Milestone 2: Module 4-2 Paper

QSO 700 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: For the final project, you will create a Product Launch Comprehensive Strategy and Professional Reflection to demonstrate proficiency in all areas of operations and project management.

In Milestone Two, you will submit the Manufacturing or Service, Production/Resource Scheduling and Inventory Management Brief, which will become part of Component 2, due in Module Eight. In this brief you will begin defining the manufacturing or service-related requirements necessary to support the introduction of a new product or service. You will propose the manufacturing system (if appropriate), propose how inventory (if any) will be managed, and begin the high-level estimates on capacity and/or resource planning. A detailed process flow chart must be developed showing the recommended service or manufacturing process. The instructor will provide feedback on this milestone to help you shape your final capstone project.

Critical Elements

 Requirements: Identify the unique manufacturing or service-related requirements to support the new product or service.

 Inventory Management: Select an inventory management approach that supports the planned supply chain.

 Capacity Planning: Develop high-level estimates for output of the new product/service.

 Process Flow Chart: Create a process flow of the new product/service flow that leverages standard process flow chart shapes and techniques. May leverage tools such as Microsoft Visio for flow chart development.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your draft must contain all of the elements listed above. It should be 3–5 pages in length (excluding the title page and references), using 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. You may include summary pictures, charts, graphs, or other explanatory diagrams as needed to successfully explain the concept and implementation, but this detailed supporting documentation should be provided in appendices. Your paper should follow APA guidelines. You must include at least three scholarly sources. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and then include those sources on a reference page.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Not Proficient (0%) Value

Main Elements Includes most of the main elements Does not include any of the main elements 15 Critical Thinking Provides logical conclusions and defends with

examples

Does not provide logical conclusions 15

Requirements Identifies the unique manufacturing or

service-related requirements to support the new product or service

Does not identify requirements 20

Inventory Management Selects an inventory management approach

that supports the planned supply chain

Does not select an inventory management

approach

10

Capacity Planning Develops high-level estimates for capacity

output of the new product/service

Does not develop estimates for capacity 10

Process Flow Chart Creates a process flow of the new product/service flow that leverages standard process flow chart shapes and techniques; may leverage tools such as Microsoft Visio for flow chart development

Does not create a process flow chart 20

Articulation of Response Submission does not have critical errors

related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

Submission has critical errors related to

citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%