Assessment 2: IndivicluaAssessment overview
1.0) INSTRUCTIONS: Assignment Submission: All assignment copies are to be submitted online (LMS) on the specific due date agreed upon. ii) Assignment Brief: select an organization that you are familiar with and assume that ou -are the purchasing manager of this organization. Analyse the effectiveness of these three aspects of the purchasing management, namely supplier selection criteria and related issues single or multiples sources, local or overseas etc.), purchasing costs, and the use of informatiorl & communication technologies (ICT) for purchasing operations and management- YOU are required to consult and fully reference a MINIMUM of 10 references (e.g., book: wvvw; lournal article from the full-text databases; current affairs magazine; newspaper etc.). The use o/ ED1A online encyclopedia is NOT allowed. The word range of this essay is about 2,00o words.
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The report must fulfill the following requirements: • More marks will be awarded for reports which provide more detailed discussion and in, depth analysis with adequate referencing to the purchasing concepts and models.
iii) Assignment Format:
The report should be presented as follows: • Introduction – Outline the purpose of this essay (about 100 words) and provide the key information about the selected local retailer (about 200 words), information include products. supplier markets. competitors. organizational goals and strategies etc.
• Supplier Selection Criteria and Issues – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of k selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate criteria be considered when selecting supplier(s) and the decisions required to be made for issu relating to supplier selection (about 500 words).
• ICT For Purchasing Operations – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the ICT to he applies improving purchasing operations (about 500 words). • Purchasing Cost Analysis – Analyze thepurchasing goals and needs of the self organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate tools 1,1 considered for analysing the purchasing costs (about 500 words), • Conclusion – Reinstates all of the significant parts of this report and refers the r back to the focus that have outlined in the introduction and to the central toic. This report a sense of unity (about 200 words) p AN HIGHER EDUCATION – POWV1.6