Logistics and the Supply Chain

For this assignment please use J.B. Hunt Transport, assume the role of the supply chain manager for your chosen company. You have been tasked by the company COO to create an onboarding brief for a newly hired logistics manager. The brief should provide an overall description of how your supply chain functions and how it interacts with the company’s logistics operations.

 

 

 

Prepare a 5–7 page onboarding brief for the incoming logistics manager in which you:

 

•Briefly explain the responsibilities of the logistics manager.

 

•Describe the supply chain for one of the company’s products or services. â—¦Use a flowchart diagram to help illustrate the supply. (You may use Visio, MS Project, Excel, or a similar tool.)

 

â—¦Identify critical points where the supply chain intersects with logistics activities.

 

 

 

•Assess the overall role that logistics plays in the company’s supply chain.

 

•Analyze vulnerable areas in logistics activities that might pose a threat to the supply chain. â—¦Identify vulnerable areas (for example, transportation, storage, packaging, material handling, inventory control, order fulfillment, forecasting, production planning, procurement, et cetera).

 

â—¦Explain why these are vulnerable areas.

 

â—¦Describe the factors that contribute to the vulnerability of the areas.

 

 

 

•Outline ways in which you and the logistics manager can work together to improve the supply chain. â—¦You may address overall best practices or focus on how the two of you can work together to address disruptions to the supply chain, such as a warehouse fire, transportation strike, materials shortage, et cetera.

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Requirements

 

•Include a title page and references page.

 

•Number of pages: 5–7, excluding the title page and references page.

 

•Number of resources: At least 2.

 

•Use APA format for citations and references.

 

•Use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced.

 

 

 

Refer to the assignment scoring guide for the grading criteria by which you will be evaluated.

 

 

 

Submit your onboarding brief, including your flowchart diagram, to this assignment.

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