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You are to build an Operations/Supply Chain Management Plan for the company you used in Assignment 2. The company was an actual business either a product or a service with sales between $500,000 to and $10 million. The purpose of the Signature Assignment is to have students show the entire supply chain (in graphics as well as an 8 – 10-page paper) of how materials are sourced, developed, built, packaged, stored, packaged, transported and stored and to develop the customer experience feedback loop. You are to include sustainability issues as well as cost of goods sold (COGS). This paper is not just to report on an existing company (although you must do that). Additionally you are to identify a problem that this company is experiencing or an opportunity that the company might consider. This problem or opportunity may be included in a Recommendations section for this paper, but the recommendations section of the paper is not to be more than one page of the eight to ten pages of the paper). Part of this assignment will be a visual display of the supply chain for your chosen organization. See the PowerPoint in Week 8 documents for lots of options for what a supply chain can look like. You are not to choose one of the visual displays on the PowerPoint, but to research and analyze your chosen company and build a supply chain (based upon your research) of what the company you have chosen supply chain looks like. The visual display should in some ways connect with the eight to ten page paper and you may refer to the visual display in the paper.
Processes to follow for writing. Be sure to follow all APA guidelines and review sample APA paper and other writing helps found in Course Information, under “Writing Helps.” You are to follow all APA guidelines, use Times New Roman 12 font. Use APA headings as below:
You will have at least two level 2 headings under each level 1 heading and at least one of the level 2 headings will have a citation. The level 1 headings include at a minimum:
Introduction
Management Plan for XXX Company (includes, company website, industry information, purpose of the management plan, problem or opportunity to be explored, key descriptions of the product or service under review, etc.) This paper will have a minimum of fourteen level 1 headings (which are highlighted above in the graph)
Demographic of customer (use gov. data) https://www.usa.gov/statistics
Design of the Supply Chain (design for quality, delivery speed, deliverability reliability, or low cost and why which one of these four desirability’s will take precedence over the others based upon mission and vision and industry standards)
Material Resource Planning (MRP) (with a list of key suppliers with their websites, etc. connect plan to company mission and vision (cite).
Supplier Relationship Management Plan, (key terms and conditions)
Production (how much, where, when, who, how produced)
Packaging (what, how much, why, how this meets with the customer need)
Transportation (how, cost, why, does it meet customer expectations)
Cost of Goods Sold
CRM (Customer Relationship Management Plan)
Sustainability and CSR Plan (customer experience feedback loop)
Cost of Goods Sold
Recommendation
Conclusion
References