Category: Supply Chain

Case 4—Ford Motor Company
Helpful questions to consider
How strong are the competitive forces in the global automobile industry? Do a five-forces analysis to support your answer. What are the key drivers in this industry?
How have Ford’s strategy choices strengthened or weakened its position in the global automobile industry? What does a SWOT analysis reveal about Ford’s overall situation in 2020?
What are the primary components of Ford’s value chain?
What is your assessment of Ford’s financial performance over the 2017 – 2019 period? (You could use the financial ratios in the Appendix of the text as a guide in doing your financial analysis.)
What do you see as the 3–4 top priority issues for CEO Jim Hackett and his management team to address?
Directions
Conduct a strategic analysis using the Executive Summary template. Prepare and submit a three-page executive summary that discusses what strategic alternatives are available and provide a recommended strategy. You have been asked to prepare an analysis of Ford’s competitive position in the automobile and truck industry. Your report should contain 2–3 pages of recommendations for continuing the company’s success in assembling a diversified portfolio of retail brands, improving its financial position, and a recommendation about potential new areas for diversification or divestment. Write an executive summary of recommendations of no more than 2–3 pages, accompanied by supporting exhibits. These exhibits may include an overview of Ford’s strategy, an assessment of industry forces and drivers, and a financial analysis.
You are to work alone to analyze and prepare the Executive Summary for the case. NOTE: Click “Submit Assignment” in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to turn in your Executive Summary no later than Sunday, midnight CT. Name your file with your name and the unit number, i.e. Jones1 or Brown1. Your file should be in either Microsoft word (.doc or .docx) or rich text (.rtf) format.
The following information will be required for the Executive Summary. TEXTBOOK CASE ANALYSIS GUIDANCE(CAG) Download TEXTBOOK CASE ANALYSIS GUIDANCE(CAG) and the TEXTBOOK BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TEMPLATE Download TEXTBOOK BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TEMPLATE These files are required for the unit textbook case studies.
Synopsis of the Case: The content of the synopsis should present relevant background facts about the case under examination.
Relevant Factual Information about the Problem or Decision the Organization Faced: State the precise problem or decision the organization faced. The section should include information that addressed the business issue under examination. This section should be no longer than a single paragraph.
Explanation of Relevant Concepts, Theories and Applications Derived from Course Materials: This section should be the bulk of your paper. Analysis of the business problem or decision in light of the course concepts must be presented, as well as the business lesson another organization could learn from this situation. Besides citation to the text, learners must conduct research in the University library related to the top. Citing the textbook only is not enough to demonstrate you understand and can apply the course objectives. Here is where comparative and contrasting positions should be considered and examples and illustrations provided.
Recommendations: Provide logical recommendations to address the business lesson identified above. The recommendations need not to be specific to the organization examined, but should consider how other organizations, if similarly situated, could lessen the impact of the problem or decision identified. Recall, that the organization under examination has already moved pasted this problem so any recommendations made, at this point, are fruitless. The focus of this section should be on what other companies should be aware of to address similar problems or decisions. Citation to the textbook alone is insufficient for analysis in this section. Learners should conduct research in the University’s library to support their positions. Depth of scholarship is not demonstrated by providing personal opinions alone, but by using examples, analogies, comparison and illustrations from the academic literature. Not only does this synthesize the material to assist the reader’s understanding, it is an effective way to present the academic sources and extend the discussion of your ideas. This section should be a paragraph or two.
Alternative Recommendations: This section is not a continuation of the prior. Provide suggestions for how to avoid the problem or decision the examined organization faced. Analysis here should be may be forward- thinking, predictive or, most likely, preventative in nature but tied to the thesis statement. Again, opinion is insufficient to provide the required academic analysis. Sources, other than the text, must be provided to sustain the statements made. This section should be a paragraph, at most.
Conclusion: End the assignment with a summary of the important points made in the document. No new information may be presented. Writing a conclusion can be done by rewording the opening or reformulation the topic sentences of each paragraph to make a summary for the reader. This section should be a paragraph, at most.

