NMIMS Semester 3 April 2024 Supply Chain Assignments
Operations and Supply chain strategies
1. Mr. Goyal holds the position of supply chain manager at OLB Ltd., a company currently shifting its focus towards manufacturing E scooters. Responding to customer demand, the company is in the process of building the largest manufacturing facility for E scooters in India. In this rapidly changing market, the company expects to encounter fierce competition from various other firms. Your task is to Analyze and suggest a different level of strategies that can be implemented within the company to enhance overall business profitability.
2. Twiggy is an Indian online food delivery platform that allows users to order food semiconductor is from nearby restaurants and have it delivered to their doorstep. Online food ordering and delivery platform Twiggy’s losses rose by 80 percent in the 2022-23 financial year. Is online delivery future of India? Is online food delivery maturing or declining? Explain existing situation of online food delivery with respected to industry life cycle.
3. Pedanta Ltd started manufacturing of semiconductor in Indian Market. The requirement of huge in the global market and Pedanta Ltd invested huge amount of money on machinery. Government is encouraging companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing.
a. You are appointed as supply chain consultant in the Firm. Suggest important supply chain drivers that helps Pedanta Ltd to become Global brand.
b. Enumerate the competitive dimensions required to ensure a productive worldwide Operations and Supply Chain.
Procurement management
Q.1 ProcureLink Enterprises is a medium-sized procurement and supply chain management company that operates in various industries. The company recognizes the potential benefits of adopting e-procurement strategies to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and streamline procurement processes. However, it is facing challenges in understanding the evolution of e-procurement, establishing effective pricing and business strategies,implementing online catalogues, and leveraging online auctions. Describe the evolution of e-procurement, including its various stages and technological advancements and explain how understanding this evolution can guide ProcureLink Enterprises in developing a robust e-procurement strategy. Also, recommend pricing models and business strategies that ProcureLink Enterprises can adopt to ensure competitiveness and profitability in the eprocurement marketplace.
Q.2 MetroBuild Infrastructures is a construction company specializing in large-scale infrastructure projects. The company often engages in contracts with government agencies to build roads, bridges, and public facilities. MetroBuild is challenged with determining appropriate pricing strategies, managing government influences on pricing, and addressing the complexities of contract cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances. Evaluate the factors that MetroBuild should consider when determining pricing for its infrastructure contracts and propose strategies for MetroBuild to manage and negotiate government influences on pricing while maintaining a fair and mutually beneficial partnership. Also, suggest a contingency plan and contractual clauses that MetroBuild should include to mitigate risks associated with contract cancellations and unexpected project disruptions.
Q.3 GlobalTronics Ltd. is a multinational electronics company that sources components and materials from various countries for its manufacturing operations. The company is committed to upholding ethical standards and complying with relevant laws in its procurement practices. However, the purchasing team is faced with complex decisions related to international buying ethics, the legal authority of purchasing managers, and contract law.
a) Explain the legal authority and responsibilities of a purchasing manager and discuss the importance of ethical considerations in global sourcing decisions for GlobalTronics. Now suppose GlobalTronics wants to source a wide range of products from suppliers around the world and distribute them to various markets. The company is looking to enhance its global sourcing strategies by improving supplier evaluation methods.
b) Describe different methods of global sourcing that Globaltronics can adopt to procure products from international suppliers and outline the factors that they should consider when evaluating potential global suppliers.
Total Quality management
Q1. What would be your objectives for implementing Quality Circle in your work area? Discuss the composition of your Quality Circle team.
Q2. Explain the statement with proper examples “The quality of a product influences the cost of the product”.
Q3. Performance measurement is one of the most essential factors of the total quality initiatives of an organization. It is concerned with managing the result and minimizing the overall variation in products or process.
a. In your opinion what should be the objectives of an efficient measurement system?
b. Discuss Strategic Performance Measurement
Enterprise resource planning
Read the case study – ‘SynGenta Pharma experiences ERP troubles’ and answer the following questions:
https://adhocfilesngasce.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/academics/1697870452rFTlm.pdf
1. Explain the reasons for SynGenta Pharma moving from the legacy system to the new ERP environment. Was the timing of this decision correct?
2. Analyze the reasons for the failure of the ERP implementation from a risk management perspective.
3. Keeping the above case as a reference,
a. Compare and contrast between On-Premise vs. On-cloud ERP deployment.
b. Integration of Supply Chain Management (SCM) with the ERP.
Warehouse Management
1. Discuss Different Product Movement activities considering example of an Ecommerce warehouse.
2. Form a safety charter for employees of a warehouse to create awareness about Occupational safety and health considering points such as Fire safety, working at heights etc.
3. You are the warehouse manager of a pharmaceutical distribution center responsible for storing and distributing a wide range of medical products. The warehouse has been facing challenges in meeting increasing demand, maintaining temperature- sensitive products, and ensuring accurate order fulfillment. The management is considering investing in robotics and automation to improve warehouse efficiency and ensure product integrity. Your task is to analyze the situation and propose a plan for implementing robotics and automation in the pharmaceutical warehouse.
a. Conduct a thorough analysis of the current pharmaceutical warehouse operations. Identify the key pain points and inefficiencies that arise from manual material handling, order picking, and inventory management processes. Discuss the impact of these challenges on order processing times, inventory accuracy, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
b. Develop a comprehensive plan for implementing robotics and automation technologies in the pharmaceutical warehouse to enhance operational efficiency and maintain product integrity. Propose specific robotic solutions for various warehouse tasks.
Supply Chain Management
1. “SV Foods” is a snack supply start-up, who set up business post covid. They make varieties of sweets and snack items which are delicacies from different Indian cuisine. Over last 2 years they have expanded operations to Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata. They have also started getting international orders from snack dealers, event organizers etc. Locally within India, party organizers, wedding organizers, caterers have tied up with them for bulk orders and customized orders. In addition, they have recently started online portal for retail orders as well which is picking volumes. Describe any 3 types of distribution network design they can look at to cater to this their business growth.
2. “On Call” is a super market chain that operates 6 locations within the city. They do good volume of consumer-packaged goods business especially food, beverage, toiletries etc., Business growth has lead to issues like non-availability of items meet customer demand. Other times, high stocks of items which are disposed due to shelf- life. Overall, the main challenge of availability on time. Their thought is to have centralized and safety stock and some items with comparatively high shelf-life in stock. Issue with this approach would be seasonal and sudden demand changes. Recommend how you would remedy this situation through safety stock maintenance
3.“Grow More” is a gardening items store. They have gardening pots, tools, manure, seeds etc. They have higher sales during monsoon and some stable sales for certain items across other seasons as well. They also have 5 people who do consultancy and provide garden maintenance tips for customers by visiting their home garden. Being a growing organization, they have difficulties related to database maintenance, lack of support system and organization structure, no formal customer service measurement and improvement which affects customer satisfaction. Some customer complaint took very long time to resolve and it lead to bad reviews in their FB/X (Twitter) handle.
a. Apply any 3 supply chain enablers they can address to remedy this situation?
b. Their long-term view is to operate at a Lean and Agile Value Chain, specifically apply any 3 improvement points which will logically enable them to evolve to that level?
