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Global Supply Chain Management
1,800 words
Suez Canal Blockage: A Case Study of Global Supply Chain Disruption
This individual report examines the challenges faced by global supply chains as a result of the Suez Canal blockage and critically evaluates the factors that affected supply chain performance during the disruption. The assignment uses the Suez Canal blockage as a case study to explore the wider principles and practices of global supply chain management, with particular attention to supply chain disruption, risk management, resilience, logistics, supplier relationships and integrated supply chain performance. The report requires students to conduct preliminary research into the Suez Canal blockage and use relevant academic and practical sources to identify the major challenges created by the disruption. The case study focuses on the six-day stranding of the Ever Given and the resulting disruption to international supply chains and global trade. The assessment considers how a disruption at a strategically important global trade route can create wider consequences for organisations, logistics networks and supply chain operations. The analysis should identify the key factors that influenced supply chain performance and critically evaluate the effectiveness of the solutions implemented to resolve the disruption. Relevant global supply chain management theories, models and concepts should be clearly defined and applied to the case rather than simply described. The report should demonstrate an understanding of fundamental supply chain principles and consider how evolving trends and global issues can affect supply chain operations. The assignment also encourages consideration of important supply chain management areas covered within the unit, including risk management, resilience, outsourcing, supplier planning and selection, relationship management, supply chain integration, demand management, order management and customer service. These concepts should be connected to the Suez Canal blockage to provide a critical assessment of the challenges and possible approaches to improving supply chain resilience. The report must be presented in a formal and logically coherent report format and should provide evidence of critical reasoning through a wide range of relevant academic and practical sources. The conclusion should draw together the main findings, while recommendations should propose realistic approaches for addressing the supply chain issues identified in the case. The assessment is worth 30% of the overall unit mark and requires an individual report of 1,800 words, with a permitted variation of ±10%. The report is assessed across four main areas: use of theory and frameworks (25%), analysis and evaluation (30%), conclusions and recommendations (20%), and structure, presentation and referencing (25%). The marking criteria emphasise the application of relevant theoretical concepts, critical evaluation of academic and practical sources, a clear connection between theory and practice, realistic recommendations, logical structure, and appropriate in-text citations and referencing.
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4,200 words
Global Supply Chain Strategy for the Gatwick Airport Northern Runway Expansion
This individual Global Supply Chain Management assessment requires students to prepare a professional strategic report on the supply chain implications of the Gatwick Airport Northern Runway expansion. The task focuses on applying contemporary supply chain theories, models and analytical techniques to a complex infrastructure development context, with particular attention to strategic relationships, operational efficiency, risk and resilience. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… The report begins by establishing the background to the organisation and examining its current global supply chain context. Students are expected to consider issues including strategic supplier and customer relationships, risk management, resilience, outsourcing, supplier planning and selection, integration, supply chain networks, leadership, benchmarking, decision-making, lean principles and agile supply chains. These areas provide the basis for evaluating how supply chain performance can be improved in a major airport expansion project. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… A key analytical component requires a PESTEL analysis to critically assess how external political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors may affect the organisation’s global supply chain. The purpose is not only to identify external pressures but to evaluate how those factors may influence sourcing, supplier management, cost, risk exposure, resilience and long-term strategic decision-making. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… The final part of the report develops strategic recommendations aimed at optimising supply chain performance. Recommendations should focus on reducing costs, supporting sustainability, improving operational efficiency and strengthening resilience. Students are expected to justify these proposals through explicit application of relevant theories and models such as lean supply chain, agile supply chain and global sourcing strategies, supported by appropriate academic and practical evidence. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… The marking criteria place substantial emphasis on theoretical application, critical analysis and the connection between theory and practice. The rubric allocates 25% to theory and frameworks, 30% to analysis and evaluation, 20% to conclusions and recommendations, and 25% to structure, presentation and referencing. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo… Overall, the assessment develops competence in strategic supply chain analysis, infrastructure logistics, risk and resilience, supplier management, lean and agile operations, sustainability and evidence-based recommendation development. Overview word count: approximately 350 words. Important: the brief explicitly states that the report must be original and that students should not use AI to produce the work. Assignment Brief 2 - MBA013 Glo…
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Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Management
3,000 words
Critical Review of Global Logistics: Supply Chain Strategy, Resilience and Sustainability
