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ISCOM 361 Entire Course For more classes
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Individual Assignment Policies and Procedures
Summary ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 1 ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 1 For more classes
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capital goods? Some organizations do not include
the purchasing department in acquiring capital
goods. Is this effective? Why or why not?
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 2 For more classes
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between a policy and a procedure? Why is it
important for an organization to have a set of
policies and procedures? Should management
regularly review these policies and procedures?
Why or why not?
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 3 For more classes
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changed supply management in the last 20 years?
Have changes been positive? What are potential
disadvantages of not keeping up-to-date with
technology?
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 Purchasing Strategies
Centralized vs. Decentralized (New Syllabus) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Identify
a company or industry that you are either
familiar with or one with which you would like to
become more familiar. As a purchasing
professional of the chosen company or industry,
your job is to determine the type of purchasing
organizational structure that can effectively
manage procurement functions.
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 Purchasing Strategies For more
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Internet, University Library, Textbook Write a
700- to 1050-word paper that defines the
similarities and differences of the purchasing
strategy you will use at each stage of the
Product Life Cycle of your companys specific
product. Identify a company or industry that you
are either familiar with or one that you would
like to become more familiar with. As a
purchasing
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 1 For more classes
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does your organization use with suppliers? Is it
participative, antagonistic or something else?
Provide your reasoning. Does the organization
benefit from this model? How could it be improved?
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 2 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com Explain the role
third-party logistics providers play in your
organization. Based on Exhibit 17.8 on p. 643 of
Purchasing Supply Chain Management, is it
always advantageous to use a third-party
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 3 For more classes
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practices, such as Internet buying, affect
negotiation?
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 Internal and External Supply
Chain Integration Presentation For more classes
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University Library, Textbook Select one company
or industry used in the Week 1 Individual
Assignment. As a team, identify challenges and
benefits to supply chain internal and external
integration within the company or industry given
the impact of purchasing decisions at each stage
of the product life
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 Supplier quality Challenge
Incoming Receiving Inspection (New Syllabus) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Create a
10-slide visual presentation, with speakers'
notes, that outlines the components of a
receiving inspection plan. Select a commodity to
use as your example. Possible commodities
include Electrical components used in
smartphone assembly Bulk food products, such as
grains and liquids
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 Video Analysis For more classes
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University Library Watch the Cooperate With
Suppliers From The Start video. Write a 700-word
summary that critiques the video based on your
experiences.  Identify those areas that you agree
and disagree with the speaker.  Cite specific
examples to support your thoughts.
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 DQ 1 For more classes
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evaluation? Why is it important? When might an
organization conduct a supplier evaluation?
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 DQ 2 For more classes
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sourcing? Is it the most cost-effective option
for organizations? Why or why not? What are some
factors to consider?
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 DQ 3 For more classes
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consider when determining their product mix? Why
is having a proper product mix important?
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 Effective Supplier
Evaluations For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com Resources Internet, University Library,
Textbook Your Supply Chain Manager has assigned
you the responsibility of developing a new
Supplier Evaluation process for your company. 
Your company has experienced an unfavorable trend
in low productivity as a result of component
availability, re-working of product, and
increased inventory levels of nonconforming
material.  Your company cannot seem
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 E-Procurement Business Case
Development For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com Resources Internet, University Library,
Textbook Your team has been chosen to develop a
business case for implementing an E-Procurement
system for your commodity products. Identify a
company that you are familiar with and provide
one example of a commodity product they use.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 1 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com The parties to a
sourcing negotiation can discuss many issues
besides price. Select five non-price issues over
which a buyer and seller can reach agreement, and
explain why each issue might be important to the
buyer or seller.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 2 For more classes
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relationship among contract law, the UCC, and
commercial law? Why is it important for
purchasing managers to understand legal issues?
Isnt that what lawyers are for?
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 3 For more classes
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ethics. Why is the purchasing profession
particularly sensitive to this topic? What are
the different risks associated with unethical
behavior?
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Media Library Negotiating
Strategies and Tactics For more classes
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University Library, Textbook Watch the Media
Library Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
video. Write a 700-word summary of the video.
Include your thoughts about the validity of the
strategies and tactics mentioned, and why or why
not you would follow the recommendations. Include
application examples in your summary.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Negotiation Plan Development
(New Syllabus) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com You are a business
negotiations consultant who has been hired by a
start-up company to create a training guide for
its newly hired procurement specialists.   Write
a 1,050 word negotiations training guide that
includes  
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Negotiation Plan Development For
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Excel Using the purchase material or component
from your Week 1 writing assignment 1.     
Create a negotiation checklist in Excel format
that you would use during the Growth phase of the
Product Life Cycle.  It will need to address the
who, what, how, when, and where elements of
supplier
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 DQ 1 For more classes
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evaluating purchasing performance been limited in
the past? How has this changed? Do you agree an
organization must increase its efforts to measure
performance? Why or why not?
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 DQ 2 For more classes
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technology changing purchasing strategies in the
future? How might this affect your own
organization? What are some strategies that
companies can use to help employees deal with
these changes?
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 Managing a Crisis Simulation For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Resources
Internet, University Library, Textbook You are a
Supply Chain Manager of a building supply
company.  Your company sells building materials
to building contractors, home improvement
construction companies, as well as the
do-it-yourself weekend project homeowners.
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 Risk Management Plan (Custom
Writing) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om This is a custom writing Presentation, email
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done   Your company produces jet skis for the
U.S. market. One of your key suppliers of engine
components has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  
Your company is hitting its peak production
season and has sales forecasts of 2,000 units per
week for the next 12 weeks.   Your supplier has
enough remaining inventory of components to
support your production for 4 weeks. 
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 Risk Management Plan For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Your company
produces medical devices and purchases plastic
molded fittings from a company in Beijing, China.
It is rumored the Chinese supplier is being
acquired by a plastics company in Saratov,
Russia.  If this acquisition is completed, the
fabrication of the plastic fittings will be
relocated to Saratov. It is expected to take six
months to transition production to the new
location once the agreement is signed.
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