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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator/ISCOM 476.COM
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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Entire Course
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• ISCOM 476 Week 1 DQ 1
• ISCOM 476 Week 1 DQ 2
• ISCOM 476 Week 2 Learning Team Riordan
  Manufacturing Supply Chain Evaluation
• ISCOM 476 Week 2 DQ 1
• ISCOM 476 Week 2 DQ 2
• ISCOM 476 Week 3 Individual Assignment Meditech
  Surgical Case Paper
• ISCOM 476 Week 3 DQ 1
• ISCOM 476 Week 3 DQ 2

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 1 DQ 1
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• What is competitive advantage?
• How can the supply chain affect competitive
  advantage?
• What competitive advantage opportunities does the
  supply chain in your organization underutilize?

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• ISCOM 476 Week 1 DQ 2
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• Is your supply chain collaborating with other
  organizations? Why or why not?
• What benefits do they get from these
  collaborations?
• What are some potential risks associated with
  these collaborations?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 2 DQ 1
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• What are the basic components of a supply chain?
  How do these components interact with each other?
  How do they influence each other? How can you
  plan for optimum performance between components
  in the supply chain?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 2 DQ 2
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• What are the basic process steps for designing a
  supply chain? Is the order of the process steps
  important? Why or why not? How can you tell if
  the process is meeting your performance
  requirements?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 2 Learning Team Riordan
  Manufacturing Supply Chain Evaluation
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• Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary for
  Riordans executive management team with respect
  to the supply chain required for manufacturing
  the new perfume bottles. Consider the following
• Riordan has completed a high-level strategic
  business initiative to leverage their supply
  chain as a competitive advantage to improve
  customer satisfaction.
• Riordan performed a market analysis and decided
  to create a new line of bottles

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 3 DQ 1
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• What was one problem identified in the Riordan
  supply chain? What is the root cause of this
  problem? What steps can be taken to ensure that
  the problem does not reoccur?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 3 DQ 2
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• Imagine that you just found out that a family
  member of your buyer received an expensive gift
  from one of Riordans suppliers. What actions are
  you going to take? Is it ethical for the family
  member to keep the gift? Why or why not? What
  potential issues may arise from this situation?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 3 Individual Assignment Meditech
  Surgical Case Paper
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• Complete the Meditech Surgical case study located
  at the end of Ch. 1 in the text.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper with complete
  responses to the four questions at the end of the
  case.
• Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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• ISCOM 476 Week 4 DQ 1
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• Can you improve something you cannot measure? Why
  or why not? What metrics does your organization
  use to assess supply chain performance? What are
  the benefits of performance metrics? How does
  your organization use these metrics to improve
  performance or competitive advantage?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 4 DQ 2
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• How are leadership skills different from
  management skills? How are they the same? How may
  management skills differ along the supply chain?
  What skills are equally important throughout?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 4 Individual Assignment Dell Inc.
  Case Paper
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• Complete the Dell Inc. Improving the Flexibility
  of the Desktop PC Supply Chain case located at
  the end of Ch. 6 in the text.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you
  respond to the Dell case study and answer the
  following questions
• Why does L5 incur higher manufacturing and
  logistics costs than L6? Identify costs incurred
  by L5 and not by L6. Identify any costs incurred
  to only L6 and not L5.
• Which of the six proposed manufacturing
  solutions should Dell implement based on survey
  results (Fig. 6-1)? Why? What are the pros and
  cons of this recommendation?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 5 DQ 1
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• How can a company identify current trends in an
  industry? What tools can an organization use to
  differentiate between long-term trends and
  short-term fads? How can an organization know
  when to follow a new trend in the industry?

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 5 DQ 2
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• Describe products that are truly global. Describe
  what organizations that deliver global products
  do regionally within their business to ensure
  regional business.

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 5 Individual Supply Chain
  Operations Paper and Presentation
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• ISCOM 476 Week 5 Individual Supply Chain
  Operations Paper and Presentation

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 5 Learning Team Riordan Business
  Model Implementation Plan Paper
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• Write a 3,500- to 4,200-word paper in which you
  address and complete the following three phases
• Phase 1 Using the Learning Team business model
  implementation plan, design a detailed supply
  chain process flow diagram for Riordan. The
  process flow diagram must be accompanied by a
  1-page explanation of the flow, which includes
• Estimate the cycle times of each step in the
  process flow.

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ISCOM 476 Innovative Educator

• ISCOM 476 Week 5 Learning Team Riordan Business
  Model Implementation Plan Presentation
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• Prepare a 6-to 8-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation with speaker notes illustrating the
  three phases of the project.
• Include a flowchart illustrating the supply
  chain.

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