Category: Management

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
This assignment is an individual assi

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Due date for Assignment 2 is 30/03/2024
The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Logistics Management
ASSIGNMENT -2
Submission Date by students: 30/3/2024
Place of Submission: Students Grade Centre
Weight: 10 Marks
Learning Outcome:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of how global competitive environments are changing supply chain management and logistics practice.
2. Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.
3. Analyze and identify challenges and issues pertaining to logistical processes.
Assignment Workload:
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Critical Thinking
The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).
Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.
To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).
Read textbook chapter 7 or secondary data on the internet and answer the following questions.
Question:
Why big Manufacturing Companies adopted Lean Thinking and the JIT model? (3 Marks)
Discuss major types of Waste, and why overproduction is the biggest waste companies must keep in mind during production. (3 Marks)
With the initiation of artificial intelligence. The agile supply chain is a perfect concept for future SCM? Give reasons with examples. (3 Marks)
APA style Reference ((1.0 Marks)
Each answer should be within the limit of 300- 400 words.
The Answer must follow the outline points below:
Lean Thinking and JIT Concept
Agile Supply chain
Their Main functions
Reasons with suitable Examples
Reference
Ans 1: 400
Ans 2: 400
Ans 3: 400

Q1. How should Faisal respond? Why? What assumptions form the basis for your dec

Q1. How should Faisal respond? Why? What assumptions form the basis for your decision? (2.5Marks)
Q2. What are the short- and long-term costs and benefits of each alternative for Faisal? (2.5Marks)
Q3. Do you think Amina is a good leader? If yes, then Why? (2.5Marks)
Q4. What would you do if you found yourself in a similar position at your job? (2.5Marks)

Company : Alphabet Corp
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Company : Alphabet Corp
Tool Help Videos:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8aiE-sSuFe3W_t97H5ECdMt5uSDNhyOQ
Your cover page should include the following:
Your Name
Your Major
Company Name
Dates the project covers (ex. 2010-2019)
MGT 4810
Spring 2020
Executive Summary
The summary should consist of three (3) paragraphs. A proper paragraph has at LEAST three sentences. The executive summary should be no less than 500 words.
Paragraph One
Tell me about your company. I may not be familiar with the organization you are researching; this will help me understand your organization.
Paragraph Two
Tell me about this project. In YOUR OWN WORDS, tell me about this project.
Paragraph Three
Tell me what you learned from this project. Do not tell me about your company, but what skills did you develop from this project. (Excel, time management, etc. )
Table of Contents

The table of contents must include page numbers and titles of the tools. Please do not use Tool 1 page 4. It should read, Tool 1: Historical Analysis and the appropriate page number.

INSTRUCTIONS
Critical Thinking Assignment Creating a successful performance mana

INSTRUCTIONS
Critical Thinking Assignment Creating a successful performance management communication plan is vital. There are six basic components associated with a performance management communication plan, which can be reviewed in Figure 7-1, page 199 in your textbook. (I will atached the figure for you)
For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation for an organization of your choice, which is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this communication plan, which will be presented to new organizational employees (during orientation), address the following:

Provide information about your organization (specifically detailing its mission, vision, and values).
Explain the importance of performance management and why your organization values performance management.
Explain how the performance management system utilized is aligned with your organization’s strategy. Note: You can suggest a performance management system or use the one that the company currently has.
Explain what type of performance management system you believe is best for the organization and justify why.
Explain the benefits of the performance management system to newly hired employees. Specifically, address the question, “What’s in it for me?”
Explain how the performance management system, for your selected organization, works.
Critique the organization’s performance management system (which is currently used by the company or the system that you selected). Note the benefits and drawbacks of this system and offer recommendations for improvements.
Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements
Be 11 slides in length, with a minimum of eight content slides in addition to one title slide, an agenda slide, and at least one reference slide.
Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles in the speaker’s notes as well as the reference slide. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these sources and should be your primary resource for conducting research. (It is very important to write detail in speakers notes which located below each slides)
Presentation notes are required for each slide (Very important) and should be put in the speaker’s notes section to support the slide content. These can be part of the presentation or delivered as a separate document. If you opt for the former, be aware that the presentation cannot be submitted in PDF format, which does not make notes visible to the instructor. (Very Important)
Reach out to your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.
Follow APA and Saudi Electronic University writing standards

