***Utilize attachments provided***
For this assignment, you will utilize what you have learned in this course and the corrected work that you completed on your previous project proposal and milestones (M24, M54, M64, and M74) that are attached, and will complete the following:
- Write a 13 to 17-page paper addressing the below requirements. Keep in mind that you should have addressed some of these topics within your M2.4, M5.4, M6.4, and M7.4 submissions, but you will need to make corrections noted on those assignments and adjust the work as needed to address the below requirements. If you were unable to view the embedded feedback, please let your instructor know via the message center prior to Wednesday of Module 8. For this assignment, you will construct a new introduction and conclusion rather than use those sections from previous work.
- Discriminate between inbound and outbound logistics for that firm. What functions are included in the inbound logistics network for your firm? What type of activities are included in the outbound logistics network for your firm?
- When describing inbound and outbound operations within the logistics network for your chosen firm, identify potential suppliers, warehouses, and end users within that industry.
- Highlight why managers in your firm focus on voice of the customer. Within your explanation, ensure that you are describing value from the viewpoint of the customer and examining what might have value within the logistics network from the perspective of the customer.
- Demonstrate how a business manager in your chosen industry might utilize metrics to measure performance of logistics functions when applying lean principles. Within your analysis, you will need to explain how the metrics that you choose will measure performance of a logistics function (such as transportation) to help managers evaluate effectiveness of their lean initiatives. How will measuring performance in those logistics functions ensure better customer service?
- Using the information covered in the module resources, describe the demand patterns influencing products produced by your chosen firm.
- Analyze how those demand patterns impact optimal inventory levels within your chosen industry. What is optimal inventory level? You will need to explore how inventory costs are reduced and operational performance is increased when optimal inventory levels are maintained.
- Explain the activity within the logistics network that you identified for your current state VSM that you created for M7.4. Your current state VSM will be included within your M8.4 file and should be placed after the reference page.
- Examine the wastes that were identified within your current state VSM. What wastes were identified in your VSM (explain the wastes using the TIMWOODS acronym)? During which steps of the current process do wastes occur? Why are those steps considered waste from the viewpoint of the customer?
- Illustrate how those wastes can be eliminated.
- Highlight how managers in your firm measure total logistics costs. Within your explanation, ensure that you are describing total logistics costs and providing specific examples that would be included within total logistics costs for the global firm that chosen for your project.
- Identify challenges that managers in your chosen industry face as they operate global logistics networks.
- Highlight ways that managers have overcome challenges in global logistics networks through the application of lean principles to eliminate waste and manage costs.
- You must utilize at least five scholarly sources..
- Ensure that your thesis statement is aligned with the requirements for this assignment and clearly lets your reader know what you are going to write about in your paper. Your thesis statement should contain more than one sentence to capture the requirements for this assignment.
- Your 13 to 17-page paper must be double-spaced using 12 pt. Times New Roman font.
- You should use APA formatted headings to organize your paper and to present main topics.
- Please take note of the below items as you select external/scholarly sources for this assignment.
- Also, note that a good portion of the assigmnent is already completed in the attachments provided. The assignments attached may need additional info to meet requirment lengths for this current assigment.