‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫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: 26/04/2025 @ 23:59
Course Name: Logistics Management

Student’s Name:

Course Code: MGT322

Student’s ID Number:

Semester: Second

CRN:
Academic Year:2024-25-2nd

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Students’ Grade: / 10

Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low

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‫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: Before week 12
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 increased pressure from customers and competitors in
manufacturing as well as the 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 a cheaper rate to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost-cutting,
increasing productivity levels, and quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers
(Raouf, 1994).
Increased global competition leads the industry to increase 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 increasingly global economy, cost-effective
manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University

‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم‬
‫الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية‬

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

To meet all the challenges organizations, try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques.
Management of organizations devotes their efforts to reducing manufacturing costs and improving the
quality of the 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 firms leads to improvement
of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).
Refer textbook chapter 7 or secondary data on the internet and answer the following questions.
Question:
1. What do you think about lean thinking? What is the reason behind the adoption of Lean Thinking
by manufacturing companies? (2 Marks)
2. Give a brief explanation of the main waste categories that businesses need to consider while
manufacturing. (2 Marks)
3. What are the benefits from Suppliers to end users for using lean thinking? Assess the reasons
(suitable examples), (2 Marks)
4. With the advent of artificial intelligence. The agile supply chain is a perfect concept for future
SCM? Give reasons with suitable examples. (2 Marks)
5. Why is overproduction considered to be the biggest waste for manufacturing companies? (1Mark)
6. Reference (1 Mark)
Each answer should be within the limit of 200- 250 words.
The Answer must follow the outline points below:
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Lean Thinking and JIT Concept

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Agile Supply chain

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Their Main functions

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Reasons with suitable Examples

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Reference

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Saudi Electronic University

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