Interview a Purchasing and Supply Management Professional

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Interview a Purchasing and Supply Management Professional 
Interview a purchasing and supply management professional in a private or public organization
(for example a purchasing and supply associate, a Chief Purchasing Officer, or a business
manager in a K-12 school system).
Write a 4–5-page paper that describes:
The line of business, mission, and goals of the organization the professional works for. Describe
these items briefly.
The professional’s functions and job responsibilities, educational background, professional
experiences, personal challenges, job achievement, and fulfillment.
The operational and strategic objectives of the supply and purchasing department.
How the above supply objectives align with the organizational mission and goals.
The format of the report is to be as follows:
Typed, double spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides.
Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response.
In addition to the 4–5-pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain
the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date.

Purchasing & Procurement

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Topic: Purchasing & Procurement

 

Paper details:

Resource: Pg. 169-187 of Ch. 7 of Purchasing and Supply Management (included in the “Materials”) You are a Supply Chain Manager of a building supply company. Your company sells building materials to building contractors, home improvement construction companies, as well as the do-it-yourself weekend project homeowners. You have been struggling with the supplier of roofing nails for several months and you are fast approaching the peak roofing season. The supplier has been late on delivering orders and when orders are delivered the boxes are damaged and the quantities of nails in the boxes are inaccurate. Each box should have 1,000 nails, but you are getting complaints from your customers that they are only receiving partial quantities in the boxes. The situation with the supplier is getting so bad that some of your major customers are threatening to go to another building supply company for roofing nails. You have to get this situation under control before you lose much needed seasonal sales! Create a supplier performance improvement plan. Incorporate Lean Six Sigma methodology into the problem solving and corrective action process. Include the steps that need to be taken to identify the root cause, potential containment, and corrective action. Include how you will monitor the supplier’s compliance to corrective action, and explain whether or not the corrective action is effective.

Marketing- Simulation Paper Summary

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Marketing- Simulation Paper Summary 
In one sentence, the paper is all about explaining *why you did what you did* – it’s as
straightforward as that. I’m grading you on the quality of your explanations. The more
thoughtful/insightful/analytical your explanations are, the more points you will receive.
Paper Guidelines
For each of the six quarters you need to extensively address/explain the following:
Major decisions made for this quarter (what did you do?) and most importantly a thorough
explanation as to why each decision was made (why did you do it?)
After you receive the simulation results for each quarter (there are none for Quarter 1), describe
your company’s results in depth (how did it turn out?) – I want you to analyze to find
opportunities in your performance with respect to:
Brand/ad/price judgments for each product
Number of sales force per market per product
Number of ads per product per market
Major Competitors’ results for the above
Balanced scorecard results
So, reflecting upon your strategy, detail the changes you would make to your strategic decisions
and explain why this would improve your strategy and results (what did you learn from these
results and how can you improve your decision making strategies for next quarter?).
We will combine Q1 and Q2 since there are no results to discuss for Q1. Therefore your paper
should have five sections to it (Q1+Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6). Each of these sections will constitute
10 of the 50 points.
I strongly suggest you write the paper as you go. While this is obvious, it will truly show as your
explanations will be significantly stronger than if you wait until the end to put the paper together.
Formatting Instructions
NONE – This paper is meant to capture your thoughts as to how you are proceeding with the
simulation as well as reflecting back upon your actions so that we may learn from any mistakes. I
do not care about the format, just the content (FYI, headings throughout the paper make it much
easier to read). Type size, type font, margins single-/double-spaced are all irrelevant to me, as I
am grading solely on the quality of your explanations of your decisions.
I don’t have any set page-length in mind but I would argue that for this assignment if you spent a
paragraph or two on every quarter, you wouldn’t be supplying me with an *extensive* analysis of
your simulation decisions/results. For comparison, decent papers average 12 pages, doublespaced.
Helpful Hints
Picture yourself in front of a board of directors to explain how you’re spending their money. They
want in-depth explanations of *why* you’re doing what you’re doing. SO DO I. You need to sell
me on your strategic thought process.
Failure to thoroughly discuss how your competitors’ actions affect your actions will kill your score.
Oh yeah, did I mention that you should write your paper as you go? I did? Well, it’s important
enough to mention again!

Finance Risk Management and Ethical Analysis

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Finance Risk Management and Ethical Analysis 
Required 
Your risk management and ethical analysis should analyze the prevalent risks associated with
your corporations, the challenges financial managers face in trying
to attain short- and long-term goals, and the various considerations that must be made during
financial decision making.

Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business

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Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business 
Goals: This assignment allows you (either individually or as a member of a group) to closely
examine a topic of choosing so long as it can be directly related to social,political, and/or ethical
aspect of business. You are expected to find a topic that inspires you, one in which you are
actually interested in doing-in-depth, individual research.
Structure: You may choose one of two structure: (1) take a stand on the issue(s) or, (2) present in
a balanced manner both sides of the issue(s). In either case you must have done balanced and
thorough research (crazy uncle Bob is not a legitimate source), and you may draw on various
concepts from lectures, section and from course readings.
You are expected to write clearly and efficiently. Grammar and spelling do count. This is true both
in this class and in life.
Format: This paper is expected to be a 8 page per person not including: (1) an optional appendix
for graphs or other notes, and a required bibliography for source material. Please use 12-point
Times New Roman, double-spaced with 1′ margins.
Grading: Do not expect that this assignment will be graded lightly. The term paper represents a
significant portion of your final grade, and as such you are expected to perform well. You will be
graded on content (depth of analysis, persuasiveness and relevance to the course) and style
(clarity, grammar, punctuation, and spelling).

Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business

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Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business 
Goals: This assignment allows you (either individually or as a member of a group) to closely
examine a topic of choosing so long as it can be directly related to social,political, and/or ethical
aspect of business. You are expected to find a topic that inspires you, one in which you are
actually interested in doing-in-depth, individual research.
Structure: You may choose one of two structure: (1) take a stand on the issue(s) or, (2) present in
a balanced manner both sides of the issue(s). In either case you must have done balanced and
thorough research (crazy uncle Bob is not a legitimate source), and you may draw on various
concepts from lectures, section and from course readings.
You are expected to write clearly and efficiently. Grammar and spelling do count. This is true both
in this class and in life.
Format: This paper is expected to be a 8 page per person not including: (1) an optional appendix
for graphs or other notes, and a required bibliography for source material. Please use 12-point
Times New Roman, double-spaced with 1′ margins.
Grading: Do not expect that this assignment will be graded lightly. The term paper represents a
significant portion of your final grade, and as such you are expected to perform well. You will be
graded on content (depth of analysis, persuasiveness and relevance to the course) and style
(clarity, grammar, punctuation, and spelling).

Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business

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Social, Political and Ethical Environment of Business 
Goals: This assignment allows you (either individually or as a member of a group) to closely
examine a topic of choosing so long as it can be directly related to social,political, and/or ethical
aspect of business. You are expected to find a topic that inspires you, one in which you are
actually interested in doing-in-depth, individual research.
Structure: You may choose one of two structure: (1) take a stand on the issue(s) or, (2) present in
a balanced manner both sides of the issue(s). In either case you must have done balanced and
thorough research (crazy uncle Bob is not a legitimate source), and you may draw on various
concepts from lectures, section and from course readings.
You are expected to write clearly and efficiently. Grammar and spelling do count. This is true both
in this class and in life.
Format: This paper is expected to be a 8 page per person not including: (1) an optional appendix
for graphs or other notes, and a required bibliography for source material. Please use 12-point
Times New Roman, double-spaced with 1′ margins.
Grading: Do not expect that this assignment will be graded lightly. The term paper represents a
significant portion of your final grade, and as such you are expected to perform well. You will be
graded on content (depth of analysis, persuasiveness and relevance to the course) and style
(clarity, grammar, punctuation, and spelling).

Impacts on Staff of a Change in Business Practice of Emirates Airlines, British Airways, or Qatar Airways.

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Managing People in Aviation 
Impacts on Staff of a Change in Business Practice of Qatar Airways.

Unit learning outcomes 1           Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding·         Demonstrate coherent understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organisational performance in the commercial air transport industry
2           Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
·         Describe, analyse, and demonstrate the ability to develop and motivate people to work efficiently and to resolve conflict situations in the commercial air transport industry.
 

 

What am I required to do in this assignment?
You are required to write a 1000 words report (+/- 10%) examining and explaining the impacts on staff of a change in business practice of Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways. You are to examine and explain how staff are impacted by a decision taken by the airline, taking into account the specific staff roles in Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways.The decisions you may want to consider are the following: growth or decline of the activity, new products or markets, change of structure, change of services, responding to competition, responding to a major crisis, etc…
The impacts on the staff you may want to consider are motivation, staff turnover, performance, conflict, illness, absenteeism, skills, training needs, etc….
You will be expected to make your own research on the history of Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways, and use examples of a decision that your firm took in its recent past.
Annual Reports, and the presentations of the members management board in the Annual Report or the Activity Report could be used
In your written report, the weighting will be the following
–          Ability to clearly identify and explain the decision that is being made by British Airways
–          Ability to explain why British Airways has taken this decision
–          Ability to explain the implications of the decision on different types of airline staff
–          Ability to explain what actions would be taken to minimize the negative impacts on staff and maximize the positive effects
–          Grammar, writing spelling
–          Referencing
What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
In order to pass Assessment 1 you will need to:
 
Have a thorough understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organizational performance in the commercial air transport industry.
 
How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.
How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
This assessment will bring together some of the main and foundational themes of Managing People in Aviation.
 
Students will be expected to synthesise the themes explored during the entirety of the unit for this assessment.
Students will apply their understanding to a situation faced by a company of their choice and how this impacts the way people are managed.
 
 

Impacts on Staff of a Change in Business Practice of Emirates Airlines, British Airways, or Qatar Airways.

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Managing People in Aviation 
Impacts on Staff of a Change in Business Practice of Qatar Airways.

Unit learning outcomes 1           Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding·         Demonstrate coherent understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organisational performance in the commercial air transport industry
2           Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
·         Describe, analyse, and demonstrate the ability to develop and motivate people to work efficiently and to resolve conflict situations in the commercial air transport industry.
 

