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Throughout the term, our class has been discussing the importance of the purchasing function and the impact purchasing teams have on a company’s ability to achieve ongoing strategic objectives. Increasingly these strategic objectives include plans to implement and sustain broad-based CSR initiatives, not only within the supply chain but throughout the entire company. The purpose of this project is to provide the Oper8010 students with an opportunity to apply the purchasing tools and knowledge learned in the first eleven (11) weeks of the course to a real-world business environment.

Grading:

This CSR Project accounts for up to 15% of the overall Oper8010 course grade, based on thoroughness, accuracy and the professional quality of the final document, please see below grading rubric.

Due Date:

11:59pm, April 3^rd 2021, submitted via the eConestoga dropbox.

Groups:

All groups are the same as team project #1.

Company Selection:

Each team is required to select a real-world company, currently in business in 2021. The company can be of any size, can be located on any continent and does not have to be Canadian, but ideally it should be a reasonably well-known, publically held, manufacturing organization. All companies need to be pre-approved by the instructor and no two (2) groups may select the same company. You may select 1 team member to communicate with the instructor via email to approve your company Please submit your chosen “company” to your instructor via e-mail for suitability review and approval. This is due by 6pm on Tuesday March 23^rd, 2021.

Reports:

Final reports will be submitted via eConestoga assignment folder, (dropbox), and are due at 11:59pm on April 3^rd, 2021. Each team’s report should be a maximum of about twelve (12) to fifteen (15) pages in length, (not including title and reference pages), (single sided, 1” margin, 12-point Times New Roman). Each report may also contain up to a maximum of 5 additional pages of relevant, supporting exhibits as required. All reports should include a properly formatted cover page listing the report title, course name, instructor name, group names & student numbers. Please have each team member sign the report on the front page.

Project Scope:

You and your fellow team members are purchasing employees at ABC Company, a mid-size product manufacturer located in Kitchener Ontario with customers across Canada and around the globe. You have recently returned from a three (3) day business conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, (CSR), where the main theme centered on global customer’s interest in the CSR platforms of the companies, they purchase product from, (I.E. their suppliers). More specifically, the conference focus was on how the  purchasing function needs to be a key contributor and supporter of the CSR mandate.

You are aware that ABC Company is in the process of developing new CSR initiatives, but none of you have been actively involved in the project at this point. In your weekly meeting with your boss, the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you discuss the various concepts recently introduced to you at the conference and ask for the purchasing team to become more actively involved in the development of ABC Company’s CSR initiatives going forward.