Supply Chain Strategy

SCM 4390 Supply Chain Strategy Individual Assignment #1 Guidelines

This assignment is focused on your TFC role. Considering your experience as part of the management team over two years (four rounds) TFC Session #1, your recent reappointment as part of the TFC management team TFC Session #2, and the results of TFC Session #2 Round 1 respond to the following questions (be concise and complete with your answers):

1) What is the major challenge that your role (VP Sales, VP Supply Chain, VP Operations, or VP Purchasing) (state your Role – if you have two (2) choose which for reference) must resolve before finalizing decisions for Session #2 Round 2 (be specific regarding the challenge). Reminder, improving ROI is management team responsibility and decisions within your role will not directly improve ROI without coordination with other TFC management functions. So, ROI improvement is not your sole specific major challenge. Your sole specific major challenge is to impact business decisions that will lead to improved ROI.

2) What information is available to help you resolve the challenge described in question #1? Describe. Do not present charts or other data/files from TFC. Describe the information.

3) What Role decision/decisions will you make by using the information?

4) What do you expect the impact of your decision/decisions to yield as a result regarding Session #2 Round 2? And WHY??

Grading: 20 points in total
10 points for content over the four (4) questions
10 points quality of explanations
Submit as a word document. No more than one and one half (1.5) pages.

Name and Title the Word Document:
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