Essay Identify 2 Emerging Trends in Supply Chain and Logistics – Report Writing – Management Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Assessment Task: Project Report
Part of the project is on Supply Chain Strategies as Drivers of Competitive Advantage.
This part tests your ability to identify the recent trends in strategic operations management and supply chains and their future impacts on multi-national and/or Australian businesses and industries. The objective here is to ensure students are not only familiar with the drivers of supply chain competitive advantage in Mentzer’s textbook but those are not exhaustive and/or can be complemented with other emerging trends in strategic operations and supply chain management.
To start, students need to familiarise themselves with the twelve drivers of supply chain competitive advantage which are explained in the Mentzer’s book.  
–  All students have access to the the electronic copy of the Mentzer’s textbook via RMIT library (Mentzer, J. (2004). Fundamentals of supply chain management twelve drivers of competitive advantage (Links to an external site.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.). 
–  In this book, 12 supply chain strategies/practices have been discussed which could result in achieving competitive advantage.   Students are required to familiarise themselves with these strategies.

Stage 1 – Identify 2 emerging trends in supply chain and logistics. Provide a short description and background on each.
–Identify 2 new emerging trends which will significantly impact the supply chains, operations, and logistics systems. Briefly describe and discuss each of them and explain their impacts.

Stage 2 – Introduce two specific strategies and/or solutions to maximize the benefits and minimize the damages from this trend for the selected industry.–  Following your analysis and based on the data, interviews, reports, and any other accessible valid recourses you are expected to come up with an idea of how the selected industry/business sector should revise their strategies in order to maximize their benefits from the potential opportunities identified before (resulted by the selected emerging trend) and minimize the negative impacts of the identified threats (resulted by the selected emerging trend). Your idea must include minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 proposed strategies/plans/directions to be followed by the industry/business sector.