1. The complexity and interconnected nature of today's supply chains makes them more prone to severe impacts from disruptions - whether from minor incidents like shipping or weather delays to more serious interruptions like those from a pandemic, cyberattacks or natural disasters. In response to disruptions,supply chain resiliencehas become a priority for organisations. Supply chains need to be able to handle disruptive events without breaking. To manage that act, they need to get better at collaboration.explaininfullandincludereferencesinhavardstyleandprovideexplainatationworththemarkallocation (25)
   1. What is meant by "collaboration" between supply chain organisations?
   2. What are the different types of collaboration and which one is best suited to manage a pandemic, like that of Covid-19?
2. Supply chains typically generate massive amounts of data. Business Analytics and Business Intelligence help to make sense of all this data, uncovering patterns and generating insights for smarter, quicker, and more efficient decision making. The tools automate the diagnostic work and present the results in visual formats that are easier to understand. As a result, relevant information in readily usable formats is quickly generated for supply chain managers. How will business analytics and digitization drive supply chain success? Extensively discuss. (25)
3. Critically discuss in what ways are clients and customers counting on 3PLs for involvement with information technology based services. (25)
4. Describe how a supply chain information system enables process excellence and links the essential elements for organisations. (25)