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2. ISCOM 473 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 1 DQs ISCOM 473 Week 1 Individual Assignment Article Analysis Paper ISCOM 473 Week 2 DQs ISCOM 473 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Procurement Strategies Presentation ISCOM 473 Week 3 DQs ISCOM 473 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sourcing Process Evaluation ISCOM 473 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Outsourcing Insourcing Proposal ISCOM 473 Week 4 DQs

3. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 1 DQs For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 1 DQ 1 What is your organization’s buying strategy? How did it establish its buying strategy? What procurement strategies can an organization use to improve its overall performance? Week 1 DQ 2 How does your organization initiate buying products and/or services? Is it efficient? Why or why not? What are the benefits of a company having a buying department as compared to each department ordering on its own? How does buying add value to an organization?

4. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 1 Individual Assignment Article Analysis Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Using a local newspaper, news magazines, the Internet, or other additional article sources, locate a current (no older than four months) news article that addresses the strategic role of procurement in an organizational setting. Prepare a 700-1,050-word paper that explains the similarities and/or differences between the purchasing role listed in the article and your organization's current purchasing role, or one with which you are familiar. Identify any improvements that might enhance your selected organization’s procurement function.

5. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 2 DQs For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 2 DQ1 How is outsourcing domestically different from outsourcing internationally? If your organization uses outsourcing, what is the process used? Why would you consider outsourcing (buy versus make)? Week 2 DQ2 When would you have multiple rounds of bidding? What evaluation criteria would be used to initially select a supplier? What criteria are used to evaluate supplier performance? What factors should be considered in supplier selection both domestically and globally?

6. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 2 Individual Assignment Review Sourcing Steps For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Choose your current organization or one with which you are familiar. Write in your own words a 700-word paper that assesses the steps of the sourcing process as it relates to your current organization or one you are familiar with. Discuss and provide an example of how each step is performed. Review how your organization processes can be improved from these steps. Format your paper according to APA standards.

7. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 2 Team Assignment Insourcing and Outsourcing Practices For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Your team has been chosen as consultants. Use the organization identified in Week 1 to review the current insourcing and outsourcing practices of the product offering. Include the following in your analysis: The product offering and how it is used The countries operated in and the pros and cons of servicing them Evaluation of the current suppliers being used Review of any problems with current suppliers Recommendations for change and improvement in the current process

8. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 3 DQs For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 3 DQ 1 What is the goal of negotiating? Why is planning critical to the negotiation process? When would an organization negotiate for an item or product instead of releasing a simple purchase order? Week 3 DQ 2 What are the components of cost analysis? When would you use cost analysis versus price analysis? How is one better than the other at different times?

9. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sourcing Process Evaluation For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Using the assigned readings, ERR library, and for any other additional sources, prepare a 700-1,050-word summary, accompanied by a flowchart, that describes/outlines the steps that occur in a typical sourcing process for a global manufacturing firm. Provide a brief evaluation of the steps as illustrated in your flowchart. In your summary, be sure to include the following: Translating corporate objectives into procurement goals Establishing business unit requirement processes Conducting supply market research

10. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 3 Team Assignment Negotiations Strategies Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Identify a negotiation scenario from a professional organization or credible supply chain website. Prepare a 700-word paper in which you analyze the negotiation scenario. Address the following in your paper: Analyze the elements of negotiation(s). Select three negotiation strategies and describe each of them. Provide scenarios where each negotiation strategy would be either appropriate, or inappropriate, for a negotiator to use to secure a successful outcome.

11. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 DQs For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 4 DQ 1 Describe your organization’s steps to issue a purchase order. How does your organization ensure that requirements flow from the first tier supplier to second and third tier suppliers? How does effective contract administration lead to better supplier management? Week 4 DQ 2 Why would an organization be interested in developing longer-term relationships with selected suppliers? Why would a supplier be interested? How can an organization further develop its suppliers?

12. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 Individual Assignment Negotiating Across Cultures Paper and Presentation For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Read the following scenario: Select two countries to research. Research your selected countries and document each country’s cultural and ethnic composition as well as the populations’ ethnic makeup, include percentages (for example: Malaysia Ethnic groups: Malaysian 50.2%, Chinese 24.5%, Indigenous 11.0%, Indian 7.2%, Non-Malaysian citizens 5.9 %, Others 1.2%).

13. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 Individual Assignment Supplier Evaluation and Contract Review (Rocky Plain Brewing Ltd and Gilpin Printing) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Read the case study of Rocky Plain Brewing Ltd and Gilpin Printing in Chapter 15 ofPurchasing and Supply Management, pages 473-475. Answer the following questions in your discussion in 700 words: Explain what the Rocky Plains could have done to improve the supplier relationship with Gilpin. Explain the type of metrics that could have been used to measure success with Gilpin. Explain the factors that were used by Mike to make his decision to switch suppliers.

14. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Negotiations Strategies Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Negotiations Strategies Paper

15. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 4 Team Assignment Supplier Evaluation Case Review (Delphi Corporation) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com The entire team will read the Delphi Corporation Case study in Chapter 13 of Purchasing and Supply Management, pages 387-391. Discuss this case with your team and submit a 1,050-word paper that includes: Summary of the case From the company you chose in Week 1, how can some of the strategies Delphi has taken relate? Provide examples of how your organization is similar to Delphi in their approach and how they are different.

16. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 5 Individual Assignment Future Trends in Purchasing Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Based on current events and trends in the sourcing and procurement environment, prepare a 1,050-1,750-word paper hypothesizing the future of purchasing in the global economy. In your paper, be sure to address the following: Benefits and risks of e-business Future opportunities and trends in purchasing Future challenges in purchasing

17. ISCOM 473 Teaching Effectively-- snaptutorial.com ISCOM 473 Week 5 Team Assignment eCommerce Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com From the organization chosen in Week 1, review Ch. 4 from the text. Review the ERP and Procurement tools currently used to manage suppliers. Design/create a process map that shows the Information Systems and Supply Management Process. Include how information is managed and the various departments the information is sent to. Create a PowerPoint ® presentation of 10 slides (not including the title and references slides) with speaker's notes that discusses this process

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