Logistics and Supply Chain
Write a research paper that analyzes and evaluates the role of collaboration in your selected company’s approach to GSCM. Use the following outline to structure the headings and content for your research paper:
Introduction.
State the purpose of the paper.
Describe the structure of the paper.
Regional Trade Agreements.
Identify the regional and other trade agreements that affect your selected company.
What issues must you be most aware of?
What risks are important?
Analyze the consequences of choosing wrong characteristics when classifying products for tariffs. (Use the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) site by the U.S. International Trade Commission in your analysis.) Choose one of the following options:
Option A: Choose a product your company sells globally that has various tariff schedules depending on region, which you can find using the HTS page. Using this page, examine the various tariffs that can be applied depending on the source and type. How much will it affect your profitability? Would it be worth spending the time to figure out source and type?
Option B: Assume your company is importing salmon from Finland. You do not know where it originates or what type of salmon it is. Using the HTS page, examine the various tariffs that can be applied depending on the source and type. How much will it affect your profitability? Would it be worth spending the time to figure out source and type?
Apply the NAFTA tribunal process to navigate laws that may impact the selected company. Choose one of the following options:
Option A: Locate a city in Mexico or Canada where your company is operating. Recently, this small town has enacted green effluent laws that will affect your profitability. Assuming your margin is very small, any increase in costs will damage your profitability. What recourse do you have? How would you go about handling this issue? Identify areas of uncertainty and/or knowledge gaps that may impact your strategy.
Option B: Your company processes and cans salmon in Delores Hidalgo, Mexico. Recently, the small town has enacted green effluent laws that will affect your profitability. Assuming your margin is very small, any increase in costs will damage your profitability. What recourse do you have? How would you go about handling this issue? Identify areas of uncertainty and/or knowledge gaps that may impact your strategy.
Global Collaborations.
Describe the selected company’s outsourcing strategy in detail. (Integrate the executive summary you published for the discussion in Unit 2.)
Include the risks you found.
Evaluate whether the company’s outsourcing strategy is sustainable.
Explain how you would change the system to make it (more) sustainable.
Global Supply Chain Strategy.
Describe the selected company’s global supply chain in detail.
What model does it appear to be using?
Do you find your company to be following best practices, using the 4R model versus the APICS report?
What are the consistencies and inconsistencies you find?
Global Risk Factors.
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