Assignment Questions for Project

Answer the following questions with respect to your respective Projects and industries selected.
Submit them in the office of the Module Leader.

1. What are the key Supply Chain performance measures for your selected industry?
2. Describe the efficiency frontier and the inefficient practices been observed for the industry
selected. At what levels of service the industry achieves cost efficiency?
3. Discuss the following:
a. Order delivery lead time
b. Responsiveness
c. Delivery reliability
d. Product variety
4. What is COPP and which model will you be following as per the industry standards in terms of
MTS, MTO and CTO? How can you be more innovative?
5. Your industry follows Push strategy or Pull Strategy? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using any of these strategies? How do you propose to make it better and
different?
6. Describe your product as functional or innovative. How can you change the segmentation to
cater to larger market base?
7. SCOR model for your industry
8. How can you achieve the following?
a. Cost reduction
b. Improve revenue and profitability
c. Improve operational efficiency, and
d. Reduce working capital
9. In the case studies selected by you, identify and describe how did they achieve efficiency
frontier, supply chain optimization, supply chain integration? And how is supply chain
restructuring possible?
10. What are the criteria on which an organization takes make or buy decision? What is the
underlying logic?
11. What activities can usually be outsourced?
12. What are the factors which might result into making a firm hollow? Is there any probability of
your organization becoming a hollow firm? How do you avoid that?
13. Discuss the Make vs buy perspective on the basis of achieving economies of scale, Agency Costs,
Transaction Costs, and especially in terms of incomplete contracts for your industry chosen.
14. Discuss purchase portfolio matrix for the industry selected.
a. Identify the routine products
b. Identify the leverage products
c. Identify the strategic products
d. Identify the bottleneck products and their supply chain issues, if any.
15. How is Reverse auction going to help you to make your supply chain better?