Each
student is required to write a web research paper that is somewhat different
than any other she/he may have written in the past.
§The subject of this research paper shall be two noteworthy*
Operations and Supply Chain Management (OM & SCM) practices of a
company chosen by the student.
§The chosen company must be large enough and/or unique enough to
have been subject of prior published research and reports.
§The two chosen noteworthy* OM & SCM strategies/practices
shall be related to those covered in this class.
§The paper shall have a Cover Page (five lines only) and a
References Page (min. 5 independent references).
§The paper must be well written in paragraph format and should be
both spell-checked and “clarity-checked.”
§The body of this consolidated paper should only be one page,
single-spaced with a 12-point font (papers longer or shorter than one page
will be penalized). It should include a short paragraph identifying the
company’s name, description of the business, primary goods/services, and
why you selected this particular company.
§The body of the paper shall include the two noteworthy* topics
which must be extensively researched, analysis and concisely consolidated
into two to four paragraphs.
§The body of the paper shall also include three (3)
well-thought-out questions that could be asked if the student had an
interview with the company. These questions must be intriguing, succinct,
reflective of student’s intelligence, knowledge of OM & SCM, and
student’s acquired information about the company’s operations.
*
[Noteworthy, as in Outstanding or Remarkable; OM & SCM strategies and
practices that are different from the company’s competitors. e.g.,
Disney’s Forecasting Strategy and Sustainability Strategies are superior to
their competitors and are “noteworthy” for a research paper. e.g., Walmart’s
Supply Chain Management Strategy and Inventory Management are “noteworthy.”]
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