Introduction of the Kibby and Strand

This document presents the Concepts of Operations (“ConOps”) for Kibby & Strand, a clothing manufacturing company that produces clothing for clients. This includes the initial bids, ordering raw material, producing the clothing, and shipping to buyers. Kibby & Strand sees the process from beginning to end. This information is to explain a sustainable business model to ensure profitability through employee retention, minimizing costs, and maximizing the production process.

This requires them to:

? Staff and train the appropriate labor to ensure the quality and quantity is accurate

to the contracts and bids within the organization

? Improve and update all cutting machines to accurately address the orders in the

required timeframe

? Partner with the best-suited delivery company for the organization while staying

current on the contracts

? Provide the highest quality of service from beginning to end

The CONOPS is written to assist supervisors in operating the growing company. The document provides the framework within the departments in a collaborated organization. Recognizing independent procedures while abiding by the organization’s overall policy. As the manufacturing of clothing is operationally large, the organization needs to secure contracts with a broad collection of vendors. Since most Kibby & Strand merchandise is purchased based on seasonal trends, response time, production, and shipping need to be centered at the beginning of each season.

Moving forward, Kibby and Strand will make data-driven decisions through developing, collecting, measuring, and analyzing key performance measures. With the assessments, the organization will operate on a reduction of cost while improving quality, staffing, and shipping time.

CRITICAL THINKING: Effective Communication and Training in Implementing a Performance Management System

We must be able to communicate the exact core competencies we are holding employees accountable for. There are six basic components associated with a performance management communication plan, which can be reviewed in Figure 7-1, in your textbook. These components may be helpful to review when crafting your presentation.

For this assignment, create a PowerPoint presentation for an organization of your choice, which is in the Middle East. Address the following core competencies required by the organization and explain how your organization defines each core competency, as well as how each core competency is measured and utilized by the organization:

• Teamwork
• Communication
• Creativity
• Quality Improvement
• Attendance

Directions:

• Presentation should be 10 slides in length, with a minimum of seven content slides in addition to one title slide, an agenda slide, and at least one reference slide.
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles in the speaker’s notes as well as the reference slide.Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.
• Presentation notes are required for each slide and should be put in the speaker’s notes section to support the slide content. These can be part of the presentation or delivered as a separate document. PDF files will not be accepted.
• Follow APA 7th edition style guidelines.
• Every fact need a citation.
• Make sure that the plagiarism is not more than 5%

Learning Outcome: 

1. Demonstrate an understanding of how global competitive environments are changing supply chain management and logistics practice.

2. Apply essential elements of core logistic and supply chain management principles.

3. Analyze and identify challenges and issues pertaining to logistical processes.

Assignment Workload:

This assignment is an individual assignment.

Critical Thinking

Outsourcing and offshoring initiatives can help an organization fine-tune its business model to become more resilient and profitable. At the same time, these initiatives present challenges. 

In today’s highly competitive, extremely variable, and dynamic environment, many firms are seeking solutions. Supplychainmanagementbecomesmore sophisticatedandthedifferencebetweenwhat firmswanttoachieveandwhattheycandoin-house continues to grow, firms begin to realize that doing the right thing becomes more interesting than doing everything.Accordingly, they are becoming better focused and more specialized by outsourcing and offshoring activities that are far from their core businesses. In many cases firms decide to outsource this function in whole or in part to agents or third-party logistics firms. 

Using this concept of offshoring and outsourcing answer the following questions by taking any Saudi Local company or any Multinational company.

Questions: Each Question Carrying 2 Marks.

Define Third party logistics firms? Discuss its working procedure? (400-500 Words) 

Explain the motivational factors for going internationally? (400-500 Words)

On what ground companies choose developing country’s location for offshoring? Use examples. (Mention the country and decisive factors). (400-500 Words)

Why do companies outsource? (Use example of any Saudi company along its objective and scope for outsource). (400-500 Words)

Assess the reasons for using third party logistics service in Saudi Arabia? Using examples, Explanation regarding their logistics performance and priorities.  (400-500 Words)

Part 1:

Subject: Competitive Strategy

In this course, we discussed how several companies such as Ford (Learning from Mistakes opening incident) and Coca-Cola (Strategy Spotlight 7.4) adopted a localized international strategy. Interview a manager in an organization with foreign market exposure and ask the following questions: (1) what are the main benefits of localizing products or services in your industry?, (2) how do you manage the resulting complexity of localizing products or services?, and (3) do you find it necessary to localize other value chain activities (such as HR management)? Then ask yourself this question: Do the responses indicate that the organization is guided by established industry best practices or systematic strategic analysis of the internal and external environment?

Present a report of the above questions in an essay format. Bullet points should not be used.

Part 1 needs to be 800 plus words and APA format (refer the Competitive Strategy textbook)

Part 2:

Subject: Competitive Strategy

Practical Connection Assignment

Provide a reflection of at least 600 words of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course (Competitive Strategy) have been applied or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.

Part 2 needs to be 600 plus words and APA format (refer the Competitive Strategy textbook)

Instructions

PROBLEM: You have been directed by your corporate or organizational president to research one of the following situations/problems and prepare a formalized research paper. This paper should be addressed to the president, board of directors, and your professor. For this research, you should conduct a review of literature based on the current practices being used in today’s organizations (in terms of your selected research problem/situation).

For your research project, your topic is below.. As you conduct your secondary and/or primary research, you should also develop a well-developed strategy as to how to implement your strategy into this organization. One way to view the selected problem is to think of a current or previous organization, in which you might focus your research efforts towards. For example, you may be facing the same problem in your current organization – so you could write this paper, based on addressing this particular problem with your current organization. If you do not see the relevance of any of these problems with your current or past employers – just write your paper as if you were employed with a Fortune 500 company or an organization currently in the news.

HERE IS YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC:

Creation and implementation of a new performance appraisal system or method of conducting performance appraisals.

AUDIENCE:
Please write your research paper as if your organizational or corporate president and/or board of directors would review and consider its findings and recommendations. However, your professor will be the final reviewer for this paper.