Please make sure the answers are 300 words each question and 5 references
Go th

Please make sure the answers are 300 words each question and 5 references
Go through the given case scenario
‘There must be a better way of running this place!’ said Dean Hammond, recently recruited General Manager of Boys and Boden, as he finished a somewhat stressful conversation with a complaining customer, a large and loyal local building contractor.
‘We had six weeks to make their special staircase, and we are still late! I’ll have to persuade one of the joiners to work overtime this weekend to get everything ready for Monday. We never seem to get complaints about quality, as our men always do an excellent job … but there is usually a big backlog of work, and something always gets finished late, so how should we set priorities? We could do the most profitable work first, or the work for our biggest customers, or the jobs which are most behind on. In practice, we try to satisfy everyone as best we can, but inevitably someone’s order will be late. In theory, each job should be quite profitable, since we build into the price a big allowance for waste, and for timber defects. And we know the work content of almost any task we would have to do; this is the basis of our estimating system. But, overall, the department is disappointingly unprofitable, and most problems seem to end up with a higher-than-anticipated cost, and with late deliveries!’
Boys and Boden was a small, successful, privately-owned timber and building materials merchant based in a small town. Over the years it had established a large Joinery Department, which made doors, windows, staircases and other timber products, all to the exact special requirements of the customers, mostly comprising numerous local and regional builders. In addition, the joiners would cut and prepare special orders of timber, such as non-standard sections and special profiles, including old designs of skirting board, sometimes at very short notice, and often even while the customers waited. Typically, for larger joinery items, the customer provided simple dimensioned sketches of the required products. These were then passed to the central Estimating and Quotations Department which, in conjunction with the Joinery Manager, calculated costs and prepared a written quotation, which was faxed or posted to the customer. This first stage was normally completed within two or three days, but on occasions could take a week or more. On receipt of an order, the original sketches and estimating details were passed back to the Joinery Manager, who roughly scheduled them into his manufacturing plan, allocating them to individual craftsmen as each became available. Most of the joiners were capable of making any product, and enjoyed the wide variety of challenging work.
The Joinery Department appeared congested and somewhat untidy, but everyone believed that this was acceptable and normal for job shops, since there was no single flow route for materials. Whatever the design of the item being made, it was normal for the joiner to select the required bulk timber from the storage building across the yard. This roughly-sawn timber was then prepared using a planer-thicknesser machine which gave it smooth, parallel surfaces. After that, the joiners would use a variety of processes, depending on product. The timber could be machined into different cross-sectional shapes, cut into component lengths using a radial arm saw, joints were formed by hand tools, or using a morticing machine, and so on. Finally the products would be glued and assembled with screws and nails, sanded smooth by hand or by machine, and treated with preservatives, stains or varnishes if required. All the large and more expensive floor-standing machines were grouped together by type (for example, saws) or were single pieces of equipment shared by all 10 joiners. Every joiner also owned a complete set of hand tools which they guarded and cared for with pride. Dean described what one might observe on a random visit to the Joinery Department:
‘One or two long staircases partly assembled, and crossing several work areas; large door frames on trestles being assembled; stacks of window components for a large contract being prepared and jointed, and so on. Offcuts and wood shavings are scattered around the work area, but are periodically cleared when they get in the way or form a hazard. The joiners try to fit in with each other over the use of machinery, so are often working on several, part-finished items at once. Varnishing or staining has to be done when it’s quiet, for example towards the end of the working day or at weekends, or even outside, to avoid sawdust contamination. Long offcuts are stacked around the workshop, to be used up on any future occasion when these lengths or sections are required. However, it is often easier to take a new length of timber for each job, so the offcuts do tend to build up over time. Unfortunately, everything I have described is getting worse as we get busier … our sales are increasing so the system is getting more congested. The joiners are almost climbing over each other to complete their work. Unfortunately, despite having more orders, the department has remained stubbornly unprofitable!
’Whilst analysing in detail the lack of profit, we were horrified to find that, for the majority of orders, the actual times booked by the joiners exceeded the estimated times by up to 50 per cent. Sometimes this was clearly attributable to the inexperience of newly employed joiners. Although fully trained and qualified, they might lack the experience needed to complete a complex job in the time an Estimator would expect; but there had been no feedback of this to the individual. We then put one of these men on doors only; having overcome his initial reluctance, he has become an enthusiastic “door expert” and gets closely involved in quotations too, so now he always does his work within the time estimates! However, the main time losses were found to be the result of general delays caused by congestion, interference, double-handling, and rework to rectify in-process damage. Moreover, we found that a joiner walked an average of nearly 5 km a day, usually carrying around heavy bits of wood.
‘When I did my operations management course on my MBA, the professor described the application of cellular manufacturing and JIT. From what I can remember, the idea seems to be to get better flow, reducing the times and distances in the process, and thus achieving quicker throughput times. That is just what we needed, but these concepts were explained in the context of high-volume, repetitive production of bicycles, whereas all the products we make are one-offs. However, although we do make a lot of different staircases, they all use roughly the same process steps:
1 Cutting timber to width and length
2 Sanding
3 Machining
4 Tenoning
5 Manual assembly (glue and wedges)
‘We have a lot of unused factory floor space, so it would be relatively easy to set up a self-contained staircase cell. There is a huge demand for specially-made stairs in this region, but also a lot of competing small joinery businesses with low overheads, which can beat us on price and lead-time. So we go to a lot of trouble quoting for stairs, but only win about 20 per cent of the business. If we could get the cell idea to work, we should be more competitive on price and delivery, hence winning more orders. At least that is the theory. I know we will need a lot more volume to justify establishing the cell, so it’s really a case of whether to construct a cell in anticipation of higher demand, or to try to win more business first. To do the latter, we would have to reduce our selling prices and lead-times, and then allocate more joiners to complete the higher volumes of orders until we had enough work to set up the cell. I personally favour setting up the cell first so that we can have a “capacity leads demand” strategy.’

