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QSO 330 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
The final project for this course is the creation of a supply chain evaluation. Supply chain management (SCM) is a holistic view of a company’s efforts to source, procure, receive, store, and deliver products. These products can be raw materials for a manufacturing process, consumer goods for a retail chain, or a collection of items that will be joined in some way before ultimate delivery to the customer. In the global economic environment, SCM takes on an increasing level of complexity as companies attempt to reduce costs, drive efficiency, and remain compliant with the corporate social responsibilities that consumers demand.
For this project, you will act as the lead consultant to the company you choose in Module One as it attempts to improve its overall supply chain. Your ultimate recommendation will be based on your analysis of the SCM and your insight on how to improve demand forecasting, sourcing, transportation, and warehousing options to optimize the overall operation. This project will showcase your ability to balance the competing requirements of reducing cost and increasing efficiency while remaining at the forefront of sustainable operations for the industry. Your analysis and recommendations will be formatted into a supply chain evaluation for your company’s executive team to use to optimize their supply chain management in this very demanding environment.
The project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three and Five. The final product will be submitted in Module Seven.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Analyze operational and logistical issues related to supply chain management using appropriate quantitative and qualitative methodologies
Determine pertinent issues and potential constraints for problem solving regarding supply chain management
Develop distribution solutions based on supply chain management principles that address network inefficiencies
Recommend appropriate cost-saving strategies and risk mitigation plans for supply chain implementation
Directions
Using the company you choose in Module One, create a supply chain evaluation in which you assess your company in terms of its demand forecasting, sourcing, transportation, and warehousing processes in order to develop SCM recommendations that will reduce costs and risks to the business operation. It is strongly recommended that you thoroughly review the prompt below before you read the case study, and you should continue to refer to the prompt as you read. You should format your analysis and recommendations as if you were a consultant hired by your chosen company.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Executive Summary: In this section, explain the purpose of your brief and highlight key information and findings that will aid the understanding of the more in-depth analysis and recommendations to follow.
Demand Forecasting: In this section, first assess the supply and demand side of your company’s product flow, including the customer’s needs and the supplier’s capabilities, in order to then identify potential alignments that will keep cost and waste at a minimum.
Evaluation
Analyze your company’s suppliers in terms of their abilities to meet the demand of customers during steady-state and peak operations. How effective are each supplier’s inventory reorder points and economic order quantities? Support your analysis with quantitative examples.
Additionally, describe demand-forecasting constraints that exist within the supply chain. For example, consider the distance of the stores and the compatibility of the products in terms of shipping, storage, and so on.
Recommendations: Based on your evaluation, recommend strategies for better aligning the supply and demand side of your company’s product flow that will keep cost and waste at a minimum.
Sourcing: In this section, first evaluate the network sourcing strategy of your company in order to then identify possible areas in need of improvement that will leave room for future expansion.
Evaluation: Assess the network sourcing strategy and determine whether or not the number and quality of suppliers is the optimal mix for the operation. To what extent do the suppliers meet steady-state and peak demand? Are they consistently providing products that meet or exceed your company’s quality standards? Defend your assessment with examples.
Recommendations
Recommend a strategy to optimize the sourcing network that takes into account operations and leaves room for future expansion. Be sure to consider any alternative sources of materials available to the organization in your response.
Recommend a standard procedure for vetting suppliers to ensure that they are compliant with the corporate social responsibility guidelines of your company.
Make sure that you have recommended the best sourcing practices for your company using appropriate quantitative methods.
Transportation: In this section, first consider the effectiveness of your company’s transportation network in order to then determine possible cost savings without sacrificing performance.
Evaluation
Identify constraints within the transportation network and discuss the impact they will have on the overall supply chain operation. Be sure to provide specific examples to illustrate.
Analyze the transportation network and determine whether or not the correct modes of transportation are being used based on time, cost, and quantity.
Recommendations: Make recommendations on how to improve the transportation network given the constraints you identified, using specific examples to illustrate and justify your claims.
Warehousing: In this section, first analyze your company’s warehousing network to in order to then determine requirements and develop recommendations for adequately meeting present and future storage needs.
Evaluation
Analyze the existing warehousing infrastructure to determine if the warehousing network adequately meets storage needs. Additionally, consider eventual expansion requirements of your company’s operation. What are the constraints or restrictions involved in the possible locations?
Identify considerations for special handling of hazardous materials and describe their impact on warehousing for the mix of products that your company’s SCM is handling, using specific examples.
Recommendations
Determine warehousing requirements that will ensure adequate availability of resources for the organization. Support your proposed requirements with given production and demand elements from the scenario.
Based on your determination of requirements, recommend a warehouse design that will minimize movements between functions and reduce costs. Explain how your recommendation will drive this improvement throughout the network, considering facility costs, inventory carrying costs, personnel costs, and equipment costs.
Conclusions: In the final section, take a critical look at your various recommendations in order to develop final conclusions for your company.
Prioritize your demand-forecasting, sourcing, transportation, and warehousing recommendations based on efficiency gain, cost, and sustainability.
Discuss the feasibility of your recommendations based on supply chain constraints of your company. Justify your claims with specific evidence.
Milestones
Milestone One: Demand Forecasting and Sourcing
In Module Three, you will submit an assessment of the supply and demand of your company and product flow, as discussed in the case you selected in Module One. You will also evaluate the network sourcing strategy of your company to identify areas that may be in need of improvement and will leave room for future expansion. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric.
Milestone Two: Transportation and Warehousing
In Module Five, you will submit an evaluation of your company’s transportation and warehousing networks, focusing on constraints, modes of transportation, infrastructure, and special handling requirements. You will also make recommendations to improve transportation. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.
Final Submission: Supply Chain Evaluation
In Module Seven, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the rubric criteria of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric.
What to Submit
Your supply chain evaluation should be 12–15 pages with one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and APA citations when applicable.

