Discuss how advanced technologies (e.g., Big Data analytics, Internet of Things, Omnichannel) may help the industry/sector to recover and improve its overall supply chain performance.

Critically
Appraise the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain of the Retail Industry.
Appraise how the supply chain
structure has been changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Evaluate how the industry/sector
has managed (or still manages) to tackle inventory management
related issues that arose after the COVID-19 breakout.
Discuss how advanced technologies
(e.g., Big Data analytics, Internet of Things, Omnichannel) may help the
industry/sector to recover and improve its overall supply chain
performance.
For each question above, we need to support our arguments by bringing into the
discussion 1-2 examples of companies that belong to the selected
sector/industry in this case the retail Industry. The following is also important when
submitting the assignment:
•
Quality
of executive summary (does it give a brief complete summary of your paper for
an executive to read?)
•
Establishment
of relevant theory (e.g. how supply chain environments are differentiated from
region to region?)
•
Allocation
of credit and sources used (have I included references and citations to the
material I have used?)
•
Clarity
of argument
•
Adherence
to the nominated word limit (+/- 10%). The assignment is max 3000 words and we need
to ignore the word count for reference list and executive summary. The +/-10%
is for the citations within the assignment.
•
We
need to use the Harvard Referencing System.
Reading Materials:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MSCRA-05-2020-0011/full/html
1. Supply Chain
Management -An Introduction to Supply Chain Management by Donald Waters
2. An Introduction
to Supply Chain Management: A Global Supply Chain Support
Perspective By Edmund Prater and Kim Whitehead
3. Forecasting from
Operations Management by William Stevenson
4. Global Supply
Chain Management by Matt Drake
5. Creating Lean
Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain by John Paul
MacDuffie & Susan Helper
6. The Triple-A
Supply Chain by Hau L. Lee
7. Fighting
Corruption in the Supply Chain: A Guide for Customers and Suppliers by United
Nations Global Compact
Unit wise
breakdown:
Unit 1:
Focused on basics of supply chain management and logistics. 1 & 2
Unit 2:
Focused on Forecasting: 1,2 & 3
Unit 3:
Focused on Inventory Management and Supplier Management: 1 & 2
Unit 4: Global
Transportation, Warehousing and Distribution: 1 & 4
Unit 5: Lean
Supplier Management: 1, 5 & 6
Unit 6: Future
Supply Chain Trends and Corruption in Supply Chain: 2 & 7

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