Q1. Assume that a particular company operates a single DC that services all of Canada. It is important to understand this assumption regardless of the actual number of DCs that exist today, you must assume that the company operates using a single DC located at their home office location. You are the Vice President of Supply Chain for your chosen company. You have been asked to prepare a report that will assist in the selection of a new distribution centre location. For your first challenge, you must select a new location and support why you have selected this location using your learnings from this course.

Q2. Describe (using your course learnings) what the impacts are of potentially opening this new DC. You must demonstrate a depth of understanding here. Simply stating potential impacts is not enough, you need to consider how the impacts you identify are interconnected. To complete this challenge, you will need to provide the location of your current DC and consider a region in Canada that may need to be serviced by a new DC (example will be covered in the in class instructions). In this challenge you must provide a specific location you would recommend and then factors that also need to be considered before making the final determination. You can assume that the demand for your products is corelated to population.

Q3. Consider one of your companys major products and assume that a portion of this product will require some form of reverse logistics. Briefly describe the actual product you have chosen and then describe the strategies you would use to manage reverse logistics for this product. Please remember that you are being challenged here to apply your course learnings do not research how they are actually managing reverse logistics, rather use your course learnings to conceptualize what a reverse system might look like and why for this product and new DC location.

Q4. Prepare a recommendation on your opinion of whether your company should own and operate the new DC of if you believe you should outsource all or a portion of this to a third party. You again must demonstrate a connection to your course learnings and apply these to this challenge.