Assignment: Operations Management and Decision-Making Models
Length: 1500 words.
Your Task
For this assessment you need to prepare a report using the most recent year's bronze, silver or gold award winners of the Australasian Reporting Awards - Sustainability. The report should explain how your chosen company's operational strategies, supply and logistics systems and strategic decisions have supported the company to achieve its desired business outcomes.
Description
The Australasian Reporting Awards celebrate and acknowledge excellence in preparing annual reports. The awards are held annually with companies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific area being eligible to apply. The company chosen by students must; have won either a bronze, silver or gold award in the sustainability section of the awards in the most recent year.
The following learning outcomes are assessed in this assignment:
• Explain operational strategies and demonstrate the skills needed to build effective supply and logistics systems that support desired business outcomes.
• Analyse internal and external forces that impact business operations and utilise conceptual models to determine the ethical implications of day-to-day and strategic decisions.
Instructions
Your report needs to include the following headings:
1. INTRODUCTION - (250 Words) - Provide an overview of the company.
2. REPORT - In this section students need to address the following concepts (1000 words):
• Desired business outcomes - Provide information regarding the company's sustainability related strategic directions and their links to the company's operational imperatives.
• Internal and external factors - With the use of conceptual models, explain how the internal and external factors experienced by the company impacted on both their day-to-day and strategic decisions.
• Operational systems - Detail what and how the company ensured their operational systems, supply chain and logistic systems enabled them to addresses their sustainability priority.
3. CONCLUSION.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.