Supply Networks Management

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Students are now allowed to submit oneTurnitin Check per assignment, which will close 24 hours before the assignment deadline.  This allows students to generate an originality report and use this to improve their referencing and citation skills. Turnitin Check is NOT the final submission – students still need to submit their work to the Assignment Link, otherwise it will be marked as Not Submitted.

Students should note that the time of submission is taken from once the document has been successfully uploaded and confirmed – this may take more than five minutes during busy periods. Late penalties will be applied to any work submitted from 12.01pm on Friday27^th March 2020 onwards. Details of how to calculate a late penalty can be found in the PG Handbook. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure the document/file has uploaded successfully.

When submitting students must:

1. Include a completed cover sheet (available from Blackboard (MOLE))
2. Use ‘Student Number, MGT6155-1’ (e.g. 190011001, MGT6155-1) as the document’s file name and also as the Assignment Title in Turnitin.

Consider a multiple-echelon Supply Network, organised as follows. In the first tier primary products A are produced in plant As, which can be either fed into Plant Bs from the second tier, in order to produceintermediary products B, or sold on the market. Product B can be sold to customers, but is also aproduction input to the final product C, which in turn is produced in the third tier. Product C can be sold to customers while plant Cs can be fed by external sourcesfor B whenever convenient. At each stage, a conversion ratio is provided from input materials to products. As the manufacturing process is not perfectly reliable, onlycertain percentage of the production is good. There are processingcapacities and storage capacities for both raw materials and products. Your objective is find the optimal solution in terms of: Production quantities at each plantfor each period; Shipments on each route for each period; Inventories at each plant for each period; with the aim to minimize the production and logistics costs, whilst meeting the required demand.

• Identify and describe the characteristics and the complexity of the appropriate Supply Chain optimisation model;
• Translate your individual datasheet into a dataset to feed the model (dataset to be included in your report as appendix A);
• Execute the optimisation process and export the results (results to be included in your report as appendix B);
• Describe accurately the obtained solutions and the characteristics of the computational process;
• Perform basic sensitivity analyses on the parameters as per indications in your datasheet;
• Perform what-if analyses as per indications in your datasheet;

Provide a final summary of your findings, suitable for a management report, including your relevant comments and any managerial recommendations.

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You are reminded of the University’s Regulations on the Use of Unfair Means and academic integrity which are outlined in the School’s Handbooks.  If there is a suspicion that your work is not your own and that you have used unfair means or there is suspicion of a breach of academic integrity in writing this assessment then you may be referred to our unfair means officers to consider your work. Therefore, you are advised to ensure that you undertake the relevant guidance on the module site or programme level sites that you have access too. If you cannot access these, please contact the Student Experience Office.

You are required to compile a detailed report following the above-mentioned indications. All optimisation analyses should be undertaken using IBM ILOG CPLEX.  You can include screenshots from the software package, tables and charts to the report.

In writing the report, please use a 12pt font and a line spacing not greater than 1.3.