This postgraduate logistics assessment requires students to conduct a critical review of the global logistics operations and strategies of a selected multinational manufacturing organisation. The chosen company must operate internationally and have sufficient publicly available information to support detailed academic and industry research. The report examines how global manufacturers structure, manage and improve their upstream and downstream logistics channels in increasingly complex and uncertain supply-chain environments. Component_2_NBS_7054A_25_Report… The first part analyses the organisation’s upstream and downstream logistics channels and evaluates the logistics strategies it has adopted. Particular attention is given to how the organisation responded to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students examine how supply-chain networks were reconfigured and how logistics strategies were adapted to maintain operations, while explicitly relating these responses to relevant performance objectives and supply-chain dimensions. Component_2_NBS_7054A_25_Report… The second part focuses on value creation within global logistics networks. Students evaluate how supply-chain intermediaries contribute to value co-creation while balancing operational costs and reducing waste or Muda. The analysis also considers how communication and information sharing support the objectives of the organisation’s marketing channel network and identifies lessons learned from pandemic-related disruption. Component_2_NBS_7054A_25_Report… The final section examines how the organisation can strengthen the sustainability of its logistics operations. Students assess the feasibility of aligning circular economy principles and Industry 4.0 technologies with existing inbound and outbound logistics activities. Relevant issues include reduced material use, reuse, repair, refurbishment, alternative transport modes, carbon-footprint reduction and environmental efficiency. Students must also recommend operational decisions that apply innovation-led lean approaches to sustainability initiatives. Component_2_NBS_7054A_25_Report… The marking criteria place 25% of the assessment on logistics theories and strategies, 35% on value co-creation, communication and resilient logistics networks, and 40% on circular economy, Industry 4.0 and sustainability recommendations. Marking_Criteria_NBS_7054A_25_R… Overall, the assessment integrates global logistics strategy, resilience, lean operations, digitalisation, sustainability and evidence-based supply-chain decision-making within a real organisational case study. Overview word count: approximately 340 words.
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Environmental Sustainable Engineering
3,000 words
Environmental Sustainable Construction & Logistic Sources – EG7037
This coursework assesses Environmental Sustainable Engineering and Logistic Sources through a large-scale construction project scenario. The student is appointed as the project manager for a £320 million design-and-build project involving the development of a new shopping centre in central London. The project is planned over a 48-month period and is presented as a flagship initiative focused on environmentally friendly and sustainable construction practices, with government support for its sustainability commitments. The project manager is responsible for protecting the client's interests while ensuring that project standards, schedules, budgets, procurement requirements and quality expectations are achieved. The assignment is structured around environmental sustainability, construction logistics, procurement, renewable energy, health and safety, and sustainable design. Part A requires investigation of the environmental, economic, historical and cultural factors that could contribute to significant project costs and delays. It also requires discussion of four renewable or sustainable energy sources that could be used within the project, together with justification for each selected energy source. These activities require consideration of the project's location, sustainability objectives and practical construction requirements. Part B focuses on supply chain management and health and safety. Students must outline the supply chain management and procurement process for the material resources required for the construction project. This includes consideration of how appropriate materials and suppliers can be sourced and managed. The section also requires identification of key health and safety considerations during the production phase and discussion of the associated risks. Part C focuses on sustainable design systems. Students must discuss the need for implementing passive or active systems during the design stage and identify appropriate tools or techniques that can support their application. The potential environmental impacts of these systems must also be considered. The assignment therefore requires students to connect sustainable design decisions with environmental performance and the wider objectives of the construction project. The completed coursework should be approximately 3,000 words, excluding appendices and labelled diagrams or sketches. Students are expected to provide a well-researched and clearly structured written account using appropriate textbooks and other relevant sources. Images, photographs and diagrams should include captions and be cross-referenced within the text. The submission should include a conclusion and a properly cited bibliography or reference list. References must follow the Cite Them Right requirements. The coursework is submitted electronically through the designated Turnitin link.
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Sustainable Development / Resource Management
6,000 words
Resource-Related Challenges in a Selected Country (STREAM) — Term Paper: India's Energy Sector, Coal Dependence and the Transition to Solar and Storage
This first-semester term paper for the STREAM programme takes a single country and a single resource sector and examines the challenges that arise where the two meet. India was selected for its energy sector — a case where scale, growth rate and an entrenched coal base make the tension between development need and environmental limit unusually sharp. The paper is written as an academic scientific text of roughly twenty pages, structured across the four sections the brief specifies and supported throughout by peer-reviewed literature, institutional reports and official statistical sources. The opening section establishes the country context: geographical position and climatic variation, population size and distribution, the shape and growth trajectory of the economy, development status against recognised indicators, and why the energy sector in particular is decisive for the country's near-term development path. The second section analyses the current status of the resource itself. Domestic coal reserves and their geographical concentration are set against renewable potential, particularly solar irradiance across the western and southern states. Production and consumption figures are traced over recent years, the import dependency for crude oil, gas and coking coal is quantified, and the major pressures are identified — demand growth outpacing capacity addition, the financial condition of distribution utilities, grid integration limits for variable generation, and the storage gap that constrains how far solar can displace baseload. The third section covers infrastructure and value chains. It describes the generation fleet, transmission and distribution network, and the logistics moving coal from pithead to plant, then follows the value chains attached to the resource — mining, power generation, equipment manufacturing and the growing domestic solar module and cell industry. Key stakeholders are mapped across central and state government, regulators, public and private generators, distribution companies, industrial consumers and the mining workforce whose livelihoods a transition directly affects. The final section addresses environmental problems and their connections to resource use. Ambient air quality and its public health burden, the water demand of thermal generation in already water-stressed basins, land degradation and displacement around mining regions, ash management and greenhouse gas emissions are each examined as consequences of the existing energy system rather than as separate issues. The section closes on future developments and risks: the plausible trajectories for renewable capacity and storage deployment, the stranded asset question for recently built thermal plants, and what a socially just transition would require of policy.
