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ISCOM 361 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com ISCOM 361 Week 1
Purchasing Strategies ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 1 ISCOM
361 Week 1 DQ 2 ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 3 ISCOM 361
Week 2 Internal and External Supply Chain
Integration Presentation ISCOM 361 Week 2 Video
Analysis ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 1 ISCOM 361 Week 2
DQ 2 ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 3 ISCOM 361 Week 3
E-Procurement Business Case Development ISCOM 361
Week 3 Effective Supplier Evaluations ISCOM 361
Week 3 DQ 1 ISCOM 361 Week 3 DQ 2 ISCOM 361 Week
3 DQ 3 ISCOM 361 Week 4 Media Library Negotiating
Strategies and Tactics ISCOM 361 Week 4
Negotiation Plan Development ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ
1 ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 2 ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 3
ISCOM 361 Week 5 Risk Management Plan ISCOM
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com How would you
describe 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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What is the
difference 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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com How has technology
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 FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.iscom361aid.com ?Resources
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 professional of the chosen company or
industry, identify a purchased material or
component that is used to produce a specific
product. Analyze how your purchasing strategies
of this material or component will change
depending on the different stages of the Product
Life Cycle Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and
Decline. To perform this analysis consider the
following questions ?Where does the purchased
material or component fall in the Product Life
Cycle? Is this
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What negotiation
model 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.iscom361aid.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
logistics provider? Why or why not? How does
using such a provider create a competitive
advantage for an organization?
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 DQ 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com How do technology
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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com Resources Internet,
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 cycle. Prepare a 10- to
12-slide PowerPoint presentation with Speaker
Notes. Include pertinent company or industry
information as well as supporting graphics that
clearly depict the impact of integration
decisions on the companys financial and customer
satisfaction objectives. Identify potential
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ISCOM 361 Week 2 Video Analysis FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.iscom361aid.com vResources
Internet, 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.
Format the paper according to APA standards.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What is a supplier
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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What is global
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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What must retailers
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.iscom361aid
.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 to effectively
measure supplier performance because it doesnt
know which metrics to implement that will drive
the right changes. To make matters worse, your
company is working to become ISO9001 certified.
ISO90012008 requires supplier evaluation and
data analyses so this needs to be considered when
developing the Supplier Evaluation
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 E-Procurement Business Case
Development FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.iscom361a
id.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. Write a 700- to 1050-word paper in which the
team will ?Define the elements of establishing
E-Procurement with the commodity supplier.
?ERP/MRP system ?Transactions ?Forecasting
?Ordering ?Advance Shipping Notification
?Financial transactions ?Other- explain
?Supplier Communication ?Explain the benefits of
E-Procurement.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com What is the
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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com Discuss the concept
of 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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com Resources Internet,
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. Format the
paper according to APA standards. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Negotiation Plan Development
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.iscom361aid.com Reso
urces Internet, University Library, Textbook,
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
negotiation in no more than ten line items. 2.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word document with detailed
instructions on how you will use the negotiation
checklist and how to complete each column of the
checklist. Format the paper according to APA
standards. Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com How has measuring and
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
VISIT www.iscom361aid.com How do you see
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.iscom361aid.com Resour
ces 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. You
have been struggling with the supplier of roofing
nails for several months and you are fast
approaching the peak roofing season. The supplier
has been late on delivering orders and when
orders are delivered the boxes are damaged and
the quantities of nails in the boxes are
inaccurate. Each box should have 1000 nails, but
you are getting complaints from your customers
that they are only receiving partial quantities
in the boxes. The situation with the supplier is
getting so bad some of your major customers are
threatening to go to another
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 Risk Management Plan FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.iscom361aid.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. The
current situation with the Chinese supplier has
not been good. It is behind on deliveries due to
shortage of plastic resin from its supplier as
well as transportation delays coming into the
U.S. due to backups at
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