MBA Client 5: Logistic & Supply Chain Management Assignment

ASSIGNMENT
Due Date: September 25, 2011
By 12.00 midnight (Singapore & Malaysia time)
The current business environment is giving opportunities to progressive Logistics and
Supply Chain Managers to utilize it for greater profitability (such as the earth quake and
tsunami in Japan). For this to happen, the supply chain manager must focus his attention
on supply lead time management and the inventory in the supply chain. Critically
evaluate the supply lead time and supply chain Inventory and how you can use emerging
supply chain technologies to integrate lead time and inventory within a supply chain
process you are familiar with and increase the profitability of the supply chain.

Please refer to module handbook page 10.

The word requirement is 3000.

For assignment format,please do the same as assignment above ( executive summary,table content,introduction and so on ).

Lecturer Recommendation:

There is really no standard for each of the items. I would suggest the following

Executive Summary 500 words (as it is a very important part of the assignment)

Introduction - say 300 words

Body has many parts such data , analysis evaluation critique and findings say 2000 words

Conclusion 200 - 300 words

Recommendations may be another 200 - 300 words

But the most important thing is your referencing. What you put in the list of references must be identified in the body of your paper, tell number of reference, the page of them item etc) but you can inlcued the contents in the appendix.

The question must be analysed to find out what is required in the naswer. Generally participants are descriptive and out of point

The overall length should not exceed 3500 words