Category: Management

Cost Management Metrics Table of Contents
1. Cost Management Metric: (give a title)
A. Purpose (write a 150 – 200 word description informed by theory)
B. What is/are the data sources? (Define where does the data come from?)
C. Example visual and interpretation. (Deliver a visual and write 100 – 150 words describing how to interpret the metric)
2. Cost Management Metric: (give a title)
A. Purpose (write a 150 – 200 word description informed by theory)
B. What is/are the data sources? (Define where does the data come from?)
C. Example visual and interpretation. (Deliver a visual and write 100 – 150 words describing how to interpret the metric)
3. Sources (Minimum of six in APA style)

This assignment is an individual assignment.
Due date for Assignment 2 is 04/05/2024
The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Logistics Management
ASSIGNMENT -3
Submission Date by students:Before 4/5/24
Place of Submission: Students Grade Centre
Weight: 10 Marks
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
In today’s highly competitive, extremely variable, and dynamic environment, many firms are seeking solutions. Supply chain management becomes more sophisticated and the difference between what firms want to achieve and what they can do in-house continues to grow, firms begin to realize that doing the right thing becomes more interesting than doing everything. Accordingly, they become 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 conceding any Saudi Local company or any Multinational company.
Question:
1.What are the roles of Third-party logistics firms in the smooth running of Supply chain process of a multinational organization? (3 Mark)
2.What are the motivational factors for companies going internationally? (3 Mark)
3.On what ground do companies choose developing countries’ locations for offshoring? Use examples. (Mention the country and decisive factors) (3 Mark)
4.References (Use APA style of referencing (1 Mark)
The Answer must follow the Keyword/ outline points below:
Each answer should be 300 to 400 range of word counts.
Outsourcing, offshoring, Third Party Logistics
Their Main functions
Motivational Factors /Drivers
Reasons with suitable Examples
Reference
Note: You can support your answer by reading your book.
You can use secondary source available on internet.

The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated folder.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
Late submission will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Learning Outcomes:
No
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
CLO-6
Write coherent project about a case study or actual research about ethics
The content is available for free download in knowledge resource from the SEU homepage:
Read the following article available in SDL:
Yadav, R., Gangwar, R., Arora, S., & Andres, F. (2019). Cultural Issues in Employee Engagement: Illuminate, Causes, and Significance. In N. Sharma, N. Chaudhary, & V. Singh (Eds.), Management Techniques for Employee Engagement in Contemporary Organizations (pp. 47-56). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7799-7.ch003.
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Answer the following questions:
1.Discuss the role of employee engagement in the growth of organization as argued by the author. (Not less than 400 words) 3 Marks.
2.Explain the significance of cultural issues in Employee engagement addressed by the author. (not less than 400 words) 3 Marks.
3.According to the author, why do cultural issues occur in employee engagement? Explain the techniques to improve employee engagement. (not less than 500 words) 4 Marks.
Note: All answers should be supported with proper references.