Supply Chain Management

This individual project aims to apply supply chain and related aspects covered in the course. The word count is 3000 (excluding references, table of contents, and appendices where used), with +/-10% limits allowed. The assignment accounts for 100% of your overall module marks. The topics are given below. You can select ONLY ONE topic.

1. How does supply chain management contribute to performance dimensions (e.g., examples of agile supply chains contributing to performance dimensions during covid-19). Performance dimensions are social, environmental, and economical.
2. How do analytics and data contribute to performance dimensions (e.g., customer analytics to understand customer preferences and acting according to enhance performance dimensions)
3. How supply chain technologies contribute to performance dimensions (e.g., Internet of things and RFID for automated data collection and its effects on performance dimensions)
4. How do network analytics contribute to the dimensions of performance (e.g., exploring supply chain actors’ networks and analysing their contributions to performance dimensions (e.g., Internet of things and automated data collection and its effects on business performance)
5. How do optimisation and operational tools contribute to performance dimensions (e.g., optimising supply chain flows to minimise supply chain costs)

Structure: Your project should be structured in the following sections and the focus should be as per the marks allocated.
Section Details Marks %
1) Introduction and the scenario for the problem and issues you want to address • Guiding the reader what is included in the project; the sequence and a brief explanation of each section
• Description of the specific problem and related issues you want to address 15%

2) Up-to-date literature review with a critical approach • Significance, breadth of sources, criticality, consistent referencing style, tightly connected with the topic, application, and examples for justification 20%

3) Technical platform, relevant challenges, and the scenario after implementation of your solutions • Define the technological platform (or measures) that you think are the most suitable to solve the problem and issues described in Section 1, providing examples and justification using cross-referencing from Section 2.
• Solution(s) after implementation
35%

4) Discussion and conclusions • Summarising
• Compare findings with the literature
• Recommendations for managers
• Limitations and future research recommendations 15%
5) Overall quality • Logically written
• Overall, tightly connected with the question/topic/application
• High quality of referencing
• Tables, figures, and data used 15%

Re-sit Note: This assessment significantly focuses on examining contemporary concepts. A choice of various topics is provided. In the case of re-sitting, the student will NOT be allowed to work on the same topic, although the structure will remain the same. The student will have to select a new topic for his/her re-sit. Therefore, the assignment descriptor is also appropriate for the re-sit if required.

Referencing: You are required to use Harvard referencing style,
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/guides/qgcit002.pdf