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• Create a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation to explain a selected company’s transportation and warehousing strategy to potential investors and lenders. 

Supply chain managers coordinate all of the activities in the supply chain process into a seamless network. The transportation function of the supply chain focuses on the movement and delivery of goods and services in the supply chain network from suppliers to manufacturers to the ultimate consumers. Decisions must be made as to which mode of transportation is used to move products along with the type of warehousing systems that will be used. Many companies are choosing to outsource their supply chain to companies such as UPS.

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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Design a supply chain to support an organizational strategy. o Describe the overall transportation objectives of a selected company.o Evaluate the modes of transportation that an organization uses to move products from factory to customers.o Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses.o Analyze the economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.• Competency 2: Improve efficiency in the supply chain. o Describe how technology is used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.• Competency 3: Manage a supply chain in order to satisfy customers. o Recommend improvements for an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.• Competency 4: Communicate in a professional manner that is consistent with the expectations for supply chain managers and participants. o Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.• Questions to Consider 

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

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• For the following questions, refer to Terdiman’s article, “UPS and the Art of Sorting a Million Packages a Day,” linked in the Resources. o What are the advantages and disadvantages of their central cross dock Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky?o What is the impact that cross docking has on inventory costs, material handling costs, transportation costs, and customer satisfaction?• For this assessment, consider that you work for a company that develops and sells case studies and case study analyses. Your company’s primary customers are colleges and universities wanting to use them within their courses, but your company also has customers using them for management training and development. Your manager asked you to conduct research and develop a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to explain your selected company’s transportation and warehousing strategy to potential investors and lenders. She’s specifically interested in you creating the presentation associated with one of a small set of possibilities she provided to you. You may use the same company you selected in Assessment 3 or select a different company from this list:• L. L. Bean.• Amazon.com.• Starbucks.• Intel.• Johnson and Johnson.

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to explain your selected company’s transportation and warehousing strategy to potential investors and lenders.

You and your manager discussed the high level outline of your presentation and agreed you should address the following items. As the basis for your research you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the Capella library, and on the Internet.

• Slide 1: List the presentation title, the selected company name, the date, and your name.• Slide 2: Analyze and describe the overall transportation objectives of the selected company.• Slide 3: Describe and evaluate the modes of transportation that the company uses to move products from factory to customers, and recommend improvements to the modes of transportation.• Slide 4: Identify the locations of the factories and warehouses.• Slides 5–6: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for the organization’s factories and warehouses, and recommend strategies to mitigate the disadvantages.• Slide 7: Analyze the economic and political factors that can impact their transportation and warehousing network.• Slide 8: Analyze and describe how technology is used for managing the organization’s transportation and warehousing network.• Slide 9: Recommend improvements for the organization’s transportation and warehousing network, and support those recommendations with examples and research.• Slide 10: List at least three references.

You may use additional slides, if necessary. Provide your information as a bulleted list on the slides and insert explanations where applicable. Use the notes section in MS PowerPoint to add additional information and clarity to your presentation.

SCM Case Analysis: Transportation and Warehousing Scoring Guide

SCM Case Analysis: Transportation and Warehousing Scoring Guide 

Criteria 

Non-performance 

Basic 

Proficient 

Distinguished 

Describe the overall transportation objectives of a selected company.

Does not identify the overall transportation objectives of a selected company.

Lists transportation objectives of a selected company, but does not describe their significance.

Describes the overall transportation objectives of a selected company.

Analyzes the overall transportation objectives of a selected company. 

Evaluate the modes of transportation that an organization uses to move products from factory to customers.

Does not analyze the modes of transportation that an organization uses to move products from factory to customers.

Lists modes of transportation used by an organization to move products from factory to customers, but does not describe their significance.

Evaluates the modes of transportation that an organization uses to move products from factory to customers.

Evaluates the modes of transportation that an organization uses to move products from factory to customers, and recommends improvements to the modes of transportation. 

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses.

Does not analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses.

Lists advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses, but does not describe their significance.

Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses.

Evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for an organization’s factories and warehouses, and recommends strategies to mitigate the disadvantages. 

Analyze the economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Does not describe the economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Identifies economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network, but does not describe their significance.

Analyzes the economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Analyzes the economic and political factors that can impact an organization’s transportation and warehousing network, and relates the factors to improvement recommendations. 

Describe how technology is used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Does not identify how technology is used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Identifies how technology can be used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network, but the relationship or significance is unclear.

Describes how technology is used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Analyzes how technology is used for managing an organization’s transportation and warehousing network. 

Recommend improvements for an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Does not evaluate an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Explains strengths and weaknesses of an organization’s transportation and warehousing network, but does not explain their significance or impact.

