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Assignment 2: Vice President of Operations, Part 2
Due Week 6 and worth 280 points
Refer to the scenario from Assignment 1.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization’s product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation. Provide support for the rationale.
- Determine the key components of supply chain management for the company you have selected. Determine three (3) major issues that could affect the structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and the supply chain of your organization. Provide a solution to each issue.
- Develop a total quality management tool that identifies and analyzes any future issues. Provide a rationale for developing the selected tool.
- Analyze three (3) advantages in employing the just-in-time philosophy in your organization. Evaluate three to five (3-5) means in which the philosophy could potentially impact quality assurance. Provide specific examples to support your response.
- Determine a qualitative and quantitative forecasting method for your operation. Next, create a table in which you identify the characteristics of the operation that relate to each method. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method.
- Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Determine the key components of supply chain management including structuring, sourcing, purchasing, and managing the supply chain.
- Examine how the total quality management process is a strategy for a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
- Identify the key elements of just-in-time manufacturing and its impact on quality assurances.
- Develop a forecasting method appropriate to a production or service operation.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in operations management.
- Write clearly and concisely about operations management using proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills. Click here to access the rubric for this assignment.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Chain Management
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Introduction
Supply chain management is crucial because it helps in operating the management of
organization in picking of the finished goods from the industries and delivering them door to
door of the customers faster, satisfying the needs and wants of the customers. The L &J
.G.Stickley company are chosen organizations for completing the functions above. The
products produced by the organization includes all wool products, leather products (chairs,
doors etc.).The organization also produces an oak furniture which are an old fashion product
of the industry.
Challenges in production
Some products that the organization used to produce are directly affecting eco-system
for example wood and leather production. These pose great problems because the parent
materials of the products increase the risk of the growth of the organization. So the major
weakness of this company concerns the timed delivering of the products and low demands
due to the non-environmental nature of the products (Cheng, & Podolsky, 2016). These
weakness affect the products life cycle because every product has a maturity target market in
a small time creating a huge problem for the organization.
Improvement of life cycle of the product with new product design and selection
The low demand negatively affects the organization forcing the productions
management staff to reduce production of the existing products. These change in the policy
of production also affects delivering of the existing products to existing customers still
demanding the products due to the reduced presents of products at their normal distribution
points. So it is relevant for the company to hold sustainable products in the market
(Kyriakopoulos, 2011). Therefore, the organization will have to implement the new
alternative of oak and leather including bamboos and others woods that can be available in
the country but having no ecological concerns. It is the option that would help the companies
improve the products life cycle especially the new products. Similarly, the demand of the
products will increase, hence the company a d its managements rises their products life cycle.
Organization also will import parts of their products from other international foreign
supplier aiding in raising the image of their product and more so, attracting a lot of customers
due to the global image.
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