General Motors

• You are acting in the role of a supply management analyst

• Select any company or segment of any company from the fortune 500 list

• You are to evaluate the company from a supply management perspective

• Your evaluation will be based on the elements from your learning throughout the course but will require additional research on the particular company

• Your evaluation should include:

- An Introduction to the company and its business, policies and organizational structure

- Types of strategic sourcing strategies. What is insourced and what is outsourced and why

- What is sourced in CONUS and OCONUS and why

- Types of contract strategies (Long Term, Short Term, Fixed Price, Cost Plus, etc.)

- Types of quality management and or environmental standards required and used

- Types of risk and risk management strategies

- Types of supplier relationships, develop and manage strategies (include the number of suppliers)

- Types of supplier evaluation and selection techniques or methods or strategies

- Explain the most important supplier performance requirements and measurements (Quality of products or service; on time delivery; cost management; etc.)

- Types of information technology used

- Types of cost manage methods used

- Future vision or direction for the company

• Your formal written evaluation should be no more than 12 double spaced pages using Times New Roman size 12 font in APA format

• You will prepare a 10 - 15 Page PowerPoint on your paper to be presented during the last weekend session

• Email a copy of your PowerPoint presentation to the instructor by midnight prior to the day of your presentation