In the current market, it is very important for businesses to have an effective and efficient supply chain in order to meet the market need effectively and the business that fails to realize the importance of supply chain in business success suffers heavily in terms of losing their customers. Post Pandemic the demand in the Market for e-commerce is skyrocketing and managing the quality supply chain according to customer demand with traditional business is becoming challenging in the current competitive environment. And the need to manage the supply chain also requires closer attention as it involves cross-function activities.

You work in a leading Trading Organization in the Maldives as Procurement Manager for the last few years. The quality of the procurement process in your company is suffering a huge setback due to obsolete tools & techniques being used in practice for several years. The COO of the company after the Pandemic realized the importance of e-commerce and is now willing to integrate various enhanced software solutions in the procurement process to develop technically advanced supply chain mechanisms by adopting different ERPS tools. The COO has asked you to prepare a detail report highlighting the important areas to be improved in order to enhance the supply chain management with the integration of e-commerce in your company.

Prepare a report titled Enhancing Supply Chain Management with help of E-commerce for (Name of Selected Business) focusing on the adoption of new Software tools and techniques to provide better solutions for the procurement process. Your report must be unified and coherent. It must not exceed 4000 words.

To successfully complete this assignment, you must:

Explain the major components of supply chain management. (1.1) (12.5 Marks)

You must:

Identify and discuss supply chain and its components.

Briefly discuss the framework for strategic drivers for supply chain management.

Assess the importance of quality management. (1.2) (12.5 Marks)

You must:

Identify and discuss the quality management philosophies.

Identify and discuss Management approaches applicable in quality management.

Discuss the new product development process and inclusion of specification and standardization. (2.1) (12.5 Marks)

You must:

Briefly discuss the concept of new product development.

Explain the concept of specifications and standardizations.

Analyze the procurement procedure. (2.2) (12.5 Marks)

You must:

Discuss the procedure used for procurement of equipment.

Discuss the procedure used for purchasing services.