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Description Select the company from the Fortune 500 (Links to an external site.). Prepare a 10-15 page Research paper on one of the following topics: Changing Organizational Priorities that change scope of projects Change Management impact on Projects and/or Change management impact on operations management Lack of accountability on project requirements Unrealistic deadlines for project completion Relationship of project to strategy of the business Guidelines: Relate your paper to a specific project or initiative (this can be a past or future project at your organization, a past project from another company or a future project you wish to undertake). In review of all of the aspects of Project Management what one area do you believe will be your biggest challenge? Explain for the project chosen, explain, analyze, synthesize, and summarize the impact that the application of operations management will have. Provide examples of specific projects or operations failures for the chosen company, and relate how this conforms or deviates from effective project management standards/theory. Research Paper will be in APA format Research papers will be 10-12 pages in content length (not including cover and reference page) Research paper will have a minimum of 10 quality peer-reviewed references

In this project, you will search for information that will enable you to identify three top trends in your profession or field. Over the course of the project, you will exercise information literacy skills as you locate and evaluate information, and develop well-reasoned conclusions. Reviewing the many sources available to you, you will choose those that are relevant, timely, and helpful to your quest to understand the issues of your industry. Once you have identified the top trends, you will choose one that is particularly interesting to you or one that you think is the most problematic, and research more deeply to produce an analytical research paper for your team. Your project is intended to prepare the search committee on the issue so that it is well-prepared to interview candidates. This project will prepare you for more complex research projects, as you will refine and hone your ability to create a statement of the problem and find the information you need to produce a well-reasoned, well-supported analysis. When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission. 1.1: Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment. 1.2: Develop coherent paragraphs or points so that each is internally unified and so that each functions as part of the whole document or presentation. 1.3: Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas. 1.4: Tailor communications to the audience. 1.5: Use sentence structure appropriate to the task, message and audience. 1.6 Follow conventions of Standard Written English. 2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration. 2.2: Locate and access sufficient information to investigate the issue or problem. 2.3: Evaluate the information in a logical and organized manner to determine its value and relevance to the problem. 2.4: Consider and analyze information in context to the issue or problem. 2.5 Develop well-reasoned ideas, conclusions or decisions, checking them against relevant criteria and benchmarks In the previous two steps, you performed searches, first to identify industry trends, and then for information about an issue in one of those trends that you consider to be important to your industry. Now, you should be ready to draft your paper. This would be a good time to review organization in writing and paragraphs. You might also review the Effective Writing Center’s Online Guide to Writing, a valuable reference to students who seek to improve their writing. Review your tasks. You are to provide a research paper that provides a summary of the three top trends in your industry (with associated NAICS codes). Provide sufficient background for your reader that the trend is clear and supported by resources you have found. Review resources in References and Citations to ensure that you are using “in text” citations to give credit for the ideas of other authors and to build your credibility as a researcher, neither ignoring sources nor quoting excessively. You will develop a paper that accomplishes two objectives: It will identify the three top trends in your industry and your rationale for your choices based on the resources you found;It will discuss an issue within one of the trends that you deem important, based on the current state of the industry, and will be supported by your analysis of facts and a well-reasoned conclusion of what it means to the industry.

Each essay answer is worth ten points. Be sure to provide detailed and complete scholarly responses for each question. Read each question completely, because there are several parts to some questions. Be sure to address all parts presented in each question. Your answer may include content from readings, conference discussions, outside sources or relevant workplace examples. These must not be merely cut-and-pasted from other sources. Provide examples that show a clear understanding of the material. Please save the examination with answers as a Microsoft Word document under a new filename which includes your last name_section (9040)_midterm. Essay answers should appear in order, from one through ten. Please make sure you have an answer for each question before submitting it for grading. There is one bonus question worth 5 points. Remember, completed exams are to be submitted in the mid-term examination assignments folder. Note that your assignment folder is locked after the due date and the exam cannot be submitted. The test represents 25 percent of your total class grade, so please spend quality time in preparing answers. Essay Questions:  1) Explain the benefits and disadvantages for outsourcing supply logistics operations and management to 3PLs. 2) Which logistical functions are most commonly outsourced to 3PLs and why? Give examples. 3) Explain ERP and the advantages of ERP systems. What are the benefits of ERPs in talking to other SW applications? 4) Explain how RFID tags are used to reduce shrinkage. What are the benefits and disadvantages in using RFID for monitoring the movement of supply chain management goods throughout the supply chain? 5) Discuss reverse logistics including its definition and its process flow. 6) How does reverse logistics relate to a company being socially responsible and how is reverse logistics related to service recovery? 7) What is the relationship between demand management, order management and customer service? 8) In looking at demand management explain the difference in independent demand, dependent demand and derived demand. Explain how CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are related to demand management and how can they be used in demand management? 9) Define and distinguish between possession, form, time, and place utility. Give a “real world” example for each one. 10) In the readings, Flint and Gammelgaard shared that creating superior logistics service quality involved managing at least nine service-related elements that pertain to either order placement or order receipt. Choose four of the nine listed and explain why they are important and how service quality can be negatively impacted if the element went lacking. Bonus: 5 points. Why is supplier collaboration and at times systems integration beneficial in building supplier relationships? In our readings, Sheth and Sharma shared examples of the benefits of supplier relationships with Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor Company, Levi Strauss, DuPont, McKesson, and Bose Corporation. Choose one of the examples that was shared and explain how logistical saving was achieved by supplier relationships and why you think this was effective.