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وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 3
Logistics Management (MGT 322)
Due Date: 06/12/2025 @ 23:59
Course Name:
Student’s Name:
Course Code: MGT322
Student’s ID Number:
Semester: First
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Academic Year:2025-26-1st
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Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade: / 10
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) 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.
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
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 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.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
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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