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NIAGARA COLLEGE BICG9502 – Global Logistics Management - PROJECT (15 Marks) Key dates: Submission via blackboard is due no later than 3pm Saturday, November 6, 2021 Individual Assignment Details

You have been hired as a Logistics Analyst for a large Global Logistics Consulting firm and your first assignment is to research the great things Amazon is doing. As your main and only sources of information, you have been tasked to use the course textbook and attached video of Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiafb0-gqF4 and address the following:

Part 1: Select one of the six(6)- topics listed in left column in the table below and in 50 words or less

Retell a key point of the topic

• (ie/ from the corresponding text chapter, describe your understanding of a concept in your own words) and

Part 2: in 100 words or less Relate your text topic that you selected to one of the six (6) Amazon video topics covered in the video and listed in the right column in table below

• (ie/ describe how your topic that you selected in Part 1 applies to the Amazon video topic in Part 2 and finally

Part 3: in 50 words or less Reflect on the above (Parts 1 & 2) by describing a real challenge you see

• (ie/ share your opinion what you would see as a challenge and what you would do to address the challenge.

TEXT TOPICS AMAZON VIDEO TOPICS

CHAPTER 3 - COST / INFRASTRUCTURE Cost

CHAPTER 15 - WAREHOUSING Before an order

CHAPTER 4 - MARKET ENTRY Fulfillment

Chapter 10 - Insurance Long Distance Delivery

Chapter 11/12/13 - Transportation Mode Last Mile

Chapter 20 - Communication Working Conditions

Assignment Format Specifications: • Late submissions will be deducted 25% per day including weekend. • Report must be typed in MS-Word, 12 font, double spaced, 200 word maximum for parts 1-3. • Upload to the assignments folder in Blackboard. Emailed/hard copies will not be accepted.

• Page 1: A title page including: your full name, student number, your submission date and Source Citations.

• Page 2: List/reference each Part and question you are answering. • All answers should be in complete sentences. • Maximum number of pages for report 2 pages.

• 5-mark deduction for each noncompliance point if prescribed format is not followed

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