Teaching Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Assessment Learning Outcomes, Purpose, and Required

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this assessment, the students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate logistics and supply chain operations.

• Apply technical knowledge and skills to solve contemporary issues in supply chain and logistics management.

• Create effective and sustainable logistics management and supply chain solutions.

Aims to teach students to identify and address supply chain and logistics management problems prevalent in industry. Students are required to work on a group project collectively and reflect on supply chain and logistics understanding gained in the course. The assessment should describe, analyse and evaluate the selected problem around the chosen industry and organisation. Successful projects include a variety of supply chain and logistics management approaches learned during the course.

Analyse – Break down and carefully examine the most important parts showing how they are related, whether they work together and why they are important.

Define – Give the exact meaning of a word of phrase. Be clear and concise.

Evaluate – Carefully assess advantages and limitations. Emphasize evidence and authoritative view. 

Illustrate – Use real life examples to explain and clarify the topic. Use diagrams.

State – Give main points clearly and briefly. Usually leave out details and examples. 

In the group project, students are required to submit the following tasks in the order given below. Project tasks are divided into group (G) and individual (I) categories. Please refer to the group project template available on the course Moodle site for format details.

1 Research question

In the organisation of your choice from Table 1, frame a main research question to seek answers for the selected problem. The main research question should further be split into sub-questions corresponding to each group member. 

2 Executive summary

Provide a summary of the report. It should include purpose, background, main findings, conclusions and recommendations.

3 Introduction

Introduce the supply chain and logistics problem and elaborate its scope clearly in the industrial and organisational context.  Present an illustration of the broad supply chain

of the organisation considered in your main research question.

4 Integration and Value Generation

In the context of your sub-research question, select a specific supply chain stage.Based on this, present an instance of an appropriate supply chain integration scenario.Critique and evaluate the integration aspect.  Generate a Value Stream Map (VSM) around the selected supply chain stage.

5 Risks and Conflicts

Analyse supply chain issues such as risks and conflicts related within the selected supply chain stage.  Evaluate sustainability aspects in regard to the selected supply chain stage.

6 Transportation and Logistics

Represent transport considerations through creating a network diagram.  Logistics requirements should be presented in a tabular form and analysed.  Provide a succinct description of both Transportation and Logistics aspects separately.

7 Sustainability Aspects

Address three (3) sustainability aspects and evaluate them thoroughly. Create an alternate mechanism using reverse logistics to mitigate existing sustainability concerns identified in the study.

8 Conclusion

The conclusion should integrate the main research question objective with the key findings of all the sub-research questions and provide recommendations appropriately.