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1) Research Project: The subject matter will be a summary of Advanced Lean Techniques The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer J. Liker (2004). This paper will be a minimum of 14 pages, please also see Blackboard for additional details. Your submission will summarize and critique each of the 20 Principles defined by The Toyota Way. Please see below for details:

• Provide details that clearly demonstrate your understanding of each principle.
• Illustrate each principle with current business examples.
• State your belief (supported by examples or further research) of the relevance of these principles to an American company.
• Reflect the impact of a countrys culture on implementation of these principles
• Describe how as a change agent of lean you would embrace each principle within an organization or how you might modify the presentation to help sell the general idea.

The learning outcomes of this assessment are:

• Critically evaluate the concepts and trends relating to digitalisation in supply chains.
• Autonomously evaluate how emerging and existing information technologies (and systems) enhance supply chain efficiency, integration and visibility.
• Deploy originality in the application of current theory to critically discuss the benefits and challenges of supply chain digitalisation.

Purpose

The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of how disruptive technologies, emerging technologies and information technologies (and systems) enhance supply chain efficiency, integration and visibility. In addition, you are required to apply current theory to critically discuss the benefits and challenges of supply chain digitisation.

Details

For this assessment you will be required to:

1. Identify a supply chain within a specific sector (of your choice) and briefly explain the organisation, its supply chain partners and its line of business.
2. Critically discuss the suitability (including opportunities and risks) of disruptive technologies (for example, artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, etc.) and how these can impact the supply chain processes. Discuss these within the context of supply chain efficiency, integration, visibility, transparency or resilience.
3. Pick one or two theories to critically discuss the benefits and challenges of supply chain digitisation. Provide recommendations for supply chain digitisation based on the analysis.

You will need to define all the concepts that you are referring to in the essay

You are required to use literature research (for example, academic references, news reports, online customer reviews, etc.) and personal experience to develop this assessment. Your essay should draw on at least 15 sources. It is essential that you reference all sources used in the text. The recommended split between peer-reviewed (academic books and articles) and grey sources (company reports, consultation reviews, industry blogs, etc) you use is 50%-50%

1,800 words.

References should be reflected in Harvard style

You will take on the role of a project manager who was asked to evaluate four potential projects using discounted cash flow analysis and payback period analysis. Your output is a detailed business report that contains your analysis of the projects, along with your recommendations. Be prepared to show NPV, payback periods, and dependencies. Your analysis should be strong enough to allow the companys senior leaders to make an informed decision.

Select a multinational company (MNC) who has excess of unsold products in their

warehouses due to bullwhip effect and inaccurate demand forecasting. Provide
recommendations for all entities of the supply chain of your chosen MNC to mitigate the
impact of bullwhip effect and poor demand forecasting.

two major topics- bullwhip effect and qualitative
forecasting method. The reading list includes one journal article, and one chapter each
from four different books. The reading list has been carefully chosen to comprehensively

explain both topics, where bullwhip effect is slightly quantitative in nature and forecasting
method is purely qualitative in nature.
Lee, H. L., Padmanabhan, V., & Whang, S. (1997). The bullwhip effect in supply
chains. MIT Sloan Management Review, 38(3), 93-102.
Slack, N., Brandon-Jones, A., & Johnston, R. (2016). Operations Management (8th
edition), Chapter 12, Pearson education.
Slack, N., Brandon-Jones, A., & Johnston, R. (2016). Operations Management (8th
edition), Supplement to Chapter 5, Pearson education.
Chopra, S. (2019) Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. 7th
Global Edition, Chapter 7
Wang, X., & Disney, S. M. (2016). The bullwhip effect: Progress, trends and
directions. European Journal of Operational Research, 250(3), 691-701

