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ISCOM 473 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ISCOM 473 Week 1
DQs ISCOM 473 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Article Analysis Paper ISCOM 473 Week 2 DQs ISCOM
473 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Procurement
Strategies Presentation ISCOM 473 Week 3
DQs ISCOM 473 Week 3 Individual Assignment
Sourcing Process Evaluation ISCOM 473 Week 3
Learning Team Assignment Outsourcing Insourcing
Proposal
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ISCOM 473 Week 1 DQs For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Week 1 DQ 1 What is
your organizations buying strategy? How did it
establish its buying strategy? What procurement
strategies can an organization use to improve its
overall performance? Week 1 DQ 2How does your
organization initiate buying products and/or
services? Is it efficient? Why or why not? What
are the benefits of a company having a buying
department as compared to each department
ordering on its own? How does buying add value to
an organization?
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ISCOM 473 Week 1 Individual Assignment Article
Analysis Paper For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Using a local
newspaper, news magazines, the Internet, or other
additional article sources, locate a current (no
older than four months) news article that
addresses the strategic role of procurement in an
organizational setting. Prepare a 700-1,050-word
paper that explains the similarities and/or
differences between the purchasing role listed in
the article and your organization's current
purchasing role, or one with which you are
familiar. Identify any improvements that might
enhance your selected organizations procurement
function.
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ISCOM 473 Week 2 DQs For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Week 2 DQ1 How is
outsourcing domestically different from
outsourcing internationally? If your organization
uses outsourcing, what is the process used? Why
would you consider outsourcing (buy versus
make)? Week 2 DQ2 When would you have multiple
rounds of bidding? What evaluation criteria would
be used to initially select a supplier? What
criteria are used to evaluate supplier
performance? What factors should be considered in
supplier selection both domestically and globally?
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ISCOM 473 Week 2 Individual Assignment Review
Sourcing Steps For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Choose your current
organization or one with which you are
familiar. Write in your own words a 700-word
paper that assesses the steps of the sourcing
process as it relates to your current
organization or one you are familiar
with. Discuss and provide an example of how each
step is performed.
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ISCOM 473 Week 2 Team Assignment Insourcing and
Outsourcing Practices For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Your team has been
chosen as consultants. Use the organization
identified in Week 1 to review the current
insourcing and outsourcing practices of the
product offering. Include the following in your
analysis The product offering and how it is
used The countries operated in and the pros and
cons of servicing them Evaluation of the current
suppliers being used
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ISCOM 473 Week 3 DQs For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Week 3 DQ 1 What is
the goal of negotiating? Why is planning critical
to the negotiation process? When would an
organization negotiate for an item or product
instead of releasing a simple purchase
order?   Week 3 DQ 2What are the components of
cost analysis? When would you use cost analysis
versus price analysis? How is one better than the
other at different times?
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ISCOM 473 Week 3 Individual Assignment Sourcing
Process Evaluation For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Using the assigned
readings, ERR library, and for any other
additional sources, prepare a 700-1,050-word
summary, accompanied by a flowchart, that
describes/outlines the steps that occur in a
typical sourcing process for a global
manufacturing firm. Provide a brief evaluation of
the steps as illustrated in your flowchart.
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ISCOM 473 Week 3 Team Assignment Negotiations
Strategies Paper For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Identify a
negotiation scenario from a professional
organization or credible supply chain
website. Prepare a 700-word paper in which you
analyze the negotiation scenario. Address the
following in your paper Analyze the elements of
negotiation(s). Select three negotiation
strategies and describe each of them.
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ISCOM 473 Week 4 DQs For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Week 4 DQ 1 Describe
your organizations steps to issue a purchase
order. How does your organization ensure that
requirements flow from the first tier supplier to
second and third tier suppliers? How does
effective contract administration lead to better
supplier management?
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ISCOM 473 Week 4 Individual Assignment
Negotiating Across Cultures Paper and
Presentation For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Read the following
scenarioSelect two countries to research.
Research your selected countries and document
each countrys cultural and ethnic composition as
well as the populations ethnic makeup, include
percentages (for example Malaysia Ethnic groups
Malaysian 50.2, Chinese 24.5, Indigenous 11.0,
Indian 7.2, Non-Malaysian citizens 5.9 , Others
1.2).
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ISCOM 473 Week 4 Individual Assignment Supplier
Evaluation and Contract Review (Rocky Plain
Brewing Ltd and Gilpin Printing) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Read the
case study of Rocky Plain Brewing Ltd and Gilpin
Printing in Chapter 15 ofPurchasing and Supply
Management, pages 473-475.  Answer the following
questions in your discussion in 700
words Explain what the Rocky Plains could have
done to improve the supplier relationship with
Gilpin. Explain the type of metrics that could
have been used to measure success with
Gilpin. Explain the factors that were used by
Mike to make his decision to switch suppliers.
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ISCOM 473 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment
Negotiations Strategies Paper For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   ISCOM 473 Week 4
Learning Team Assignment Negotiations Strategies
Paper
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ISCOM 473 Week 4 Team Assignment Supplier
Evaluation Case Review (Delphi Corporation) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   The
entire team will read the Delphi Corporation Case
study in Chapter 13 of Purchasing and Supply
Management, pages 387-391.  Discuss this case
with your team and submit a 1,050-word paper that
includes Summary of the case From the company
you chose in Week 1, how can some of the
strategies Delphi has taken relate? Provide
examples of how your organization is similar to
Delphi in their approach and how they are
different.  
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ISCOM 473 Week 5 Individual Assignment Future
Trends in Purchasing Paper For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Based on current
events and trends in the sourcing and procurement
environment, prepare a 1,050-1,750-word paper
hypothesizing the future of purchasing in the
global economy. In your paper, be sure to address
the followingBenefits and risks of
e-businessFuture opportunities and trends in
purchasingFuture challenges in purchasing
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ISCOM 473 Week 5 Team Assignment eCommerce
Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   From the organization chosen in Week
1, review Ch. 4 from the text.  Review the ERP
and Procurement tools currently used to manage
suppliers.  Design/create a process map that
shows the Information Systems and Supply
Management Process. Include how information is
managed and the various departments the
information is sent to. Create a
PowerPoint presentation of 10 slides (not
including the title and references slides) with
speaker's notes that discusses this process
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