Week 6 Assessment - Supply Chain Operations Plan

Wk 6 - Apply: Summative Assessment: Supply Chain Operations Plan

This assignment is intended to help you build a supply chain plan/diagram for a new business by analyzing factors that affect sourcing, logistics, metrics, suppliers, and risk. A grading rubric is used for this assignment. Ensure you address each element of the grading rubric thoroughly.

This assignment has a grading rubric 

Create a diagram of the supply chain of one or more products/services the organizations provides to its customers. Identify the specific suppliers, distributors, manufacturers/Service providers, wholesalers, retailers and end users (Customers).

NOTE: Do not submit as generic supply chain diagram. Use actual names of companies or products who participate in your chosen supply chain. 

 Use one of the following tools:

• Excel - Recommended
• PowerPoint
• Visio
• PictoGram
• PDF
• Other faculty-approved platform

Write an 875-word analysis of the supply chain. Include the following:

The focus of Supply Chain Management is to create a supply chain diagram, (Identify real world players who occupy the various positions of the supply chain), 

• Value Chain - identify the value each member of the supply chain provides to the customers perceived value of the product or service you provide.
• Flow - On your supply chain diagram identify the flow of raw materials, finished goods, communication, and finances.
• Inputs and outputs - Name specifically those items flowing through your supply chain.
• Risk - What are the risks to the efficiency of your chosen supply chain?
• Sourcing - From whom do you get your raw materials (suppliers), and how do you determine which suppliers to utilize?
• Location - How do you decide where you receive raw material in relationship to your manufacturing site and location relationship from manufacturing to customers? 
• Logistics (transportation) - How do raw materials travel from suppliers to manufacturing and finished goods from manufacturers to customers?