Academic Year 2022/23
M22004-Supply Chain Management
Coursework2:Poster
DeadlineForSubmission: 13/01/2023 at noon (12:00)
Submission Instructions Upload a poster and its accompanying Excel file on Moodle. As this a 2-part submission, name each file with your student ID.
Instructions for completing the assessment:
See overleaf.
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Supply Chain Management Coursework Brief for Poster (Coursework 2)
Specifications:
The poster is individual work and is worth 70% of your mark for the supply chain module. You should prepare a poster addressing the brief shown below.
This is not an essay assignment, and posters that contains too much text will be marked down. You should concentrate on producing high quality analysis supported by a spreadsheet. This should be presented as technical tables and illustrations.
The deadline is 13/01/2023 and your poster should be submitted on Moodle, using any electronic format accepted by Moodle. Typically, this will be a poster in a pdf, Word, Powerpoint, or Publisher format. Your poster should be designed as an A3 landscape format, or larger. You can include as much additional information in the Excel file as you want.
Background
In this coursework, you should expand on the idea that you have proposed in coursework 1 in terms of improving a supply chain. You have to follow a set process (described below), so make sure that you address all aspects of the brief to earn a maximum amount of marks. Do not skip a requirement altogether!
Brief
Your task is to show on a poster a detailed business case for your proposed improvement, which should include the economic feasibility of that improvement. All concepts covered in the lectures and tutorials in the first 7 weeks of the module should be applied. The structure of your poster is free but it is recommended that you make sure that you cover the following points:
- Provide a general introduction to your supply chain and the industry that it operates in.
This should include an original supply chain map. The supply chain map should clearly show the end user and all the supply nodes, stock points, and transportation modes.
- Scoping of your poster. Improving a supply chain can be a broad task, so you need to scope down your poster to focus on a specific improvement initiative that can be researched and assessed for this coursework. If your scope is too wide, your poster’s content could be too generic, and the analysis too complex, which could lead to a fail mark. Make sure your scope is explicit in your poster and in your Excel file.
- Develop a cost framework. For your proposed improvement, devise a cost framework to be used to assess economic feasibility. This will be typically be a cost benefit analysis, but you will first have to define variables such a capacity, utilisation, and demand. If your proposed improvement is not about cost, propose an alternative framework (e.g. environmental impact reduction). If you use an alternative framework, use that framework for this and the following questions.
- Populate your cost framework in Excel by using available data from sources that you will have to research. Make assumptions when needed. Show detailed computations in Excel. Show the results in the poster and draw a conclusion about the viability of your initiative.
- Perform a risk analysis for your proposed improvement. This can be done by showing a risk register/log/assessment on the poster. Comment on the impact of this step, qualitatively speaking, on your conclusion of part 4.
- Select at least one risk factor or an assumption that you think is critical. Select several if relevant. For these selected variables, using Excel, perform a sensitivity analysis of the cost of your supply chain(s). Show the results on the poster and comment on the impact of this step, quantitatively speaking, on your conclusion of part 4.
Marking
The poster will be marked as shown in the table overleaf.
Marking Scheme
| Mark | Introduction (10 points) | Scoping (20 points) | Cost Framework (20 points) | Cost Analysis (10 points) | Risk Analysis (10 Points) | Sensitivity Analysis (10 points) | Poster design (10 points) | Excel file (10 points) |
| 80+ | Excellent, well researched, | Excellent scoping of the | A professional- strength cost | High quality secondary data | Very well researched risk | Analytically advanced | Designed with professional | Professionally presented and |
| thorough | task, which is | framework has | has been used | analysis based | sensitivity | flair and | clear to read | |
| presentation of | feasible in the | been designed. | to populate the | on the | analysis, | making a full | Excel file, | |
| the context of | timescale of | Outstanding | framework and | competent | adding a | use of the | containing | |
| the supply | CW1. Focuses | research. | to provide very | application of | genuine depth | multimedia, | advanced use | |
| chain. Ability to | on a topical | convincing and | an established | to the analysis. | rich nature of a | of Excel | ||
| concisely | issue. Different | interesting cost | risk framework. | poster. | functions. | |||
| present lots of | possible | estimates. | ||||||
| information. | configurations | |||||||
| are designed | ||||||||
| with | ||||||||
| engineering | ||||||||
| flair. | ||||||||
| 70-79 | Very good, well researched, | Very good scoping of the | A very good cost framework | Good quality secondary data | Very well researched risk | Very good and insightful | Very well- designed | Very well presented and |
| thorough | task, which is | has been | has been used | analysis based | sensitivity | poster, making | clear to read | |
| presentation of | feasible in the | designed and | to populate the | on the | analysis. | a full use of the | Excel file, | |
| the supply | timescale of | is supported by | framework. | competent | multimedia, | containing | ||
| chain context. | CW1. Focuses | very good | Convincing | application of | rich nature of a | advanced use | ||
| on a topical | research. | cost estimates. | an established | poster. | of Excel | |||
| issue. Different | risk framework. | functions. | ||||||
| possible | ||||||||
| configurations | ||||||||
| are considered. |
| Mark | Introduction (10 points) | Scoping (10 points) | Cost Framework (20 points) | Cost Analysis (10 points) | Risk Analysis (10 Points) | Sensitivity Analysis (20 points) | Poster design (10 points) | Excel file (10 points) |
| 60-69 | Good understanding | Good scoping of the task, | The cost framework | Some secondary data | Well researched risk | There is a sensitivity | Well-designed poster, using | Well-presented and clear to |
| of the supply | which is | provides a | has been used | analysis based | analysis, but it | the rich nature | read Excel file, | |
| chain context; | feasible in the | robust | to populate the | on the sound | is rather | of a poster. | containing | |
| could be more | timescale of | assessment of | framework and | application of | standard. | some use of | ||
| researched. | CW1. Focuses | supply chain(s) | to provide | an established | Excel | |||
| on a topical | but is missing | reasonably | risk framework. | functions. | ||||
| issue. A | some key cost | convincing cost | ||||||
| handful of | components. | estimates. | ||||||
| possible | ||||||||
| configurations | ||||||||
| are considered. | ||||||||
| 50-59 | Basic and generic | Average scoping of the | The cost framework is | Very limited data has been | Partially researched risk | Basic attempt at a sensitivity | Very basic poster design | Basic presentation, |
| presentation of | task, which is | incomplete. | used. A rough | analysis based | analysis. | not necessarily | somewhat | |
| the supply | feasible in the | The costs that | idea of costs is | on an | taking | messy. Some | ||
| chain context | timescale of | are considered | provided. | acceptable | advantage of | analysis has | ||
| CW1. Not | are relevant. | application of | the poster | been done. | ||||
| necessarily a | an established | format. | ||||||
| topical issue. | risk framework. | |||||||
| Only one | ||||||||
| possible | ||||||||
| configuration is | ||||||||
| considered (or | ||||||||
| poor alternative | ||||||||
| configurations). |
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