GB570: Managing the Value Chain UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT

Target Corporation’s Supply Chain

The purpose of this assignment is to confirm understanding of a supply chain and its relationship to the demand chain by analyzing Target Corporation’s supply chain and assessing if it meets demand chain expectations.

Directions

• Use the APA formatted Microsoft Word document template in Doc Sharing as the starting point.

• Write a 5-6 page paper (exclusive of the Title and References pages) describing Target Corporation’s Supply Chain based upon the information in Chapters 6 and 7 of the Walters and Rainbird (2007 textbook (especially Figure 6.2 on page 155) and from additional resources from the Unit 2 reading materials.

• Include an assessment of the efficiency of Target’s supply chain and whether the Supply Chain supports its Demand Chain.

• Apply and cite at least three supportive, relevant and respected resources within your paper using APA in-text citation formatting and list the applied on a References page using APA formatting.