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Operations and Supply Chain Management
1,987 words
Supply Chain Analytics and Quantitative Data Analysis for Organisational Decision-Making
This postgraduate individual report focuses on the application of quantitative data analysis to Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management decision-making. Students are required to select an organisation from the private, public or third sector and investigate a relevant operational or supply-chain issue using quantitative data. The purpose is to demonstrate how data can be collected, prepared, analysed and interpreted to generate evidence-based insights that may support managerial decision-making. The selected dataset must relate to the organisation's operations or supply chain and may include variables such as revenues, product orders, sales, transportation costs, procurement expenditure, inventory levels or other appropriate quantitative measures. The dataset must contain at least 60 observations, and the analysis must involve at least two variables. Data may be obtained directly from organisations or from recognised secondary-data platforms and databases. The assessment consists of two equally weighted components. Part A – Motivation and Justification for the Analysis requires students to formulate relevant analytical questions and explain their practical importance by linking them to Operations and Supply Chain Management theory and business practice. Appropriate academic, industry and practitioner evidence should be used to justify the selected issue. Research questions may also be translated into testable hypotheses where appropriate. Part B – Execution of the Analysis requires students to answer the identified questions through appropriate statistical techniques. Potential methods include tables, charts, summary statistics, t-tests and regression analysis. Data may first need to be cleaned, transformed and structured before analysis. The results must then be interpreted clearly for a managerial audience such as the organisation's board, owner or CEO. The statistical analysis is expected to be conducted using Stata, with all data-cleaning, manipulation and analytical commands recorded in a reproducible do-file. The report must also demonstrate explicit links between theory and practice and contain a suitable mixture of academic and professional evidence, including at least five academic journal articles. Harvard referencing is required throughout. The resulting work demonstrates practical competence in business analytics, statistical interpretation, supply-chain decision support, reproducible analysis and evidence-based managerial communication. Overview word count: approximately 370 words.
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Computing / Artificial Intelligence / Digital Transformation / Management Consultancy
7,000 words
AI Readiness and Programme Adoption Strategy for the NewFutures: AI Programme at Northumbria University London
This postgraduate consultancy project focuses on developing an AI readiness, skills-development and programme-adoption strategy for students and recent alumni at Northumbria University London. The project supports the university’s participation in NewFutures: AI, a funded AI skills and career-readiness programme offering a four-week online course covering responsible AI foundations and specialist pathways in Marketing and Communications, Finance and Accounting, Business Operations and Logistics, Administration, and ICT and Technical Support. The central consultancy challenge is to understand the AI literacy, confidence, readiness and training needs of Northumbria University London students and alumni and translate that evidence into a practical implementation and outreach strategy. The client aims to reach approximately 12,000 students and recent alumni and support a target of 6,000 LMS registrations during the 2026–2027 programme period. The project requires primary and secondary research into AI readiness, demand for different AI-skilling pathways and barriers to participation such as awareness, time, perceived value and accessibility. The consultancy team is also expected to benchmark comparable initiatives and use research evidence to develop recommendations appropriate to different academic disciplines and student and alumni groups. The implementation component focuses on designing an evidence-based outreach and adoption campaign, including appropriate communication channels, messaging, timing, incentives, faculty engagement and stakeholder participation. Recommended channels may include email campaigns, newsletters, social media, student services, events, learning platforms and alumni communications. The project also requires an implementation timeline and indicative budget for the 2026–2027 programme period. The wider assessment develops professional consultancy capability through business and requirements analysis, research methodology, ethical research practice, practical implementation, testing and strategic recommendations. The project charter additionally establishes milestones for research design, data collection, analysis, report development, review and presentation, together with defined responsibilities for project management, data analysis, AI expertise and stakeholder communication. The individual component complements the consultancy work through critical reflection on personal contribution, skills development, decision-making, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, technical capability, innovation and continuous professional development.
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