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المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 3 MGT322 (1st Term 2023-2024)
Deadline: 2/12/2023 @ 23:59
Course Name: Logistics Management
Course Code: MGT322
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Semester: 1st
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Academic Year: 1445-46 H (2023-2024) 1st Term
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Students’ Grade: /10
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
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This assignment is an individual assignment.
Due date for Assignment 3 is 2/12/2023
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المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Logistics Management
ASSIGNMENT -3
Submission Date by students: Before the end of Week- 13th
Place of Submission: Students Grade Centre
Weight: 10 Marks
Learning Outcome:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of how global competitive environments are changing supply chain
management and logistics practice.
2. Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.
3. Analyze and identify challenges and issues pertaining to logistical processes.
Assignment Workload:
This assignment is an individual assignment.
Critical Thinking
To meet all the challenges organizations, try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques.
Management of organizations devotes their efforts to reducing manufacturing costs and improving the
quality of the product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques have been
employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated
manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firms leads to
improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).
Increased global competition leads the industry to increase efficiency by means of economies of scale and
internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and
quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are
characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements
on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the
manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasingly global economy, cost-effective
manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
The global marketplace has witnessed increased pressure from customers and competitors in
manufacturing as well as the service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing
global marketplace, only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality
at a cheaper rate to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost-cutting,
increasing productivity levels, and quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers
(Raouf, 1994).
Consult textbook chapter 7 or secondary data on the internet and answer the following questions.
Question:
1. What do think about lean Thinking? Why have Manufacturing Companies adopted Lean
Thinking? (2 Marks)
2. Briefly describe major types of Waste, that companies must keep in mind during production. (2
Marks)
3. What are the benefits from Suppliers to end users for using lean thinking? Assess the reasons
(suitable examples), (2 Marks)
4. With the advent of artificial intelligence. The agile supply chain is a perfect concept for future
SCM? Give reasons with suitable examples. (2 Marks)
5. Why overproduction is considered to be the biggest waste for manufacturing companies? (1Mark)
6. Reference (1 Mark)
Each answer should be within the limit of 200- 250 words.
The Answer must follow the outline points below:
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Lean Thinking and JIT Concept
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Agile Supply chain
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Their Main functions
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Reasons with suitable Examples
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Reference
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Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
المملكة العربية السعودية
وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
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