executive summary

Boro Frozen Foods 2021 Capacity Issue for 2022

Date: {today’s date}

Prepared by: {Your Name}

An executive summary is designed primarily to serve the person who is potentially the decision maker for your project but may or may not at least initially, intend to read the entire report. This person or persons are also the people that determine how your career as a Supply Chain Analyst will go forward. State the main points of each section and emphasizes results, conclusions, and recommendations. Executive summaries are ideally suited to the needs of readers who are seeking advice about a decision or a course of action. These summaries are called executive summaries because some decision-makers rely wholly upon their advisors to read and evaluate the rest of the report. Be concise and too the point. Avoid redundancy. One page preferred. Anything over two pages in the narrative portion will suffer a loss of points.

Executive Summary

For this project, the Executive Summary should summarize who you are, what the problem is, and what the overall intent of the project is. Executive Summary and Current Assessment do not have to be in separate paragraphs but can be combined.

Current Assessment

The current assessment section should provide the reader with a summary at a high level of the current state and the issues to be addressed in the items bullet pointed below. The bullet points themselves are to identify the four areas to address and should be included in the Executive Summary.

· Evaluate alternative warehouse options

· Conduct an ABC analysis to develop a cycle count program

· Conduct a line balancing exercise to determine viable labor reductions and improve productivity

· Conduct an SKU analysis to address capacity issues for 2022 and increase capacity and productivity.

Warehouse Options

{Summarize what the options evaluated were, the methodology used to determine the optimal solution, and any relevant factors other than pure cost that entered into the evaluation. Costs of all options are required. You are summarizing the Warehouse problem.}

ABC Analysis/Cycle count recommendations

{Summarize the methodology used to determine the optimal solution, and any relevant factors or assumptions that entered into the evaluation. You are summarizing the ABC problem.}

Line balancing recommendations

{Summarize the methodology used to determine the optimal solution, and any relevant factors or assumptions that entered into the evaluation. You are summarizing the Line Balancing problem. Bottom line savings and potential risks should be addressed}

SKU rationalization

{Summarize the methodology used to determine the optimal solution, and any relevant factors or assumptions that entered into the evaluation. You are summarizing the SKU rationalization problem. Highlight productivity and capacity improvements}

Summary

{End your report with a suitable closing detailing the final results with an emphasis on productivity improvements including total cost savings, capacity, labor reductions, and any other major findings}

Charts, graphs and tables should be included at the end of the report on one or two separate pages titled Supporting Documents. Any documents in this portion can and should be labeled and referenced in the earlier sections. Example: If you have a table summarizing the Warehouse Options you might title it Table 1 Warehouse Options. You may also reference any type of information, charts, tables, or graphs from one of the earlier assignments but remember if it is incorrect in the earlier assignment it will also be incorrect here.

Remove the { } and use only black as the font color. Font size in the body of the document should be Arial 12. Italics should not be used in the final document. Any submission that fails to comply with this will lose10 points.

Grading will be based on the following:

Appearance and professionalism of report 6 points. The submissions that stand out from the others will be worth 6, good but not great will be worth 4-5, average will be worth 3 and anything that would result in upper management questioning whether you should continue as an employee 1-2 points. Conciseness will be rewarded.

Grammar 4 points: Outstanding with no issues 4, Good with minimal errors 3, Average with one major or several minor errors 2, Poor with numerous issues 1

Content: 12 points- three per topic. Must be accurate and understandable and hold the reader’s interest. Failure to address a topic will carry a 4 point penalty.

Summary and selling your ideas- 3 points possible Best in class 3 points, if your report is likely to be chosen as a viable solution 2 points, may consider part as viable but not entirely 1 point, and if it not considered viable at all 0.

Charts and graphs 4 points.

Save your summary and name it your last name Executive Summary Final and submit to dropbox. Example: mine would be saved as:

Sawyer Executive Summary Final 1 point for properly named file