E-Supply Chain Management (ECOM402) Second Semester (2023-2024) Assignment Par

E-Supply Chain Management (ECOM402)

Second Semester (2023-2024)
Assignment Part 1: Critical Thinking
Maximum Grades: 15
Duration: 6 Weeks
Number of Words for Each Answer: 150 to 200 Words
Critical Thinking
Background information:
The supply chain profession entered the year leading the digitalization of ecosystems, delivering the customer experience, managing trade uncertainty, and applying circular economy concepts.
Digital technologies have deeply changed the way societies exchange information and interact with each other Technological novelties have altered how people communicate and share information. Technology has driven enterprises to the next level by helping in many ways starting from automating repetitive activities, eliminating errors, and last but not least to help in decision making. The use of technology will surely bring down the challenges and issues, related to customer expectations, managing their suppliers, maintaining the quality standards, and access to supply chain data faced by Supply Chain leaders year-on-year.
The evolution of SCM is being driven by new information technologies, including Big Data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency identification (RFID), 3-D printing, robotics, global digital networks, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. Global supply chain flows will become increasingly digital and integrated, and end-to-end data will be driven in real-time, exponentially increasing upstream information flows.” This new paradigm calls for a new management culture. We call this management culture “Supply Chain Management 4.0.”
This novel technology will affect the logistics, supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation industries. Therefore, the future of every industry will be open to innovation and technology. Every industry is going through a rapid transformation that appeared with the fourth industrial revolution.
As a Project manager what measures are you going to take for your organization under below mentioned critical questions:

Below is the list of companies available that you need to select as a group activity and attempt the critical questions mentioned below.
Jarir https://www.jarir.com/sa-en/
Critical Question(s)
Ques-1-Looking ahead to 2024 and beyond, what does the future hold for the supply chain? (3- Marks)
Ques-2-Discuss the role of technologies (Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) and its Impact on the Leanness of E-Procurement Processes. (3- Marks)

Ques-3-Examine and Outline the major issues being faced by supply chain manager(s) and how it affects the company they work for. (3- Marks)

Ques-4- Information Communication & Technology (ICT) offers many valuable capabilities to the enterprise, especially in E-Auction / Negotiation, Discuss. (3- Marks)
Ques-5- As an expert discuss, how supply chain managers should manage challenges arising from global supply chains. (3- Marks)

uctions – PL Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
Guidelines for the assignment:
oThis is a group project (3 to 4 students), and requires group effort, research, and critical thinking. The instructor will inform if in case there is any change. HEM CAREFULLY
OThe Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via the allocated folder.
OAssignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
oNumber of words for each answer should be 150 to 200 Words.
OStudents are advised to make their work clear and well-presented; marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling in your information on the cover page.
OStudents must mention the question number clearly in their answers.
OLate submissions will NOT be accepted/ or direct 1 mark will be deducted from the marks achieved.
oAvoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
oUp to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of the assignment (Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing, and word count).
oAll answers must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
oUse Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA (7th ed) style guidelines.
oSupport your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
oSubmissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

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