Description
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Logistics Management
ASSIGNMENT –3
Submission Date by students: 06/12/2025
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. Analyse and identify challenges and issues pertaining to logistical processes.
Assignment Workload:
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Critical Thinking
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.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).
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 havedrastically 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:
1. Why did major manufacturers adopt lean thinking and the Just-In-Time (JIT) model? (3 Marks)
2. Define the main categories of waste and why overproduction is the root cause of all waste that businesses need to prevent during production. (3 Marks)
3. The development of artificial intelligence. Is the agile supply chain a perfect notion for SCM in the future? Give examples to support your answer. (3 Marks)
4. APA style Reference (1.0 Marks)
Note:Each answer should be within the 300– 400 words limit.
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