elements together.
Recommendation
Please explain how they can improve their global supply chain through either expanding or generating new locations.
Your report should end with a recommendation, which is a product of your analysis
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