Unit Assignments Unit I Scholarly Activity

Unit Assignments

Unit I Scholarly Activity

Every business has to procure the goods and services it needs to operate, but not every procurement transaction is efficient and successful. Perhaps some aspect of the buyer’s need was not communicated to the seller, or perhaps the seller did not honor its commitments in accepting the order.

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for examples of procurement failures in a business. In a three-page paper, briefly summarize the components of a successful partnership. Then, describe the details of the three procurement failures, discuss why each procurement attempt failed, and evaluate what should have been done to make each procurement attempt successful. Also, identify whether the procurement failures resulted between traditional supply chain practices or integrated supply chain approaches.

 

The steps to achieving a successful procurement are set out in Figure 2-2 “The Successful Partnership Pyramid” on page 14 of your course textbook. Be sure to identify the level(s) that were not accomplished and that contributed to the failed procurement attempt.

 

You must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit II Scholarly Activity

 

Make-or-buy decisions, outsourcing, and offshoring are all concepts involving many of the same considerations. Should a company that needs a specific item or service for the products it produces make the item or provide the service internally, or should the company acquire the item or service from outside of the company? What factors are relevant to this decision?

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for an example of a company that has made a makeor-buy decision. Provide an example of a company that has made this kind of decision. What considerations were involved in the decision made by this company?

 

In a two-page paper, identify the company and describe the details of the decision, including the factors that were considered during the preaward, award, and postaward phases of the contract management process. Be sure to briefly explain each of the steps in the process. The make-or-buy decision is the initial decision a business makes in the contract management process. It determines whether there will be a contract management process at all since the business deciding to make what it needs will not have to enter into a contract with a buyer and seller.

 

You must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit III Scholarly Activity

 

Issues with the common law of contracts gave rise to the need for the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which has now been adopted, at least in part, by every state in the United States. Identify two issues with the common law of contracts that have been addressed by the UCC, and explain what changes to the common law of contracts were made by the UCC to address those issues. Did the changes made by the UCC resolve the issues?

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for two examples of issues with the common law of contracts addressed by the UCC. This scholarly activity is not intended to ask about business affected by the UCC; rather, it asks you to talk about provisions of the UCC that were intended to address issues already existing in common law. You may limit the scope of the question to issues regarding the formation of contracts.

 

In a two-page paper, describe the details of those issues and how the UCC addressed the issues.

 

You must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit IV Essay

 

There are a variety of risks and uncertainties rising during the procurement process. Many of those risks can be identified during the preaward phase and addressed in the contract pricing agreement. Identify two risks or uncertainties that can arise during the procurement process, and describe the strategies used to address those risks or uncertainties in the contract pricing document.

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for two examples of risks or uncertainties that can arise during the procurement process. In a two-page paper, describe the details of those two risks or uncertainties and the strategies used to address those risks or uncertainties in the contract pricing agreement.

 

You must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit V Essay

 

Whether formally or informally, there are a variety of steps buyers and sellers must complete during the preaward phase of the procurement process to prepare for the later phases of the procurement process. How do these preparations contribute to successes during the award and postaward phases of the procurement process?

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for two examples of steps sellers or buyers must accomplish during the preaward phase that can affect the success of the award or postaward phases of the procurement process. Identify two steps sellers or buyers must accomplish during the preaward phase affecting the success of the award or postaward phases of the procurement process.

 

In a minimum two-page paper, describe the details of those two steps and how they affect the award or postaward phases of the procurement process.

 

You must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit VI Essay

 

Chapter 12 of the textbook details the phases that AT&T followed to add value to its contract management process. Some companies have used a similar process to add value to their contract management processes and other companies have taken different approaches to adding value to their contract management processes with varying degrees of success.

 

For this assignment, search the CSU Online Library and the Internet for two examples of companies that have tried to add value to their contract management processes. In a three-page paper, describe the details of the approaches those companies have taken to add value to their contract management processes and evaluate the successes of those two companies in adding value to their contract management processes, considering both the value added to the companies and the value added to their customers’ experiences.

 

You must support your responses to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

 

Unit VII Assignment

 

The first four levels of the contract management maturity model (CMMM) for buyers bear different names than the first four levels of the CMMM for sellers, but the last two levels of the CMMM for buyers and sellers bear the same names. Does this mean that buyers and sellers do different things in the first four levels of the CMMM and do the same thing in the last two levels of the CMMM? Is it accurate to say the activities of buyers and sellers at each level of the CMMM are actually different but complementary? With each level of the CMMM, do the actions of buyers determine the actions of sellers?

 

In a two-page paper, select two levels of the CMMM, and describe what actions buyers should take in each of those levels and what actions sellers should take in those levels. Additionally, determine whether buyers and sellers are acting in concert in those levels (doing things that are related) or acting independently of each other in those levels.

 

Using the CSU Online Library and the Internet, you must support your answers to the required statements above with facts from a minimum of three sources. Use correct APA formatting when writing your paper, including in-text citations and references.

 

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.