Requirements: 300

All instructions attached

Project Description

• Student Groups will be provided with raw data in Excel that identifies products, product families, warehouses, transportation costs, product level COGS and margin. Historical demand for each product will also be provided. Groups will be required to analyze the data and develop the following:
• Select a forecasting method and develop a sales forecast.
• Analyze the data and develop an ABC analysis. The analysis might best be performed in more than one way. Scenario 1 would involve optimization of Margin, while scenario 2 is to optimize revenue. An additional segmentation approach incorporating concepts of data fit to forecasting is added to create a multifaceted segmentation approach called ABC/XYZ.
• Develop safety stock strategies and calculate safety stocks, EOQ, and reorder points.
• Evaluate the effect of changes in lead times & cost based upon choice of transportation method (air and sea). Based upon this analysis, we determine the best shipping methods, at the item level to optimize the groups result in terms of effects on inventory, revenue, and margin optimization.
• Develop target inventory levels and assess how various levels of inventory and service levels impact margin and revenue optimization.Key Outputs and Assumptions (Example will be updated prior to Milestone 2)
  • Organizations Gross Margin Objective is 36% to 42%
  • Key statistics of this Base Case:

  This is the Base Case that students need to create and hit tolerances identified in the Rubric and instructions. Essentially, the Student Groups need to develop a base case that comes with +/- .5% of the forecast growth from 2023 to 2024 and develop a target inventory value with +/- 15% of Professor Browns developed target.

  1. The Base requires an increase of 9% in the forecast value of total order opportunity.
  2. Last years Sales Orders Totaled $557.4M and in the base case could not fulfill 5% of these orders.
  3. This Years Forecasted Sales Orders total xxxxxxxM and total net revenue at 95% service level is xxxxxxM
  4. Target inventory in the base case with safety stock at a 95% service level is $xxxxxx for your forecasted revenue at 95% service level.

• Students can assume a 10% increase in Forecast Order Value, as compared to last year. That should be distributed proportionally across the product portfolio. Hint: See price increase assumption and please factor that into your overall sales forecast.
• Revenue Growth (Hint you can manage the level of revenue growth based upon safety stock service levels, and some level of slight lift that is incorporated into the forecast) from last year is a requirement. However, what is the impact of different levels of revenue growth on margin. Sales history is based upon actual orders. At a 95% service level we can assume, for the purposes of your model, that 5% of the revenue based upon last year’s orders was lost. This should be deducted from last year’s revenue and corresponding margin. As you develop your safety stocks at an SKU level you can manage the lost sales vs margin uplift (lower service level means more lost sales, but less holding costs, while higher service levels will produce the opposite reaction.
• Aggregate Target inventory level will be provided by Professor Brown. Each student group needs to develop a base case that represents your calculated target inventory. Professor Brown has identified a notional target inventory for each data set. Students are to develop a base case with their target inventory. The target inventory should be within +/-15% of the target provided by Professor Brown
• Holding costs can be assumed to be 35% of the Cost of Goods Sold, herein referred to as COGS.
• Order costs can be assumed to be $1000 per order.
• Current product price as developed based upon COGS and Margins is to serve as the base case.
• When air is used in place of Sea the lead time can be assumed to be reduced by 42 days and the cost is increased by 30%
• All freight is priced in COGS, with the freight method as designated in the spreadsheet. If you choose to adjust the freight method then COGS will need to be adjusted. NOTE: This is an optimization scenario that the student does not need to model but can receive extra credit if successfully modeled.
• That part of COGS that represents the Freight Cost is identified for each product based upon the indicated freight mode (sea vs air).
• If you model the cost effect of the change in the freight mode assume 4X the cost from Sea to Air and a reduction of 30% from Air to Sea.
• Assumed prices will increase by 4% in the coming year.
• Assumed cost of goods sold will increase by 4% per unit in the coming year.
• Excel Spreadsheet is being provided. It is expected that data analysis techniques such as pivot tables will be needed to summarize the results of different service and inventory strategies.
• Optimization strategies need to include separate analysis for revenue and margin.

