ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD

(Department of Business Administration)

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Course: Entrepreneurial Supply Chain (9555) Semester: Spring, 2025

Level: PGD

Please read the following instructions for writing your assignments.

(AD, BS, BEd, MA/MSc, MEd) (ODL Mode)

Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 50

ASSIGNMENT No. 1

Q.1. What are the differences between supply chain perspectives and traditional business perspectives? Discuss with examples. (20)

Q.2. What is the role of customer service in creating and adding value to the supply chain? Discuss with examples. (20)

Q.3. How would you utilize customers as sources of ideas for business opportunities? Discuss with examples. (20)

Q.4. How could you form a framework for assessing business opportunities? Discuss with examples. (20)

Q.5. What is industry analysis and how is it conducted? Discuss with examples. (20)

ASSIGNMENT No. 2

Total Marks: 100

Pass Marks: 50

This assignment is a research-oriented activity. You are required to obtain information from a business/commercial organization and prepare a report of about 1000 words on the topic allotted to you to be submitted to your teacher for evaluation.

You are required to select one of the following topics according to the last digit of your roll number. For example, if your roll number is P-3427180 then you will select issue # 0 (the last digit): -

List of Topics:

1. Corporate Entrepreneurship
2. Supply chains thinking
3. Relationship between DDemandChain and Value Chain
4. Strategic Alliance in Entrepreneurship
5. Framework for Analysis
6. Conduct of Education and Training
7. Supply Chain Risk
8. Supply Chain Due Diligence
9. Management Program for Supply Chain
10. Historical Perspectives of Reaping the Payoff

The report should follow the following format:

1. Title page
2. Acknowledgments
3. An abstract (one-page summary of the paper)
4. Table of contents
5. Introduction to the issue (brief history & significance of issue assigned)
6. Practical study of the organization (with respect to the issue)
7. Data collection methods
8. SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats) relevant to the issue assigned
9. Conclusion (one-page brief covering important aspects of your report)
10. Recommendations (specific recommendations relevant to the issue assigned)
11. References (as per APA format)
12. Annexes (if any)

GUIDELINES FOR ASSIGNMENT # 2:

• 1.5 line spacing
• Use headers and subheads throughout all sections
• Organization of ideas
• Writing skills (spelling, grammar, punctuation)
• Professionalism (readability and general appearance)
• Do more than repeat the text
• Express a point of view and defend it.

PRESENTATION:

Presentations provide you the opportunity to express your communication skills, knowledge and understanding of concepts learned during practical study assigned in assignment No. 2.

You should use transparencies and any other material for effective presentation. The transparencies are not the presentation, but only a tool; the presentation is the combination of the transparencies and your speech. Workshop presentation transparencies should only be in typed format.

The transparencies should follow the following format:

1. Title page
2. An abstract (one-page summary of the paper)
3. Introduction to the issue (brief history & significance of issue assigned)
4. Practical study of the organization (with respect to the issue)
5. Data collection methods
6. SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities & threats) relevant to the issue assigned
7. Conclusion (one-page brief covering important aspects of your report)
8. Recommendations (specific recommendations relevant to the issue assigned)