Week Four Assignment – Report
Instructions
• Students are required to complete a report and presentation on the project.
The purpose of the project is to demonstrate your depth of understanding of the course concepts. This applications project will also help you to retain the key material of this course for years to come.
Supply Market Analysis of a Transportation or Warehouse Market: This project is a group project. Groups of 3 are required; however, exceptions for groups of 2 or 4 may be necessary based on class size.
• Report must include the following:
• Market size, Trends, Cost Structure, Key Developments
• Analyze at least 3 Key Players
• Financial Health Evaluation
• SWOT Analysis
• Porters 5 Forces
• Industry Trends
• Price/Rate Outlook
• Sourcing Recommendation: Which suppliers should you engage with? Which companies should you avoid?
Provide an Executive Summary (in lieu of an Abstract) and an Introduction (which includes an overview of the company and your report). You will be graded on how well you understand your supply market. Your team must produce a report of between 10 – 15 pages containing the above elements (excluding cover page, Executive Summary, Appendix and References).
Documenting your project
Reports must be in 12-point font, double spaced, and APA guidelines should be strictly followed. Project work will be graded on a number of criteria, including: conformance to prescribed content and format, grammar, readability, and the use of technical notations and diagrams. See rubric for details of assessment. Teams will be scored on your consolidated work, so collaboration is required! Individual scores will be adjusted for each student based on their Peer Feedback Rating.
ONLY ONE TEAMMEMBER should upload the final report for their team.
All written assignments must be the students’ original ideas and own work. Students’ work will be checked by TurnIt In software against plagiarism. Students found plagiarizing are subject to penalties outlined in the Policies and Procedures section of the National University Catalog, which may include a failing grade for the work in question or for the entire course.
Turnitin has been allowed for your Final Project assignment submission. Turnitin is an anti-plagiarism software program that reviews submissions for plagiarism potential and creates opportunities to help students identify how to properly attribute sources. Turnitin compares submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works in various databases.
After a paper is processed, an Originality Check is generated detailing the percentage of text in the submitted paper that matches existing sources. The report shows the suspected sources for each section of the submitted paper that returns a match.
Your project may be submitted with unlimited “attempts” and only the Originality Check for the last attempt will be used. You must review your score and the items flagged — the “Similarity Score” does not guarantee a good or bad paper.
Rubric Name: SCM 640 – Final Report rubric