Select an Organization that You are Familiar with and Assume that You are the Purchasing Manager: Purchasing Management Assignment, SIPMM, Singapore

Assignment Brief:

Select an organization that you are familiar with and assume that you are the purchasing manager of this organization. Analyse the effectiveness of these three aspects of the purchasing management, namely supplier selection criteria and related issues (eg. single or multiples sources, local or overseas, etc.), purchasing costs, and the use of information & communication technologies (ICT) for purchasing operations and management.

You are required to consult and fully reference a MINIMUM of 10 references (e.g., book; www; journal article from the full-text databases; current affairs magazine; newspaper, etc.). The use of the WIKIPEDIA online encyclopedia is NOT allowed. The word range of this essay is about 2,000 words.

The report must fulfill the following requirements:

• More marks will be awarded for reports which provide more detailed discussion and in-depth analysis with adequate referencing to the purchasing concepts and models.

Assignment Format:

The report should be presented as follows:

• Introduction – Outline the purpose of this essay (about 100 words) and provide the key information about the selected local retailer (about 200 words), information includes products, supplier markets, competitors, organizational goals and strategies, etc.
• Supplier Selection Criteria and Issues – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate criteria to be considered when selecting supplier(s) and the decisions required to be made for issues relating to supplier selection (about 500 words).
• ICT For Purchasing Operations – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the ICT to be applied for improving purchasing operations (about 500 words).
• Purchasing Cost Analysis – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate tools to be considered for analysing the purchasing costs (about 500 words).
• Conclusion – Reinstates all of the significant parts of this report and refers the reader back to the focus that has outlined in the introduction and to the central topic. This gives the report a sense of unity (about 200 words)
• Referencing – All sources referred to in your essay, including any diagrams, must be referenced to in-text and be included in a full reference list at the end of the assignment, according to the APA system of referencing. Use the following Kaplan resource to assist you to do this accurately and consistently.