Week 1: Discussion 1
Prompt
Review the videos in week 1 within the course overview and read chapter 1 & 2. Reply substantively to each question below. Begin your reply by copying and pasting each question in the first line of your reply and begin your response.
1. As a leader within your organization what role to you believe technology has in modern inventory management and risk pooling?
2. Research a organization and provide examples of successful implementation of inventory management and risk pooling strategies
3. What do you believe are the key issues and risk related to managing global supply chains? Explain.
4. Think of yourself as a logistical supervisor within your company. How does global sourcing impact lead times, supply chain costs, and overall responsiveness?
Guidelines
Class discussions are an integral part of your learning in this course. You are both encouraged and expected to participate in online discussions. Regular and meaningful contributions are part of your final course grade. Examine the Discussion Rubric linked in each graded discussion activity to identify the qualities of an effective post. Moreover, you must provide an outside and textbook reference while comparing and contrasting each author’s information with your introduction post. Each reference must abide by the 7th APA edition publication manual.
Your introduction discussion post is due before midnight on a Wednesday central time. Therefore, if your introduction post is submitted on 12:01 you are late. However, if a student submits their introduction post on a Friday or Saturday with all responses the student will receive a zero. I want students to communicate within the classroom forum because it is not fair to other students when an individual submit their introduction post on Friday or when the discussion is due on a Saturday and other individuals do not have time to respond. Some individuals are enrolled in more than two classes, therefore I want individuals to submit their introduction post by Wednesday of each week thereby giving individuals ample time to respond to each other while creating an environment of learning throughout the week.
Reply substantively to at least two of your classmates on different days. Review the evaluation rubric for grading criteria.
Instructions on REPLY to my Original Posting and a Posting Response below. Additionally, examples of acceptable and unacceptable responses can also be found below.
Engage and express critical thinking through your responses to promote an interactive learning experience. Each response should be in your own words, grammatically sound, and free of spelling errors.




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