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(Solution) CIPS Advanced Level Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award (APDP)
- In summary, this assessment, has focused on evaluating the process of leading a project team for implementing a new category management.
- For achieving this, British American Tobacco (BAT) in Malaysia has been used as an organisation of interest.
- The selected category of spend is technology and particularly the procurement of high speed machines for meeting the market demand. The rationale of this is that as an international organisation, BAT organisation engages both local and international suppliers in sourcing of technology.
- Considering this high demand, there has been challenges which sustainability of their sourcing approach. Therefore, BAT has been prompted to invest in a system which is modernised for ensuring modernisation of the procurement and supply process in BAT.
- For the Procurement and Supply Management (PS&M) tasked with the responsibility of procuring the technology system tend to take part in learning and development strategies, improving the suppliers relations, increasing alternation of the suppliers relations, high-level inclusion of stakeholders and to transform technology.
(Solution) CIPD Question 3- For and Against use of performance appraisals in formulating pay progression decisions
(Solution) CIPD 5CO02 interpret analytical data using appropriate analysis tools and methods. (AC 2.1)
(Solution) CIPS ADNOC Module: Global Strategic Supply Chain Management APGSS
This business report has been prepared to evaluate the global strategic approach to managing organisation supply chain. The organisation of focus is Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) operating in United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil and gas sector. In this highly competitive business environment, management of the supply chain is instrumental.
To achieve the intended aim of this report, the area of focus in evaluation included impact of market changes on the supply chain, sustainable global sourcing decisions, strategic logistical implications of globalisations and impact of supply chain management on corporate performance.
This has been enabled by referencing on various CIPS module notes models including SWOT, STEEPLED, Mendelow Matrix, Kraljic Matrix and Porter’s 5 Forces among others. Further, apart from the desk research available in ADNOC, secondary research has similarly been pursued.
The findings in this report evidence that market changes impact on the supply chain are influenced by the internal and external factors in the business environment.
Also, the findings indicate that sustainable global sourcing decisions impact the social, ethical and environment performance in selection of their suppliers. For ADNOC, priority is given to corporate social responsibility, responsible procurement and environment procurement. The strategical logistical implications of globalisation have been linked to inventory holdings, international logistics strategies, extending transport pipeline and multi-modal transportation.
From the findings in this business report, various gaps have been identified which can be managed through implementation of the following recommendations;
- Invest in collaboration, networking and technology for sustainable supply chain
- Improving supply chain development by providing capacity development for PS&M teams
- Holistic inclusion of stakeholders in conflicts management
- To include all tiers of supply chain for success in globalisation to manage all risks and performance challenges