NMIMS Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Advanced Supply Chain Management
Internal Assignment Applicable for December 2024 Examination
Assignment Marks: 30
Instructions:
ï‚· All Questions carry equal marks.
ï‚· All Questions are compulsory
ï‚· All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question
3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far
as possible.
ï‚· All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
ï‚· Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting
their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of reference.
ï‚· Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from other
students is not allowed.
ï‚· Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.
1. You are appointed as head of Global Sourcing. You realize, your organization is
carrying out complex global sourcing initiatives, but they are not adequately supported
with equally thorough network design. Discuss the factors you would consider
designing a global supply chain. Give some industry examples where it was
successfully adopted. (10 Marks)
2. IT plays a major role in supply chain management in speeding up business processes
and preventing bottlenecks. Organizations may have to determine what kind of
strategies should be formulated, when to be formulated and how to be formulated for
successful IT adoption. Discuss the strategic management framework for IT adoption
with relevant examples.
(10 Marks)
3. You are the manager of a store that sells historical replicas. Given below are the past
sales for the last 5 years.
Year 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Sales 4000 6000 5000 3000 7000
a. Forecast sales for 2023 using a 3-period moving average. (5 Marks)
b. Discuss the time-related factors that you will consider in the analysis of a time series.
(5 Marks)
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