SCM Case Analysis: Transportation and Warehousing

Questions to consider

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the business community.

· For the following questions, refer to Terdiman's article, "UPS and the Art of Sorting a Million Packages a Day," linked in the Resources. 

. What are the advantages and disadvantages of their central cross dock Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky?

. What is the impact that cross docking has on inventory costs, material handling costs, transportation costs, and customer satisfaction?

Suggested Resources

The following optional resources are provided to support you in completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your courseroom.

Library Resources

The following e-books or articles from the Capella University Library are linked directly in this course:

· Blanchard, D. (2010).  Supply chain management best practices  (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

· Bhatnagar, A. (2009).  Textbook of supply chain management . Lucknow, India: Word-Press.

· Drake, M. (2011).  Global supply chain management . New York, NY: Business Expert Press.

· Greeff, G., & Ghoshal, R. (2004).  Practical e-manufacturing and supply chain management . Oxford, England: Newnes.

· Farooqui, S. U. (2010).  Encyclopedia of supply chain management: Volume I . Mumbai, India: Himalaya Books Pvt.

· Farooqui, S. U. (2010).  Encyclopedia of supply chain management: Volume II . Mumbai, India: Himalaya Books Pvt.

· Farooqui, S. U. (2010).  Encyclopedia of supply chain management: Volume III . Mumbai, India: Himalaya Books Pvt.

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Course Library Guide

A Capella University library guide has been created specifically for your use in this course. You are encouraged to refer to the resources in the  BUS-FP3022 – Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management library guide to help direct your research.

Internet Resources

Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have been either granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.

· HowStuffWorksVideos. (2005).  How UPS works . Retrieved from http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/111-how-ups-works-video.htm.

· Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.sustainable-scf.org/

· Terdiman, D. (2008).  UPS and the art of sorting nearly a million packages a day . CNET News. Retrieved from http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9974653-52.html.

Bookstore Resources

The resources listed below are relevant to the topics and assessments in this course and are not required. Unless noted otherwise, these materials are available for purchase from the  Capella University Bookstore . When searching the bookstore, be sure to look for the Course ID with the specific –FP(FlexPath) course designation.

· Chopra, S. (2019). Supply chain management: Strategy, planning and operation (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Assessment instructions

For this assessment, consider that you work for a company that develops and sells case studies and case study analyses. Your company's primary customers are colleges and universities wanting to use them within their courses, but your company also has customers using them for management training and development. Your manager asked you to conduct research and develop a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to explain your selected company's transportation and warehousing strategy to potential investors and lenders. She's specifically interested in you creating the presentation associated with one of a small set of possibilities she provided to you. You may use the same company you selected in Assessment 3 or select a different company from this list:

· L. L. Bean.

· Amazon.com.

· Starbucks.

· Intel.

· Johnson and Johnson.

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to explain your selected company's transportation and warehousing strategy to potential investors and lenders.

You and your manager discussed the high level outline of your presentation and agreed you should address the following items. As the basis for your research you can use any of the resources noted in this course, in the Capella library, and on the Internet.

· Slide 1: List the presentation title, the selected company name, the date, and your name.

· Slide 2: Analyze and describe the overall transportation objectives of the selected company.

· Slide 3: Describe and evaluate the modes of transportation that the company uses to move products from factory to customers, and recommend improvements to the modes of transportation.

· Slide 4: Identify the locations of the factories and warehouses.

· Slides 5–6: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the locations for the organization's factories and warehouses, and recommend strategies to mitigate the disadvantages.

· Slide 7: Analyze the economic and political factors that can impact their transportation and warehousing network.

· Slide 8: Analyze and describe how technology is used for managing the organization's transportation and warehousing network.

· Slide 9: Recommend improvements for the organization's transportation and warehousing network, and support those recommendations with examples and research.

· Slide 10: List at least three references.

You may use additional slides, if necessary. Provide your information as a bulleted list on the slides and insert explanations where applicable. Use the notes section in MS PowerPoint to add additional information and clarity to your presentation.