CTU SCM210 Phase 2 Individual Project

SCM210-1501A-03 Introduction to Logistics/Supply Chain
Management
Task Name: Phase
2 Individual Project
Deliverable Length: 10–15
PowerPoint slides; 100–200 words of speaker notes per slide
Details:

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects)
will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in
accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All
submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
The CEO, knowing that professional logistics expertise has
been missing from her organization, has asked you to prepare a PowerPoint
Presentation of 10–15 slides for the rest of the senior and middle management
teams. In it, she has asked that you pick a mass merchandiser with
international retail locations that your firm may be delivering to.

The heart of the PowerPoint should be an overview of the
steps that are needed to make a good location decision, whether it is for an
additional manufacturing facility in some other state or country, or a new
distribution center location in another state or country.

She asked that you use this made-up data to base your
presentation on. Being a stickler for formatting, she requires that you do the
following:

Use a colored
background for your slides
Have few words but
lots of eye-catching graphics, clip art, or pictures on each slide
Have speaker notes
of 100–200 words for each slide
Assume the
presentation should last 30–45 minutes and should have 10–15 slides

The data to base the presentation on is as follows:

The retailer has
200 retail locations all over the United States.
Right now, all
shipments come from the East Coast manufacturing plant finished goods
warehouse.
Western United States
sales growth rates are expected to be double that of the Eastern United States.
The retailer has a
total of 50 stores located outside of the United States, mostly in Europe,
where population growth is averaging 1% a year.
It has no retail
locations in India, China, or Mexico, where on average, population growth is
averaging 10% into the future.
Your product is a
“high-cube” product, like a refrigerator or color television.
The raw materials
for your manufacturing facility are also high-cube and have a lot of cardboard
packaging (which takes up space) to protect the high-dollar value components
that the factory buys.

Finally, the CEO reminds you that this presentation is meant
to be a how-to guide for the overall decision-making process that you will be
using in your future assignments.