Homework: Supply Chain Designs
o Purpose: Explain the ongoing evolution of an industry ecosystem and evaluate associated risk, resilience, logistics, and emerging supply chain designs for a selected company.
Write a research paper that explains the ongoing evolution of the selected company's industry ecosystem and evaluates associated risk, resilience, logistics, and emerging supply chain designs.
Use the following outline to structure the headings and content for your research paper:
1. Introduction.
• State the purpose of the paper.
• Describe the structure of the paper.
2. Theory and Application: Supply Chain Designs.
• Explain the evolution of the industry ecosystem (past, present, and links to future).
o Explain the selected company's global supply chain design response.
o Explain elements of theory relevant to the selected company's supply chain and associated industry ecosystem.
o Consider including a figure or chart with supporting narrative.
• Evaluate levels of current vulnerability, risk, and anticipated resilience strategies for the selected company.
o Predict future vulnerability, risk, and anticipated resilience strategies.
• Evaluate direction and evolution of sustainable logistics and their supply chain systems for the selected company.
o How has your selected company modified, enhanced, and/or changed its supply chain designs?
o What are the potential future actions, modifications, and evolutions for the selected company's global supply chain design? Explain.
3. Global Risk Factors.
• Assess the effectiveness of the selected company's approach to current and projected future supply chain vulnerability, risk, and anticipated resilience strategies.
o Apply Part 2 of the Supply Chain Risk Assessment Survey to your assessment.
o Select 5 to 7 risk factors listed in Part 2 of the survey and provide a short assessment of each for your selected company.
o Evaluate the selected company's approach to projected future supply chain vulnerability, risk, and anticipated resilience strategies.
o Explain how you would suggest the company improves the strategy.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.