SCM Case Analysis: Forecasting and Planning

CRITERIA 

NON-PERFORMANCE 

BASIC 

PROFICIENT 

DISTINGUISHED 

Describe an organization's business model.

Does not identify an organization's business model.

Identifies an organization's business model, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Describes an organization's business model.

Provides a diagram or visual to explicitly describe an organization's business model. 

Explain an organization's supply chain strategy.

Does not identify an organization's supply chain strategy.

Identifies an organization's supply chain strategy, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Explains an organization's supply chain strategy.

Compares and contrasts an organization's supply chain strategy with another organization's strategies. 

Analyze the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Does not identify the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Identifies the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain, but does not explain their significance or impact.

Analyzes the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain.

Analyzes the global challenges that an organization faces in its supply chain and discusses strategies to minimize the challenges. 

Explain the importance of aggregate planning to an organization's supply chain and its partners.

Does not identify the importance of aggregate planning to an organization's supply chain and its partners.

Identifies the importance of aggregate planning to an organization's supply chain and its partners, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Explains the importance of aggregate planning to an organization's supply chain and its partners.

Validates the importance of aggregate planning to an organization's supply chain and its partners. 

Describe the role demand forecasting plays in an organization's supply chain strategy.

Does not identify the role demand forecasting plays in an organization's supply chain strategy.

Identifies the role demand forecasting plays in an organization's supply chain strategy, but does not explain its significance or impact.

Describes the role demand forecasting plays in an organization's supply chain strategy.

Analyzes the role demand forecasting plays in an organization's supply chain strategy. 

Explain how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Does not explain how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Explains how pricing promotions are used, but does not connect the explanation to change demand.

Explains how pricing promotions are used to change demand.

Analyzes how pricing promotions are used to change demand. 

Exhibit proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Does not exhibit proficiency in writing and critical thinking; does not appropriately attribute source.

Exhibits inconsistent proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources.

Exhibits proficiency in writing, critical thinking, and academic integrity by appropriately attributing sources, and supports analysis with relevant research.