MO9520: You are an International Operations and Supply chain Analyst and You are Going to Critically Analyse the Three-Dimensional Sustainability of Fresh Food Logistics: International Operations Management Assignment, KU, Singapore

Task 1 

You are an international operations and supply chain analyst and you are going to critically analyse the three-dimensional sustainability of fresh food logistics against the car manufacturing logistics. You will critically evaluate the current issues, challenges and expected future for the in-bound and out-bound logistics and supply networks nationally and globally in relation to meeting four key performance indicators (KPIs) of quality, time, cost and environmental impact.

Organisations are obliged to meet objectives associated with these four KPIs in a synergic and integrated approach to achieve competitive advantage. You are expected to critically compare and contrast these two supply chains about how to achieve the objectives pinpointing the current issues, challenges and strategies and expected future strategies.

These strategies, theories or tools are expected to be critically analysed to promote a top-quality, responsive, fast, efficient and environmentally friendly supply chain.

The critical analysis includes underpinning theories and strategies extracted from sufficient to date peer-reviewed academic journal articles as theoretical background and analysing real-world examples and cases (minimum one example of each supply chain). The theories and strategies must be referred to but not limited to those that have already been taught during this semester.

You are expected to create an argumentative discussion by comparing and contrasting these supply chains and adding your own insight and analysis.

Please, note that all four KPIs of quality, time, cost and CO2 emission must be critically analysed in this analysis.

Task 2

You are part of an Asian-Pacific Conference advisory team to organise a Conference about “Contemporary issues and strategies in Global Operations and Supply Chain Management (GLOSCM)”. You could refer to the examples in lecture and research–enriched discussions to find more information.

You have been asked to suggest FIVE different themes for this Conference. Themes are the main criteria that Conference papers and presentations must be relevant to and must be related and beneficial to GLOSCM and crucial in the view of both researchers and practitioners (refer to the provided marking guide or tips). Conference delegates are university academics and postgraduate students and also some executive business leaders of global organisations around Europe.

You will critically justify the selection of these themes, which could represent current contemporary issues and research and business hot topics in GLSCM with the support of up to date peer-reviewed academic journal articles.

As part of justification, you will critically analyse these themes and the importance of them to be part of this Asian-Pacific Conference both theoretically (research and literature – support) and practically (Business – support). You are expected to present these FIVE themes very clearly. The themes do not have to be only limited to Europe and could be a broader global theme.