No AI to be used for this assignment. School is detecting and failing assignments. Please be considerate to this.
Textbook for reference: Coyle, J. (2016). Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (10th ed.). Cengage Learning US. https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781305888692
Chapter 6 Case Study
Case 6.1 Hudson Guitars answer questions 1 & 2
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5
Chapter 7 Case Study
Case 7.1 Tires for You question #1
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5
Chapter 8 Case Study
Case 8.1 Telco Corp. Questions 1-2-3
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5

No AI to be used for this assignment. School is detecting and failing assignments. Please be considerate to this.
Textbook for reference: Coyle, J. (2016). Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective (10th ed.). Cengage Learning US. https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781305888692
Chapter 6 Case Study
Case 6.1 Hudson Guitars answer questions 1 & 2
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5
Chapter 7 Case Study
Case 7.1 Tires for You question #1
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5
Chapter 8 Case Study
Case 8.1 Telco Corp. Questions 1-2-3
Chapter questions 1,2,3,4,5

Instructions
Assignment 4
Research an article regarding how Artificial Intelligence systems are going to change acquisition and fulfillment in the future. As your topic might be very new, please use the web or the library. Note that you need to make sure to support your position on what will change in the future.
Read the articles below about the topic.
Link: https://fcw.com/articles/2017/07/07/is-govt-ready-for-ai.aspx
Link: https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/focus/cognitive-technologies/artificial-intelligence-government.html
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/ai-government-policy/
Link: http://www.nextgov.com/technology-news/tech-insider/2017/06/what-future-artificial-intelligence-government-could-look/138352/
Link: https://www.capgemini.com/2017/07/artificial-intelligence-for-government-realising-a-smarter-public-sector/
You need to make sure to identify the author’s point of view, and the bias of the author. Remember to include a link to the article.
Write a two-page paper, plus the title page and a reference page
As always, read all the lesson notes in Week 6 before you start this assignment as new or current events may have been updated since the start of class.
Instructions:
•Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
•Length of paper: typed, double-spaced pages with no less than a two-page paper.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Assignment Instructions
Please upload a Word document using APA format for this assignment (see attached for the template). Where applicable, you must show your derivations, analysis and how you obtained the responses/answers. Use title page, in-text citations, references, appropriate font size, double spaces, etc. where appropriate. The assignment will be graded for content and APA formatting. See the following criteria below.
Grading CategoryPoint Val. Your Points
Paper meets the specified pages or word length, demonstrates thorough understanding of the reading assignment, reflects critical thought, and relates to course content and/or industry applications.
No length requirement, but all work must be shown and/or explained.
20

Ideas and concepts are supported through resources and/or personal experiences. Work exhibits truthful and verifiable statements and mathematical formulae and derivations used where applicable.40
Posts are free of writing errors (syntax, grammar, etc.)
Try to avoid using needless fillers i.e. that. I did not count those as errors this time. Also, free of APA format errors.
___ Errors – 1-4 =.9 5-7= .8, 8-10= .7, 11-12= .6, 13-14= .5, 15-17= .4, 18= .3, 19= .2, 20= .1, 21 or more 0.
40

