Assignment

SSD (Solid State Drives) and NAND flash are types of memory devices used across many computing devices, from laptops and tablets to smart-phones. The growth of consumer electronic devices in recent years has put significant supply pressure on the availability of such memory. Read the article below for a recent view on the supply of such devices and use it to complete the assigned paper.

Article: SSD prices rise as NAND flash supply fails to keep pace with demand by Mark Coppock.

Assigned Paper

You are responsible for sourcing SSD and/or NAND memory for your company. After reading the article and any other supporting reference, write a 3 page document to your manager that covers the following:

(1) Summarize the expectations of availability of memory devices in the next year;

(2) Review the diagrams in this week's reading depicting the Internal Supply Relationships and the External Supply Network. Select 2-3 items from each diagram and explain what additional information you'd like from them or what information you'd like to share with them due to the predicted supply/demand scenario in the year to come.

Suggested Outline:

1. Statement explaining the purpose of the document
2. Summary of the expectations of the supply market of memory in the year to come.
3. What additional information would you like to get from internal supply relationships or your external supply network? Why?
4. What information do you believe needs to be shared with internal supply relationships or the external supply network? Why?
5. Next steps in the form of an action plan.