10-15 SLIDES WITH 100-200 WORD SPEAKER NOTES AND REFERENCES. NO PLAGARISM. PLEASE FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS.

The CEO, knowing that professional logistics expertise has been missing from her organization, has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint Presentation of 10–15 slides for the rest of the senior and middle management teams. In it, she has asked that you pick a mass merchandiser with international retail locations that your firm may be delivering to.

The heart of the PowerPoint should be an overview of the steps that are needed to make a good location decision, whether it is for an additional manufacturing facility in some other state or country, or a new distribution center location in another state or country.

She asked that you use this made-up data to base your presentation on. Being a stickler for formatting, she requires that you do the following:

• Use a colored background for your slides
• Have few words but lots of eye-catching graphics, clip art, or pictures on each slide
• Have speaker notes of 100–200 words for each slide
• Assume the presentation should last 30–45 minutes and should have 10–15 slides

The data to base the presentation on is as follows:

1. The retailer has 200 retail locations all over the United States.
2. Right now, all shipments come from the East Coast manufacturing plant finished goods warehouse.
3. Western United States sales growth rates are expected to be double that of the Eastern United States.
4. The retailer has a total of 50 stores located outside of the United States, mostly in Europe, where population growth is averaging 1% a year.
5. It has no retail locations in India, China, or Mexico, where on average, population growth is averaging 10% into the future.
6. Your product is a “high-cube” product, like a refrigerator or color television.
7. The raw materials for your manufacturing facility are also high-cube and have a lot of cardboard packaging (which takes up space) to protect the high-dollar value components that the factory buys.

Finally, the CEO reminds you that this presentation is meant to be a how-to guide for the overall decision-making process that you will be using in your future assignments.

400-600 WORDS WITH REFERENCE AND NO PLAGARISM

 

In one of your initial meetings with the chief executive officer (CEO), she asked you to identify a number of the typical criteria used when making new location decisions. Complete the following:

• Describe and list at least 8 specific criteria to use.
• Explain the logic of why each criterion should be important.
• On a relative scale of importance, assign a high, medium, or low weight to each of the 8 criteria.
• List your experience with the subject matter. If you have no experience, you can use a case study or article of instsance where the concepts of the assignments and reading can be substituted for experience.

Do not put all of this information into 1 paragraph; instead use 8 paragraphs, answering all 3 questions for each of the 8 criteria in a separate paragraph. A chart would also be acceptable. IF YOU USE A CHART IT WILL NEED TO BE LABELED: CRITERIA, DESCRIPTION, AND IMPORTANCE

12-15 PowerPoint Presentation with 100-200 words of speaker notes with REFERENCES AND NO PLAGARISM

In preparation for your overall logistics White Paper Recommendation to the CEO, she has asked you to give her a “taste” of the different kinds of logistic systems and decisions that different industries use. You decide to prepare a PowerPoint presentation comparing and contrasting the logistics systems that are commonly used in the following 3 industries (include each of these in your presentation):

1. Describe the steps in making sure that flights take off on time for an airline. Describe the different steps that must occur for an on-time plane departure. For example, how does the airline make sure that the plane is properly fueled on a timely basis?
2. Describe the logistics system that overnight small package delivery companies use to ensure that timely delivery of undamaged packages occurs on a consistent basis. Discuss how packages are scheduled for pick-up and are picked up, tracked, and transported to the final destination, along with any other key activities.
3. Describe the logistics steps that large mass merchandiser global supply chains use to ensure timely availability of inventory for routine and sales merchandise needs. This discussion must begin with the transportation from the foreign factory to its nearby port, and continue from there until it arrives at the mass merchandiser’s regional warehouses.