Assignment Details

Please read the article ‘How are companies managing supply chains during Covid?’ and use this as a framework for your answer together with appropriate secondary research.

1. Define supply chain management (SCM) and explain why the management of this process is important.
2. Explore the evolution in modern supply chain management and why have some companies started to approach their SCM in new ways in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
3. Explain the importance of a customer focus in SCM and describe how the customer experience may be impacted by operational aspects within downstream supply chain activities.
4. Using the value chain as a framework for your answer, describe two ways of improving supply chain performance.
5. Describe three key skills appropriate to supply chain management and explain the importance of these in SCM.
6. Summarise the key aspects of the report.