Recommends improvements for an organization’s transportation and warehousing network.

Recommends improvements for an organization’s transportation and warehousing network; supports recommendations with examples and research. 

Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Does not exhibit proficiency in writing and critical thinking; does not appropriately attribute source.

Exhibits inconsistent proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and appropriately attributing 

  
Instructions

Write a paper discussing the importance of law and its role in the business environment. 

This paper is to be general in nature and should address each major category of law covered in the course. You may focus your attention on either civil law, criminal law, or both. Further, attention should also be given to ethical theory and its role in the formation of American jurisprudence.

This written assignment must have 10 FULL pages (not including the title and reference page). Also, the paper must be written in accordance with APA writing standards.

Appropriate citation is required 7 scholarly sources. 

Discuss three ways IS might change a manager’s job; please be specific.

Discuss two ways IT can alter an individual’s work?

 How can a manager ensure that the impact is positive rather than negative?

Based on your knowledge and experience, in at least one paragraph, please explain what do you think can go wrong and how might you minimize the risk of failure?

Groups and teams are often used interchangeably. Why is this a mistake? How would you manage a team vs. a group?

• Imagine it is your task to calculate ROI for a hypothetical training program. Determine one key element that would factor into your calculation of ROI, and identify the aspects of your hypothetical program that would make the element applicable and your calculation accurate.
• Based on the scenario, analyze the ROI of the training that was implemented, using the cost analysis approach.

Price Strategy

[WLO: 1] [CLO: 3]

Prior to completing the quiz, review Chapter 5, Table 5.3: Pricing Strategies and Objectives of the course text.

Instructions

This week, you will have an opportunity to practice completing identifying pricing strategies. Fill out the below table and submit it to Waypoint as the journal requirement for this week. You can access the table by downloading the Week 3 Journal Entry template.

I have a written assignment due. I will attach the requirements needed to complete this assignment. Please be advised that there is a 400 word minimum for this assignment. Must use required reading for in text-citations. Must use APA formatting.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written assignment can be quotes from third parties. 

fourth payment 

Option #1: Sources of Technical Risks

1. Identify an “intolerable technical risk” on a project with which you are familiar, or on one that you can research.
2. Describe the issue that created the intolerable technical risk and describe the risk itself.
3. Describe the treatment plan using cost-benefit analysis, where the risk severity is reduced to an acceptable level. (A risk register is not required for the paper with this option.)

Submission Requirements:

• For this assignment, you will be preparing your paper for submission to a conference or journal for publication, as well as submitting the paper to your instructor.
• You may submit the paper to your choice of outlet (conference or journal). Since you may be charged for your submission to some outlets, you should examine options for submission by searching the internet to find both the best fit for your paper and the acceptable cost to you. There are many journals and conferences that consider papers for publication. You might consider submitting to PMI Knowledge Shelf or AACEi Conferences (Links to an external site.). Another example is The Clute Institute (Links to an external site.), which publishes many journals and hosts conferences. Note that some journals accept undergraduate and/or graduate submissions. Visit the Council for Undergraduate Research (Links to an external site.) to learn more. Read about the journal and the types of research it is interested in publishing. Make sure you understand the journal’s submission guidelines. Some outlets require submissions in APA format and some do not; and some have special accommodations for student publications.
• This assignment does not require the student to submit the paper for publication, but it does require the student to prepare a scholarly paper **for potential submission to a selected publication outlet **with all the requisite academic and practical content in a format as stated in the publication guidelines. Again, the assignment includes that the student should identify the outlet, and deliver the scholarship and format of the paper in accordance with that publication’s style guidelines. The professor will not submit your paper to the publication outlet as that is at the discretion of the student. Actual submission to the outlet is not part of the assignment requirements, but submission in the outlet’s style guideline format to the instructor is.
• ******In an appendix after your references page, identify the following information for your submission: a) journal or conference name; b) why your paper is best suited for this outlet; and c) the submission guidelines in terms of process, requirements, cost, and general acceptance rates, if stated.
• *******Your paper must be 5 pages long, not including the required title and references pages and the appendix.
• Submit your paper in the format required by your selected outlet. (For example, if the outlet requires papers to be single spaced, then use single spacing.)
• *******Support your paper with a minimum of two current (no older than five years) scholarly sources from the CSU-Global Library, in addition to any course lecture material you wish to use. You must also use the Fontaine (2016) reading as one of the sources in your paper. 

Fontaine, M. (2016). Chapter 4 – Project risk management. In P.A.J. Green (Ed.), Enterprise Risk Management: A Common Framework for the Entire Organization. Waltham, MA: Elsevier

• Of course, you may always exceed the minimum number of sources.
• Your entire paper must be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).

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