I need a business plan for my company (already has paperwork) so we can purchase a building/equipment to start a basketball facility/after school programming. Here is a little of what I have. I need the entire business plan formatted for Detroit MI.
Executive Summary
H.O.Y.A.S.
Inc. will serve Metro Detroit area children, helping to provide all youth,
especially the disadvantaged, the skills necessary to succeed in life using a
sports oriented program.
H.O.Y.A.S.
Inc. is a non-profit organization established in 2008, with a focus on
positively impacting today’s youth.  
H.O.Y.A.S. was founded on the belief that every child can excel in life
with the proper time invested and consistent guidance. We mentor and coach
children ages 5 to 18, locally in the metro Detroit area with the intent of
expanding nationally.
Objectives
1.  To
provide advanced mentoring creating a positive peer culture through the
establishment of an environment of love, accountability, positive role modeling
and a curriculum that fosters discipline and self-control.
2. Create working relationships with 30
surrounding schools by the year 2010.
3.
General Company Description
Mission statement: To provide all youth the skills
necessary to succeed in life using a sports oriented program. Our goal is to
give every child a better opportunity to succeed than what they had before we
encountered them, or would have had without intervention.
Form
of ownership:
H.O.Y.A.S Inc. is a non-profit corporation.
Company history: H.O.Y.A.S. Inc. is a non-profit
organization established in 2012, with a focus on positively impacting today’s
youth.  H.O.Y.A.S. was founded on the
belief that every child can excel in life with the proper time invested and
consistent guidance. We mentor and coach children ages 5 to 18, locally in the
metro Detroit area with the intent of expanding nationally.
Most important strengths and core competencies:
In sports, learning the fundaments are keys to continued success on the court
or the field.  It is our goal to instill
the life skills or “Basic Fundamentals” needed to succeed in the game using
those same keys to help with life skills.
Long
term goals:
Long-term goals for the H.O.Y.A.S.
Program are as follows:
1.         Purchase/rent
a building to open a recreational center for practices and activities for the
community.
2.         Purchase/lease
2 vehicles (passenger vans) for traveling to school/afterschool program/leagues/tournaments.
3.         Expand the program nationally. 

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSlides 8-9 Marketing
Describe the company’s marketing strategies. [For faculty only: COLLABORATION: Student clearly demonstrates how marketing strategies foster employee collaboration.]
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
Last Slide: References Minimum of three additional APA formatted sources for a total of six references. Proper spelling, grammar, and organization are u
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSlides 10-11 Production and Operations
Describe how the company manages production and operations. [For faculty only: DECISION-MAKING: Student clearly demonstrates an understanding of how the company manages their workforce in operations and production activities.]
10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSlides 12-13 Finance
Student clearly demonstrates an understanding of how the company manages their financial resources. [For faculty only: DECISION-MAKING: Student clearly demonstrates an understanding of how the company manages financial resources.]
15 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSlides 14-15 Competitive Strategy
Describe how the company creates a sustainable co
mpetitive advantage through improving quality. [For faculty only: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Student clearly demonstrates how management fosters improving quality and sustainability of a product or service.]

