NMIMS Global Access

School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)

Course: Operations and Supply Chain Strategies
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2021 Examination

Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:

 All Questions carry equal marks.

 All Questions are compulsory
 All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for
question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples,
illustrations as far as possible.
 All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
 Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for
attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the
source of reference.

 Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from
other students is not allowed.

 Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.

For Theoretical Answer For Numerical Answer

Assessment Parameter Weightage Assessment Parameter Weightage
Introduction 20% Understanding and usage 20%
Concepts and Application 60% of the formula
related to the question Procedure / Steps 50%
Conclusion 20% Correct Answer & 30%
Interpretation

1. Mr. Gupta is supply chain manager at Mega Mart one of the leading retail organization.
In the initial days of COVID 19 situation there was sudden rise in demand of FMCG
products. It was different kind of the disruption for the retail industry. In that scenario
every business required some competitive edge to sustain in market. Discuss different
 NMIMS Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Operations and Supply Chain Strategies
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2021 Examination

supply chain drivers with Mr. Gupta that ultimately helps Mega Mart to enables entire
supply chain. (10 Marks)

2. Mr. Bansal was working with reputed tuition classes and having rich experience in
teaching. One-day innovative idea came to his mind to start online classes. This idea
will give Mr. Bansal more students and better geographic reach. Suddenly he left the
job and started his online classes business. He struggles a lot in initial days of business
but later he manages his business in break even. Explain existing situation of online
learning classes with respected to industry life cycle. (10 Marks)

3. XYZ Ltd Tourism Company running business from last 10 years and have many good
customer base. Company also operated offices in multiple cities. But due to COVID 19
company faced a lots of challenges. Because of such pandemic situation people were
not traveling and not using any of company’s service. At the same time company was
not able to generate revenue and not able provide salaries to employees.

a. You are appointed as business consultant in the organization. Suggest some corporate
level strategies that ultimately helps them. (5 Marks)

b. Should company use retrenchment strategy or not? Discuss (5 Marks)

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