Project Description

• Student Groups will be provided with raw data in Excel that identifies products, product families, warehouses, transportation costs, product level COGS and margin. Historical demand for each product will also be provided. Groups will be required to analyze the data and develop the following:
• Select a forecasting method and develop a sales forecast.
• Analyze the data and develop an ABC analysis. The analysis might best be performed in more than one way. Scenario 1 would involve optimization of Margin, while scenario 2 is to optimize revenue. An additional segmentation approach incorporating concepts of data fit to forecasting is added to create a multifaceted segmentation approach called ABC/XYZ.
• Develop safety stock strategies and calculate safety stocks, EOQ, and reorder points.
• Evaluate the effect of changes in lead times & cost based upon choice of transportation method (air and sea). Based upon this analysis, we determine the best shipping methods, at the item level to optimize the groups result in terms of effects on inventory, revenue, and margin optimization.
• Develop target inventory levels and assess how various levels of inventory and service levels impact margin and revenue optimization.Key Outputs and Assumptions (Example will be updated prior to Milestone 2)
  • Organizations Gross Margin Objective is 36% to 42%
  • Key statistics of this Base Case:

  This is the Base Case that students need to create and hit tolerances identified in the Rubric and instructions. Essentially, the Student Groups need to develop a base case that comes with +/- .5% of the forecast growth from 2023 to 2024 and develop a target inventory value with +/- 15% of Professor Browns developed target.

  1. The Base requires an increase of 9% in the forecast value of total order opportunity.
  2. Last years Sales Orders Totaled $557.4M and in the base case could not fulfill 5% of these orders.
  3. This Years Forecasted Sales Orders total xxxxxxxM and total net revenue at 95% service level is xxxxxxM
  4. Target inventory in the base case with safety stock at a 95% service level is $xxxxxx for your forecasted revenue at 95% service level.

• Students can assume a 10% increase in Forecast Order Value, as compared to last year. That should be distributed proportionally across the product portfolio. Hint: See price increase assumption and please factor that into your overall sales forecast.
• Revenue Growth (Hint you can manage the level of revenue growth based upon safety stock service levels, and some level of slight lift that is incorporated into the forecast) from last year is a requirement. However, what is the impact of different levels of revenue growth on margin. Sales history is based upon actual orders. At a 95% service level we can assume, for the purposes of your model, that 5% of the revenue based upon last year’s orders was lost. This should be deducted from last year’s revenue and corresponding margin. As you develop your safety stocks at an SKU level you can manage the lost sales vs margin uplift (lower service level means more lost sales, but less holding costs, while higher service levels will produce the opposite reaction.
• Aggregate Target inventory level will be provided by Professor Brown. Each student group needs to develop a base case that represents your calculated target inventory. Professor Brown has identified a notional target inventory for each data set. Students are to develop a base case with their target inventory. The target inventory should be within +/-15% of the target provided by Professor Brown
• Holding costs can be assumed to be 35% of the Cost of Goods Sold, herein referred to as COGS.
• Order costs can be assumed to be $1000 per order.
• Current product price as developed based upon COGS and Margins is to serve as the base case.
• When air is used in place of Sea the lead time can be assumed to be reduced by 42 days and the cost is increased by 30%
• All freight is priced in COGS, with the freight method as designated in the spreadsheet. If you choose to adjust the freight method then COGS will need to be adjusted. NOTE: This is an optimization scenario that the student does not need to model but can receive extra credit if successfully modeled.
• That part of COGS that represents the Freight Cost is identified for each product based upon the indicated freight mode (sea vs air).
• If you model the cost effect of the change in the freight mode assume 4X the cost from Sea to Air and a reduction of 30% from Air to Sea.
• Assumed prices will increase by 4% in the coming year.
• Assumed cost of goods sold will increase by 4% per unit in the coming year.
• Excel Spreadsheet is being provided. It is expected that data analysis techniques such as pivot tables will be needed to summarize the results of different service and inventory strategies.
• Optimization strategies need to include separate analysis for revenue and margin.

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1. DEFM310

Instructions

Assignment Directions:

Describe several historical legislative acts that have institutionalized better business practices within the DoD acquisition community.

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After reviewing the Best Business Practices, find one that you find to be the most important and write about why it is so important.

Submission Instructions:

Write a two-page paper, plus the title page and a reference page.

Writing Instructions (Please do read this):

• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
• Length of paper: typed, double-spaced pages with no less than a two-page paper.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

2. RLMT301

Instructions

Assignment Directions:

Write a two-page paper on how circular recycling systems contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional linear waste management practices.

Submission Instructions:

• A 2-3 page Word Document
• Must include a title page, abstract, and references. These are not counted in the page count.