Journal objective: International trade can have significant effects on domestic markets. For use in the 
assignment, identify a good that the United States imports and a good the United States exports. 
Length: Your submission is required to be at least 2-pages and not more than 5 pages in length, not 
including the title page and references.
References: A minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references are required, any additional resources used are required to be scholarly/academic in nature. APA formatting is required to be used for citations and references. Use this definition to define the term in the instructions. 
Definitions: Scholarly journals are sometimes called academic journals. The terms are often used interchangeably to describe the same type of publication. These types of publications are published by universities, academic institutions, professional associations, and commercial enterprises and are compiled by scholars, academics, and other subject authorities.
Details: In your paper, include the following:
Introduction
supply or demand for the particular good,
the competitiveness of that good’s market, and
how the change in competitiveness affects market structure as well as equilibrium price and quantity.
Stepping away from the import/export examples, describe how opening up to trade specifically affects a domestic monopoly. Include an explanation, using game theory, of how even a single additional competitor can lead to a market outcome similar to perfect competition.
Conclusion

READING ASSIGNMENT
Quality Management (Knowles) Chapter 6 and 10
EFQM. (n.d.). The EFQM Excellence model. Retrieved from  https://www.itqm.ch/uploads/files/EFQM%20Brochures/ITQM_EFQM_MODEL%202020_BROCHURE_EN.pdf
Learning Journal
In the learning journal, you should record your activities, and record problems you may have encountered, as well as your notes and thoughts about the material. In addition, you should consider the following questions for reflection:
In your organization, how can you contribute to the quality of delivery? Which skills or behaviors can you develop individually to improve collective excellence?
Please answer these questions in 300 words or more. Your answer should reflect your personal experience and should be thoughtful and introspective.

This is an assignment for my business grade 12 class. Kindly, in this assignment, choose 
“Microsoft”  as the company and please do not exceed 1000 words. Thank you.

INT 220 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
In this course, you have explored the elements of a market profile, including cultural, political, and economic aspects, and looked at the legal and regulatory market considerations. In this milestone, you will complete the next part of your course project by creating a market profile for your chosen country and creating legal and regulatory considerations.
Scenario
You are a business analyst working at a small, domestic organization that produces high-quality cell phone cases. Your organization has begun to see its sales flatten in the domestic market. While the organization is not losing money, leadership would like to explore options to continue to grow. One option that leadership has noticed competitors attempting is entering international markets.
You have been asked to examine the benefits, drawbacks, and key considerations for your organization to enter one of the global markets below, and summarize your findings in a business brief for leadership.
Continue to use your selected market from Milestone One. As a reminder, the options for international markets are:
Nigeria
Prompt
In this milestone, you will continue to use the Business Brief Template (located in the Guidelines for Submission section of this document) to complete Section Two. Use course resources as well as the INT 220 Library Guide to support your responses.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Market Profile: Explore and explain the cultural, political, and economic environment of your selected market to help inform future business decisions regarding expansion from the domestic market.
Cultural Profile: Compare and contrast important cultural elements of your selected market against those in the domestic market, including communication, dimensions of culture, attitudes, common business etiquette and practices, and at least five other important aspects of culture.
Political and Economic Profile: Compare and contrast important political and economic factors for your selected market against those in the domestic market, including political systems and ideologies, current leaders, economic measures or characteristics used in classification, and government intervention on trade.
Legal and Regulatory Profile: Compare and contrast important legal and regulatory requirements of your selected market against those in the domestic market, including trade restrictions, regulations of products or services, legal processes for business transactions, and import restrictions or documentation.
What to Submit
Template: Business Brief
Submit the template as a 500- to 650-word Microsoft Word document. As you completed Section One for Milestone One, the template you submit for this milestone should have Section One and Section Two completed. Sources should be cited according to APA style

Craft the external message that you will use to address the problem you identified in the final project case study provided. In doing so, you will specify the mediums you will use to deliver the message, explain why these mediums are important, and outline the target audience. Additionally, you will explain how the message promotes the organization’s strategic goals. Finally, identify potential sources of conflict that may arise as a result of your external communication. Consider the message you are communicating as well as the mediums used.

Assignment Details
Your organization recently merged with another organization. The HR manager of compensation and benefits, the new leadership team resulting from the merger, has come to you with concerns pertaining to the current compensation policies. The senior leadership team has specifically expressed concern over the ability of the organization to hire and retain a competitive workforce due to outdated policies. Your task is to research and develop an updated compensation philosophy that aligns with the new core values of the organization, which focus on customer service, quality production, employee recruitment, and retention. You have been given 3 months to complete your analysis and present your recommendations to the leadership team.
Your presentation should include the following considerations:
What is the role and benefit to an organization of a compensation plan?
Provide a minimum of 3 factors to consider in identifying the needs of a compensation package.
What type of pay system do you recommend and why? Review the pay theories in Chapter 6 of your course textbook, and identify the 1 that bests support your pay system recommendation.
In addition to your pay recommendation, provide 2 additional policy recommendations. Include in your recommendation the legal implications that you have considered in making your recommendations.
Prepare a presentation that will be shared with the senior leadership team. The presentation should focus on practices that the organization can implement (a minimum of 15 slides with notes).
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 15 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Identify two key strategic decisions made by your current team, department, or organization. How could those decisions have been enhanced by optimization models? Support your rationale with evidence from readings or external research.
I currently work for United healthcare. hopefully these examples can help.
1. They decided to add more case managers to the team to increase work productivity.
2. they have also demoted or removed positions that serve little purpose.