Case study report

I am in requirement of a case study report

The report should consist of the following:

Executive Summary – This should be an overview of your report but must include some background on your company and its strategy to help explain why you have selected your 6 topics as appropriate. Provide enough information about the company for your coach to judge the work.

Issues – You are looking to identify any issues that your 6 topics can help resolve

Operating Environment – Your coach needs to understand the background of the company in order to grade the paper. Provide enough about your market, competition, internal operations, etc. to suggest why reviewing the selected topics made sense.

Root Cause – You want to explain what caused the issue to be. Did the environment change? Did the company have the wrong strategy? Was it the right strategy but it wasn’t being properly implemented?

Alternatives – You only need to provide the pros and cons of your intended approach, but try to show consistency, strategic alignment and demonstrate your leadership skills.

Recommendation – Provide a good argument for whatever recommendations you are making, even if you recommend not to move forward.

Implementation Plan – Identify the critical elements and caveats of what you are proposing, along with who needs to be involved in decision making and implementation. How long will it take?

Monitor and Control – Consider what KPIs will measure the success of the implementation, and make sure they align with your company’s strategic intent.

Select any six of the following components to build into a report

Product Life Cycle and Logistics

Describe ways in which your organization should, or could, apply different logistics processes or strategies to items at different stages of the product life cycle. Include areas of convergence or divergence that provide more value or incur additional complexity to manage.

Logistics Organization

Describe your existing logistics organization and a strategic view to changing it. Include what would be required to make this change occur.

Inventory Cost Reduction

Describe any issues related to your existing inventory and transportation trade-offs and determine what would be required to improve it for your organization.

Location Decision

Describe the current process (or your best guess) for how distribution locations were set up by your company. Recommend adding an additional location (or closing one) and identify the costs and benefits of doing so.

Inland Ports

Describe how your organization could use inland ports to improve the logistics function, either from a cost or a service perspective.

The Perfect Order

Develop a metric for your company to track the perfect order. Describe the process for taking action on the metric to drive change for your customers.

CPFR

Develop a CPFR implementation plan, identifying the critical mass required to derive value from it.

Cycle Time Reduction

Develop an implementation plan to reduce cycle time for your products, including the supplier and the customer requirements.

EOQ/ETQ

Describe how your company might make use of EOQ or ETQ calculations to improve your logistics operation.

Safety Stock

Describe any issues related to your current safety stock strategy and identify how you could improve company profitability using statistical demand and lead time variability.

Carrier Reduction

Create a carrier reduction plan for your organization, showing the requirements to calculate the optimal number of carriers as well as how to implement it without negatively impacting the existing service levels.

Sustainability

Develop a strategic plan to improve sustainability of your transportation network.

Warehousing Fundamentals

Describe the factors that must be considered in setting up a warehouse and a materials-handling system. Make recommendations for a long-term plan for your organization.

Cross-Docking

Design a cross-dock plan for one of the lanes serviced by your organization. Include the required communications and any risks involved.

Outsourcing

Identify any outsourcing (or insourcing) opportunities for your existing operation and develop a plan showing the cost/benefit analysis.

Reverse Logistics

Develop a plan to implement a reverse logistics policy at your organization.