 

What am I required to do in this assignment?
You are required to write a 1000 words report (+/- 10%) examining and explaining the impacts on staff of a change in business practice of Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways. You are to examine and explain how staff are impacted by a decision taken by the airline, taking into account the specific staff roles in Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways.The decisions you may want to consider are the following: growth or decline of the activity, new products or markets, change of structure, change of services, responding to competition, responding to a major crisis, etc…
The impacts on the staff you may want to consider are motivation, staff turnover, performance, conflict, illness, absenteeism, skills, training needs, etc….
You will be expected to make your own research on the history of Qatar Airways, Emirates Airlines, or British Airways, and use examples of a decision that your firm took in its recent past.
Annual Reports, and the presentations of the members management board in the Annual Report or the Activity Report could be used
In your written report, the weighting will be the following
–          Ability to clearly identify and explain the decision that is being made by British Airways
–          Ability to explain why British Airways has taken this decision
–          Ability to explain the implications of the decision on different types of airline staff
–          Ability to explain what actions would be taken to minimize the negative impacts on staff and maximize the positive effects
–          Grammar, writing spelling
–          Referencing
What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
In order to pass Assessment 1 you will need to:
 
Have a thorough understanding on how different management and leadership styles impact on team and organizational performance in the commercial air transport industry.
 
How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.
How does assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
This assessment will bring together some of the main and foundational themes of Managing People in Aviation.
 
Students will be expected to synthesise the themes explored during the entirety of the unit for this assessment.
Students will apply their understanding to a situation faced by a company of their choice and how this impacts the way people are managed.
 
 

 Principles of Marketing

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Current Events Assignment –  Principles of Marketing
 
It is very important for people to know and understand the events that are happening across the globe. This assignment is designed to have you read one article from a newspaper, magazine, or web site and to analyze those articles.  Forbes.com and Mashable.com are good websites, but you can also search the web for news regarding a marketing topic from our book.  Articles should pertain to events happening in our world today, such as something you see in the news.  Do not pick an educational article that gives advice, as this is not a current event.  If you would like to double check that your article is appropriate, you may email a link to the article (this is not required) no later than 48 hours before the due date.  Make sure you include which chapter and topic apply to the article.
This assignment should be typed, but you may use the format on this page.  Make sure you use the headings (Topic, Title, Article Source….), not just numbers.  Paragraph form is not necessary.  This assignment is worth 100 points.  Please email me with any questions.
You are to include the following criteria in your assignment (notice criteria continue on second page):

  1. Topic: 10 points
    1. What is the topic of your article?
    2. What chapter AND subject content in our book does it relate to?  If the topic does not correlate with the chapter and subject you state, you will receive zero points.
  2. Title:  5 points
    1. What is the title of your article?  Use exact wording.
  3.  Article Source:  10 points
    1. Where did you find the article?  Be specific. Insert link to article.
    2. What date was the article published?
  4.  Summary:  25 points
    1. Briefly, in your own words, summarize the content of the article.
    2. Five sentence minimum
  5.  Reaction:  20 points
    1. Take a position on the issue contained in the article.
  1. How do you feel about the event?
  2. How does this event affect you? If the event does not affect you, choose another article.
  • Four sentence minimum
  1.  World Impact:  15 points
    1. How does this event impact the world?
    2. Three sentence minimum
  2. Grammar/Spelling:  15 points

 
This is an example of a current event assignment from a different course, but it is a good guide as far as formatting goes!
Current Events Assignment #1
BADM 105: General Business Administration

  1. Topic:
    1. The topic of this article is entrepreneurship.
    2. This topic is discussed in Chapter 6, Starting Your Own Business: The Entrepreneurship
  2. Title
    1. “Fiji Water’s David Gilmour Takes Aim At New Start Up”
  3. Article Source:
    1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2013/02/13/fiji-waters-david-gilmour-takes-aim-at-new-start-up/ (Forbes.com)
    2. February 13, 2013
  4. Summary:
    1. David Gilmour is a serial entrepreneur that has founded over twelve companies. His Fiji water is the number one imported water in the United States.  In 1969, he opened the first of many South Pacific Hotels. His latest start up is Wakaya Perfection, which is a powdered ginger product.  The product is made on his private island in Fiji.
  5. Reaction: 
    1. Take a position on the issue contained in the article.
      1. How do you feel about the event? I am impressed that David Gilmour has been and continues to be successful at 81 years-old.  The article explains that Mr. Gilmour has worked hard to achieve his current success.  He is the perfect example of a serial entrepreneur.
      2. How does this event affect you? Knowing how important entrepreneurship is to our nation’s economy, this article reminds me that although many start-ups fail, many do succeed.  Mr. Gilmour’s story reminds me that hard work and calculated risk-taking can pay off in the long run.  This article makes me think harder about my quest to be a successful entrepreneur in the field of facial products.
    2. World Impact: 
      1. Gilmour has started businesses in many different countries. His ventures have impacted the global economy, and his products and services continue to enhance consumers and businesses.  His new ginger powder product is already being sold on Amazon.