GSCM 440 Supply Chain Procurement Management and Sourcing Strategy

GSCM 440 Week 8 Assignment | Devry UniversityWeek 8: Course Project (Due this week).Please submit the project. The earlier in the week that this is done, the better. Be sure to review the requirements located on the Course Project section under the Introduction & Resources area.

GSCM 440 Week 8 Discussion | Devry UniversityWeek 8: Looking Ahead and self-reflectionWe are all from different social, cultural, economic and demographic backgrounds. This course brought us together as one group. Two questions that must be answered here:1. discuss your experience of learning about your classmates and how it impacted your understanding of people from other backgrounds.2. reflect on what you learned in this course and desc

GSCM 440 Week 6 Discussion | Devry UniversityWeek 7: Ethical Behavior of Procurement ProfessionalsEthical behavior is crucial in all aspects of business and purchasing and procurement is no different. What should a buyer consider to make certain that he or she is not exposing his or her company to excessive legal risks? Think how you incorporate ethics into your sourcing report as we’ll be visiting this topic later in the week.

GSCM 440 Week 6 Quiz |Devry UniversityWeek 6: Quiz Question 1 Why should an organization switch from making to buying? · Make is typical less expensive, · make is faster implementation · buy is faster implementation and often has been tested Question 2 What is outsourcing? · keeping the function in house · going outside to have another firm support the process · is a core competence Questio

GSCM 440 Week 6 Discussion | Devry UniversityWeek 6: More on purchasing!Most of us love Halloween! This is a great video about a major costume company and I think you’ll find it interesting! Please watch it and answer the following questions:https://www.viddler.com/embed/6c013714/Links to an external site.1. What is their purchasing strategy concerning projections? How do they possibly know how many costumes to order to meet Halloween dema

GSCM 440 Week 5 Assignment | Devry UniversityWeek 5: HomeworkWeek 5 HW Develop a Vendor Questionnaire and supporting document that supports the following:Format Brief Background in a word document then build the Questionnaire. (Strive for 200 words in the document)Summarize the value and content of the Questionnaire.Week 5: Paper with a questionnaire on vendors/suppliers quality qualifications. List out the questions and criteria that a prospe

GSCM 440 Week 5 Discussion | Devry UniversityWeek 5: Cost Management TechniquesLet’s keep discussion in line with your project! In your sourcing paper, you have to select a supplier, partly by using the using the vendor questionnaire you are developing for this week’s HW assignment. What will be the most important factors of who you will purchase your hydraulic cylinders from? Will you be visiting their plant and what will you be looking fo

GSCM 440 Week 4 Assignment | Devry UniversityWeek 4: Homework executive summaryThis week you will produce the executive summary of your sourcing report.1. Title Page2. Executive SummaryApproximately 2 pages single-spaced, 12-point font. APA Style.Student is to realize that the bottom line is what the executive team is looking for. Their expectation from you is that you did your due diligence.In the summary, you will explain the:· STRATEGIC

GSCM 440 Week 4 Discussion |Devry UniversityWeek 4: Quality and InventoryWe are going to get into inventory on the follow up topic, but I want to focus on Six Sigma video at Caterpillar. In the video, there isconversation about Value Stream Mapping. Your discussion topic this week: pick a product (real pr hypothetical) and discuss how you can add value to that product using Six Sigma. Remember that the overall perceived value of a product h

GSCM 440 Week 3 Quiz | Devry University Question 1 What kinds of decisions does a typical supply manager make? · Strategic · operational · both A and B Question 2 Differentiate between purchasing, procurement, materials management, logistics, supply management, and supply chain management. Question 3 How can the expectations of supply differ for private versus public organizations? Question 4