Guidelines for the Supply Chain paper

The main purpose of the paper is to document current and future trends that relate to the design and management of the supply chain for a company or industry. I would expect that many of you might be interested in writing about the supply chain for the company you will be working for following graduation.

The following are topics that would be appropriate for the paper: 

1. A description of the current design of the supply chain.

2. Recent innovations with the way the supply chain is organized and/or managed.

3. A vision of how the supply chain for this company or industry will operate in the future.

This list is just an example of what might be covered in the paper, depending on the company or industry many other ideas may be appropriate.

I would expect that the paper would be 5-10 pages in length (double spaced). Be sure to use footnotes to indicate sources used in the paper. This is an individual project.

Suggested paper organization:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Industry/company background
  3. Analysis of the current competitive situation
  4. New strategy description
  5. Conclusions
  6. Bibliography