ASSESSMENT TASK: Supply Chain & Value Chain Management
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate essential knowledge necessary for a career in business related professions
- Apply critical thinking to address issues in business
- Convey information clearly and fluently, in high quality written form appropriate for their audiences
- Describe the strategic tangible assets of a firm, the value chain, and explain how to harmonise the value chain to achieve strategic outcomes
- Explain the fundamentals of operations management and the seamless integration between inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics and the customer
- Describe the strategic tangible assets of a firm, the value chain, and explain how to harmonise the value chain to achieve
ASSESSMENT TASK DESCRIPTION -
Under the broad umbrella of "Supply Chain Management" this individual assignment will be based around a high end international Tourism Company (Lake Argyle - Jewel of the Kimberley) involved in online 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.
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