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Managing the Global Supply Chain and Sustainability
2,500 words
Managing the Global Supply Chain and Sustainability – Individual Company Case Analysis
This assessment is an individual company case analysis for the Level 7 module Managing the Global Supply Chain and Sustainability. Students are required to select a real organisation of any size, type, industry or country and produce a comprehensive analysis of one operations performance objective. The available performance objectives are cost, dependability, flexibility, speed and quality. The report should identify current issues faced by the chosen organisation in relation to the selected objective and critically analyse the factors affecting its performance. Students are expected to apply relevant theories, concepts and tools covered during lectures and seminars to the selected company case. Rather than providing only descriptive explanations of theoretical concepts, the assessment requires students to demonstrate how these concepts can be applied to understand the organisation's operational or supply chain challenges. The analysis should consider how relevant theories, models or tools could contribute to improving the company's performance. The report should also provide a critical discussion of appropriate performance-improvement practices. These may include the use of digital technologies, sustainability practices, supply chain strategies, operational approaches or other relevant methods. Students should relate these practices directly to the findings from their chosen company case and consider their practical implications. Academic evidence and real-world examples should be used to support the analysis, with appropriate attention given to supply chain and operations management literature. The assessment is designed to develop students' ability to understand supply chain strategies, assess their contribution to agility, viability and sustainability, propose practical solutions to modern logistics and supply chain challenges, and evaluate how digital technologies and sustainability practices can improve supply chain performance. The report should therefore demonstrate analysis, application of theory, critical evaluation and evidence-based recommendations rather than simply describing the organisation or its supply chain. The individual report has a maximum length of 2,500 words, excluding references, tables, figures and appendices. It must include a contents page, be spell-checked and follow the specified formatting requirements. The report should use Arial 12-point font, 1.5 line spacing, A4 page size and 2.54 cm margins. Academic sources such as journal articles and books should be used, and all sources cited within the report must appear in a Harvard-style reference list. The report is submitted through Moodle Turnitin as a Word document.
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Operations Management / Business Simulation / Process Improvement
3,500 words
Operations and Simulation Analysis: Sam’s Sandwich Shop
This operations-management portfolio uses the Sam’s Sandwich Shop case study to examine service-process performance, simulation modelling, resource planning and operational improvement within a busy takeaway food environment. The case concerns a small sandwich outlet located in the departure lounge of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, where rising terminal capacity is expected to increase customer demand over a five-month period. Students investigate how the store’s current sandwich assembly and service process performs under this growing demand and identify opportunities for operational improvement. MGT4924 Assignment instructions… The assessment consists of three related tasks. Task 1 – Arena Simulation Model requires students to develop a valid and functioning discrete-event simulation of the current system using Arena Simulation software. The model must accurately represent customer arrivals, ordering and payment, movement between the service counter and sandwich assembly area, preparation of meat, cheese and vegetarian sandwiches, resource constraints, queues and the possibility of sandwiches being rejected and remade. A commentary of up to 500 words must be included within the model to explain its main components and operation. MGT4924 Assignment instructions… MGT4924 Assignment instructions… The case provides defined operational resources, including three servers, two cash registers, one meat counter, one cheese counter and one vegetarian counter. The same server completes the full customer-service cycle, and customers join a single FIFO queue when both a server and cash register are not immediately available. The simulation must run for one week, equivalent to 168 hours, using multiple replications. MGT4924 Assignment instructions… Task 2 – Simulation Report requires a professional 1,000-word report analysing the system’s performance across the five-month period using results generated from the simulation study. Students must conduct experiments to determine suitable resource levels for each month and provide justified recommendations concerning the number of resources required for optimal operational performance. Tables and figures must be created independently in Excel rather than copied directly from Arena outputs. MGT4924 Assignment instructions… Task 3 – Operations Report requires a 2,000-word critical report examining two operations-management concepts in the context of Sam’s Sandwich Shop and the wider takeaway-food sector. Students analyse how the selected concepts are or could be implemented, identify associated operational problems and impacts, evaluate potential solutions, and consider relevant tools, techniques, methods and emerging technologies that could improve performance and competitive advantage. Two detailed and justified recommendations must be provided for each selected concept. MGT4924 Assignment instructions… Overall, the portfolio integrates discrete-event simulation, process analysis, resource optimisation, operational performance measurement and evidence-based operations-management decision making. Strong submissions are expected to move beyond simply reporting simulation outputs by critically analysing performance, evaluating experimental results, presenting high-quality data visualisations and producing logical, well-justified operational recommendations. MGT4924 Assignment instructions…
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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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Global Supply Chain Management / Operations Management
2,494 words
Global Supply Chain and Operations Performance: Company Case Analysis
This Level 7 individual assignment requires students to produce a 2,500-word company case analysis examining an important operations performance issue within a real organisation. Students may select an organisation of any size, type, industry or country and must concentrate their analysis on one operations performance objective: cost, dependability, flexibility, speed or quality. The report requires students to identify the current challenges faced by the chosen organisation in relation to the selected performance objective and critically examine those challenges using relevant operations and supply chain management theories, concepts and analytical tools. Rather than providing only a descriptive account of organisational activities, students are expected to apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to the case and evaluate how these concepts could contribute to improved organisational and supply chain performance. A significant component of the assignment involves critically discussing appropriate best practices for performance improvement. These may include digital technologies, sustainability practices or other relevant operational and supply chain approaches. Students should connect these practices directly to findings from their chosen company case and assess their practical relevance, opportunities and limitations. Academic literature and appropriate real-world evidence should be used throughout to substantiate the analysis and recommendations. The assignment evaluates students' ability to analyse supply chain and operations problems, apply academic theory to organisational practice, and develop evidence-based conclusions and practical recommendations. The marking rubric places substantial emphasis on analysis and discussion (30%), application of theory (30%), and conclusions and recommendations (30%), with the remaining 10% allocated to presentation, logical structure, English expression and correct referencing. The report must use Harvard referencing, include a contents page, and follow the specified academic formatting requirements, including Arial size 12, 1.5 line spacing and A4 pages with 2.54 cm margins.
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