Learning Outcomes:
Recognize an understanding of the overall marketing concepts

Learning Outcomes:
Recognize an understanding of the overall marketing concepts, goals and strategies within the context of organizations goals and strategies. (CLO-1)
Demonstrate the ability to formulate marketing strategies that incorporate psychological and sociological factors which influence consumer’s decision. (CLO-3)
Develop critical and analytical thinking necessary to overcome challenges and issues of marketing in the changing global environment. (CLO-4)
Part-A: Case Study (Max Marks-7)
Read the Chapter Case Study “McDonald’s—Colonel Sanders would be Proud, KFC is a Global Brand” from Chapter No- 8 entitled “Global Marketing” given in your textbook/E-book – “Marketing” (8th ed.) by Dhruv. Grewal and Michael Levy (2022) and answer the following Questions:
While expanding globally, which sociocultural factors you think have affected KFC?
On what basis you may differentiate the growth strategies taken by KFC in the United States and China?
Based on you understanding of the BRIC nations, should KFC consider expanding more aggressively into (a) India, (b) Brazil, and (c) Russia?What national features of these countries would provide reasons to support or contradict such an expansion strategy?

Part-B:Critical Thinking(Max Marks-3)

Think about the various soft drinks that you know from your local market (like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7-Up, etc.). Critically examine how do these various brands position themselves in the Saudi Arabian market? (CH-9)
Important Notes: –
Avoid Plagiarism.
Support your answers with course material concepts from the textbook and scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles etc.
Need references and use APA style for writing the references.

Adhere to the conditions contained in the file
””no plagiarism””
don’t forge

Adhere to the conditions contained in the file
””no plagiarism””
don’t forget the references
Solve in same file

Learning Goal: I’m working on a management multi-part question and need the expl

Learning Goal: I’m working on a management multi-part question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.
-need tutor to help complete APA assignment
-original explanations, concise answers, and outside references/resources required (no plagiarism)
**(2 scholarly sources needed)
-Word format only
-please follow assignment instructions on first and last page
-please follow word count; answers should be appropriate to weighted marks + count (5 marks per question)
-font must be Times New Roman size 12, double spaced; cover page required
**please see attached assignment instructions in the file below

HSBC in China
Your assignment this week will focus on the case study HSBC in Chi

HSBC in China
Your assignment this week will focus on the case study HSBC in China (p. 563) . We revisit the country of China, this time to look at the financial and banking sectors. China acceded to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, which was important to integrate China into the global economy. The WTO requirements guaranteed China entry into the important financial sector, setting it on a course to become a financial powerhouse.
A case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering the specific questions, develop your proposed solution by following these five steps:
Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course module, which apply to the situation described in the case study.
Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of the module. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current module. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an important aspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.
Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.
Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-life examples or cases from textbooks.
Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will already have the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add the details and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.
Reflecting on this week’s content focusing on ethical leadership, strategy, and alliances, develop an essay responding to the following questions.
How has HSBC adapted its global strategy to operate in China, both before and after China’s WTO accession?
Discuss HSBC’s strategy for entering and operating in other emerging markets. Where has it found success, and where has it faced setbacks? Why?
What are the pros and cons of HSBC’s “Managing for Growth” strategy?
For companies that are participating in Saudi Vision 2030, what strategies and tools might they adopt to manage political risks?
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be 5-6 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
1.1: Identify and evaluate the significant trade

Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
1.1: Identify and evaluate the significant trade agreements affecting global commerce
Skills:
2.1: Analyse the effects of culture, politics and economic systems in the context of international business
Values:
3.1: Carry out effective self-evaluation through discussing economic systems in the international business context

Case study
Please read Case 6: “The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Is Dead: Long Live the CPTPP” available in your book (International business: Competing in the global marketplace (13th ed.), at page no.634, and answer the following questions:

Case study Question(s):
Explain the proposed benefits of the TPP.(Marks: 2.5)
What were the potential drawbacks of the U.S. entering the TPP? What would be the drawbacks to other nations? Discuss.(Marks: 2.5)
Is the CPTTP a threat to American economic interests? Discuss.(Marks: 2.5)
Why do you think the 11 remaining signatories went ahead with a revised deal after the United States withdrew? Give logic in support of your answer. (Marks: 2.5)

Important Notes:
This is an individual assignment.
All references must be cited using APA format. This includes both in-text citations and the reference list at the end of the document.
Originality, Similarity and Plagiarism Check: Your work must be original. All papers will be submitted through SafeAssign software to check for similarity and plagiarism. Any instance of academic dishonesty will result in a grade of zero for the assignment. No exceptions and no second chances!
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