Supply Chain Management: ERP Solution
How well are public news articles about supply chain management argued? Here’s your chance to respond to the author or the editor, with your suggestions on how their article could be improved!
Select a publicly available, relevant newspaper article published in the last Tve years from one of the following online newspapers:
- The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/)
- Herald Sun (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/)
- Transport & Logistics News (http://www.tandlnews.com.au/)
- Australian Manufacturing (http://www.australianmanufacturing.com.au/)
Make sure you choose an article that enables you to either refute the topic, accept the main argument and reTne the key points, or highlight the strengths and weaknesses.
Write a critical review to the author or the editor of the publication, detailing your critique of the article, and justifying your opinions, with reference to both the material covered in Module 1 of this subject, and to the relevant academic literature (at least 3 academic sources). Make sure your response is engaging, wellinformed, and analytic – increase your chances of your response being published!
Remember to attach your chosen article as an appendix to the critical response paper, so that we can see the original author's work.
Read through the marking rubric for this assessment task carefully, before starting on your paper. Prepare your critical review as a Word document, addressed to the author or editor, of no more than 1000 words, and submit via the Assessment 1 submission link.
Important tips: I
- If you wish to use an article sourced from other newspapers (not listed above), you will need to seek an approval from your subject coordinator.
- Read through the instructions for Assessment 4 before starting your search for the newspaper article. Ideally, try to select an article that addresses the supply chain that you will be focusing on for Assessment 4.
- Read carefully through the marking guide for this assessment task, and make sure you understand the criteria of this task before you start.
- Attach the original article as an appendix to your review (not included in your word count)
Supply Chain Management: Partial Solution
Today, with advent of new technologies, it is found that the organizations are implementing several new modules to improve the overall efficiencies of the different departments. Further, with increased globalization, the organizations want to implement technological modules not only to increase the productivities of the employees but also to connect and communicate with all the branches in a better way (Pauka, 2018).
Considering this impact of technology, the supply chain department of the organization has also revamped their functions and strategies. The author mentions that the role of IT tools and techniques is large in empowering the different functions of the organization. It is noticed that the explosion of the e-commerce is pushing the companies to revise their supply chain strategies. The demand of different products has increased to a larger extent and hence it is important for the supply chain department to introduce new technologies that will help them perform their functions with better efficiency and in a quicker way (Yu, Xiong, & Cao, 2015).
Also, the competition between the ecommerce players and the Bricks-and-Mortar retailers is putting more pressure on the supply chain department of the organization. The author argues that the top-level management needs to implement an IT solution that is beyond the Excel spreadsheets and other such traditional solution (Pauka, 2018).
They need to look out for a better Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution that will manage all the functions of the Supply Chain Department in a better way. It is true that the ERP solution will eliminate repetitive processes and will reduce the manual efforts to enter necessary information (Swami & Shah, 2013).
The system will thereby streamline all the business processes and will help the senior management to focus on other aspects of the organization. The new ERP system for the supply chain will help in better forecasting and in denying the demands of the customers. The department can thereby plan their demand strategies, which will assist the organisation from the efforts and costs perspectives. The senior management, however, can monitor the performance of the ERP system and can judge on the overall performance (Swami & Shah, 2013).