Total100

Assignment Questions:
Please show all work for this assignment and explain your derivations. Lack of step-by-step work will not be credited. Partial credit will be given for step-by-step description of answer.
a. NAAQS were established for six principal pollutants. Describe each and give examples of each applicable pollutant. (10 points)
b. In Hepburn’s Speed Model, the coefficients of vehicles are indicated for C and D. As the chief of operations in your organization, you are responsible for presenting the yearly budget for the semi trucks in your company’s inventory. Since your safety officer is insisting that each of your drivers must maintain an average speed of 55mph, what would be the vehicle operating cost of your company for each semi-truck in cent per mile? ____(10 points)
c. A taxi driver plans to pick you up at the airport and drop you off at the bank so you can complete some financial transaction before you head home. He notes that the change in vehicle operating cost (VOC) is 42 cents per mile. Given that his fuel consumption per minute is 0.2, what is the approximate price of fuel for this given arrangement if you delayed the driver for 36 minutes at the bank? ____(10 points)
d. The simple interest for buying a passenger transit rail is shown as the product of the principle amount (P), time (in years), and annual rate (R). The City of Phoenix plans to buy five additional mass transit cars for $15 million, and pay off its loan in 30 years. What would the annual percentage rate be if the city plans to make an interest payment of $2 million? ____(10 points)
e. In a box model, the maximum distance to transport particle across a city is calculated as follows: Approximate length of one side is 30 miles, width is 28 miles and the mixing height is 2 miles. To the nearest mile, what will be this distance? ____(10 points)
f. In a box model, the maximum distance to transport particle across a city is calculated as follows: Approximate length of one side is 30 miles, width is 28 miles and the mixing height is 2 miles. For a pollutant particle emitted on one side of the town, what is the maximum time it will take to be transported across the city with wind velocity of 10 miles per hour (to the nearest hour)? ____(12 points)
g. In a box model, the maximum distance to transport particle across a city is calculated as follows: Approximate length of one side is 30 miles, width is 28 miles and the mixing height is 2 miles. To the nearest hour what will be the average time it will take a particle to travel from one side to the other (to the nearest hour)? ____(12 points)
h. If you are the planning engineer for an apartment complex your organization plans to build close to the highway and you know that your potential tenants will complain of traffic noise hazards. You want to assure them that you have adequately carried out the noise impact analysis. Given that the sea level pressure is 0.00002N/m, to ensure that pressure level does not exceed 12 decibels, the sound pressure of concern must be___________ (in N/m). ____(13 points)
i. In the Rocky Mountain region, there are endangered species like jumping mice and burrowing owls that are protected by the EPA. If you want to build a roadway to facilitate traffic congestions in Denver, part of your plan will include using Simpson’s diversity index to calculate the number of organisms in two communities. If EPA warned you that there are 400 burrowing owls in proposed region Community A and 500 burrowing owls in proposed region Community B, determine Simpson’s diversity index for community A. ____(13 points)

Solve the Supply Chain Question for MRP Recording with all Detail needed + explanation
All Details are attached in the Photo

Note: • This HW you can work on it in a group of 3 or 4 members. Only 1 member submit the work but make sure to include all the names of the group members on the cover page. • Please include the proper covering page of this submission. List all the names of the group members on the cover page. • Meeting deadlines fall under the code of ethics. So make the timely submissions. Grades will be deducted for late submission.

“The Influence of Implementing
Artificial Intelligence on Businesses in the Logistics Industry and Its Effect on Workforce Displacement.”
I need it to discuss the lack of information, research papers and regulations in Sultanate of Oman about AI technologies…
It is also important to use figures and numbers to explain the ideas

Hello!
Happy to work with you again.
I have previously worked on the project, we need to complete 2nd phase by adding some of details , numbers or graphs to demonstrate the advantage of this projects in terms of SCM , Environmental ,Sustainability & Governance (ESG). I’ve made some improvements to the draft you, see attached.
Also we have selected two cities where the train will pass by, Jubail Industrial city & Dammam Port in Saudi Arabia to transport goods, travelers and even employees. The project is already under progress and its very close to getting started. You can readofficial articles and local news related to this project or via the website of both companies that are working on it now ( SAR| Home & SABIC – SABIC homepage).
Phase-2 Application of Knowledge
The student implements his/her gained knowledge by identifying, analyzing, and solving the real world SCM problem related to the environment understudy.
Student writes a 5 page (2500 words ) of his/her understanding then meets with the advisor to discuss the way forward.
All References should be listed in an acceptable format (for example APA style).
Plagiarism and AI reports should be shared.

a. Calculate annual demand
b. Calculate the Efficient Order Quantity.
c. Calculate the order frequency.
d. Calculate Total Costs
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e. Calculate the safety Stock (SS)
f. Calculate the Re-order Point.
g. Given the current issues at Boeing, should the company keep ordering at the same rate or adopt your EOQ? Why? Why not? Be brief, but specific in your response.
H: How many of each type of seat should Boeing order?