Individual assessment

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Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

/ndi"idual assessment
The goal of the assignment is to analyse real supply chain management strategies. Your task: You can choose your own organisation or identify another organisation (or industry which has recently e!perienced significant changes in its supply chain management practices or relies hea"ily upon supply chain management practices to deli"er customer "alue and write a report. You should address the following #uestions$

% &ow does the organisation'industry utilise supply chain practices to create additional customer "alue( )r* what should they +e doing( ,ustify any proposals. % -hat is the organisation'industry doing to reduce supply chain costs (in"entory* warehousing* transportation* etc. ( )r* again* what should they +e doing( ,ustify any proposals. % &ow has the synthesis of the supply chain* the management of inter. organisational relationships and the coordination of acti"ities +etween the organisations of the supply chain +een changed with the use of /CT( )r* how should it change( Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme Dr Daniel Chicksand

;rading assessments
Your indi"idual assignment grade will +e +ased on three components$ +readth and depth of research (123 $ This component reflects the #uantity and #uality of material you find regarding the answers for the #uestions and the selected company. 4se as many sources as possi+le5 te!t+ooks* referred articles* newspapers* trade 6ournals* the we+ etc. #uality of analysis (723 $ This component reflects the coherence of your arguments and insights of your analysis* and use of concepts from the course as well as reflection on their use. #uality of presentation (823 $ This component reflects the #uality of your writing. 0or e!ample* are thoughts well.de"eloped and presented in a logical order( 9re spelling and grammar errors a"oided( 9re figures and ta+les clear( :ach of the three components of your assignment grade will +e +ased on a 2.82 scale. The weighted a"erage of these components will determine your final grade.

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Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

;rading assessments
An excellent answer: 9 "ery thorough answer to the #uestions will demonstrating an e!tensi"e
reading from a "ariety of different sources and a "ery comprehensi"e approach to the e"aluation of the chosen case. This will include the use of a "ariety of different models* including those taught in class and researched from a range of further reading. You will not only use models +ut also take a critical compare and contrast approach with them* concluding which is the +est organisational fit. Diagrams will +e used and adapted to the organisational e!amples. The assignment will also flow concisely.

A very good answer: This is likely to +e less well constructed.

/t should answer thoroughly the first two #uestions using theoretical models discussed in the class and pro"ide e"idence of literature re"iew. There will +e a comprehensi"e approach to the e"aluation of the chosen organisation* +ut it is likely that the range of models used will +e smaller and more descripti"e* although still showing e"idence of +ackground reading. /t will clearly demonstrate an e"aluati"e* critical* approach to the work* +ut the conclusions are likely to +e less well formulated.

A fair answer: This is likely to pro"ide descripti"e answers to the #uestions* displaying little
e"idence of +ackground reading and will also +e descripti"e rather than analytical in its approach* in relation to +oth the organisational e"idence and the use of models. The assignment is not likely to +e well constructed.

This will fail to gi"e a satisfactory answer or will gi"e wrong answers to the #uestions and make either no o"ert use* or "ery insignificant use of any of the esta+lished theories* either used in class or from +ackground reading in the analysis of the SCM practices of the chosen company. Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme Dr Daniel Chicksand

A fail answer:

Types of >lagiarism
Intra-corpal
copying from other students on the same course

Extra-corpal
copying from an e!ternal source (a +ook* we+ site etc.

Autoplagiarism
Citing one<s own work without acknowledgement

Cryptomnesia
=elief that an idea is one<s own* forgetting that it +elonged to someone else

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?eferencing

-hen undertaking assignments*it is e!pected and indeed normal academic practice to cite the work of others This is important since it demonstrates your understanding of the su+6ect area 0or e!ample* analytical frameworks are often used to sol"e case.study pro+lems

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&owe"er@

/t is really important to +e a+le to distinguish +etween your own ideas and the ideas of others. /f you fail to make this distinction clear* then it +ecomes difficult or impossi+le for the marker to get an appreciation of what is your contri+ution to the su+6ect and what is the work of others. -here this distinction isn<t made* you lea"e yourself open to an accusation of plagiarism.

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Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

Citing work

You need to make it e!plicitly clear where you are using other authors ideas in your work This is done through referencing There are a num+er of different ways to reference. The &9?A9?D referencing style is used at -=S
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:!ample C$ Short #uote

Good Practice:
Slack and Lewis (822B p CD define operations strategy as Ethe strategic reconciliation of market requirements with operational resources

Plagiarism:
)perations strategy is the strategic reconciliation of market re#uirements with operational resources.

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:!ample 8$ Longer Fuote

Good Practice:
Slack and Lewis (822B p CB define operations strategy as

Ethe total pattern of decisions which shape the long term capabilities of any type of operation and their contribution to overall strategy, through the reconciliation of market requirements with operational resources .

Plagiarism$
)perations strategy is the total pattern of decisions which shape the long term capa+ilities of any type of operation and their contri+ution to o"erall strategy* through the reconciliation of market re#uirements with operational resources

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:!ample 1$ >araphrasing

Plagiarism
)perations strategy is a process of reconciliation. 4nlike operations management* operations strategy deals with the long.term decisions within a company. The re#uirements of customers needs and the operations resources a"aila+le within the company need 6oint consideration when identifying the operations strategy and any differences +etween the two reconciled (Slack and Lewis (822B pCB .

Dr Daniel Chicksand

Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

:!ample 1$ >araphrasing

Plagiarism
)perations strategy is a process of reconciliation. 4nlike operations management* operations strategy deals with the long.term decisions within a company. The re#uirements of customers needs and the operations resources a"aila+le within the company need 6oint consideration when identifying the operations strategy and any differences +etween the two reconciled (Slack and Lewis 822B p CB .

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Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

:!ample 1$ >araphrasing

Plagiarism
)perations strategy is a process of reconciliation. 4nlike operations management* operations strategy deals with the long.term decisions within a company. The re#uirements of customers needs and the operations resources a"aila+le within the company need 6oint consideration when identifying the operations strategy and any differences +etween the two reconciled (Slack and Lewis 822B p CB .

Dr Daniel Chicksand

Logistics & Supply Chain Manageme

:!ample 1$ >araphrasing

Good Practice
Slack and Lewis (822B p CB discuss operations strategy as a process of reconciliation. 4nlike operations management* operations strategy deals with the long.term decisions within a company (Slack and Lewis 822B p CB . The re#uirements of customers needs and the operations resources a"aila+le within the company need 6oint consideration when identifying the operations strategy and any differences +etween the two reconciled (Slack and Lewis 822B p CB .

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?eferencing Styles

>referred approach is &ar"ard

/n Te!t$ 9uthor(family name only * Year * >age Gum+er (if a +ook

:!amples$
Slack and Lewis (822B p CD . =ook -ake (822D
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