PLEASE USE THE COMPANY Atlassian.

We have been learning about building lean activities and agile activities into the supply chain.

The two are often at opposition and the danger could be thinking that a company can either be lean or agile, but not both.

The challenge for these companies is to determine the best way to build lean and agile into their supply network.

With this in mind please respond to Parts A and B below.

CASE 1: Part A (5 mark):

200-250 words required. Use your own words and thoughts.

Use the company Atlassian please

For this company and using a product or service provided by this company:

i) Describe the product or service and describe the demand for the product indicating if the demand is stable or volatile with reasons.

ii) Based on (i) describe if the company should implement agile practices into its supply chain with reasons.

iii) Based on your opinion, describe one way this company could become more lean in its supply network and what waste would be minimized.

Answer as follows:

i) The product (or service) I will be discussing is ______________ . The demand for this product (or service) is _____________ (stable or volatile).

The reason I believe demand is ___________ (stable or volatile) is because ....

ii) Based on (i) I think the company ______________ (should or should not) implement agile practices into its supply chain because ....

iii) I thnk this company can become more lean in its supply chain by doing the following ....

By doing this lean activity the waste that would be eliminated would be ......

follow the criteria please THANKYOU IN ADVANCE and please use the company Atlassian

CASE 2: (5 Marks)

200-250 words required. Use your own words and thoughts.

Analyze yourself and compare your characteristics to the characteristics needed for supply chain managers.

i) Describe which characteristic you think is most important to be an effective supply chain manager and give reasons.

ii) Describe if you feel you have this characteristc or do not have this characteristic with reasons.

iii) Describe how you feel you can improve this characteristic if you have it or how you can develop this characteristic if you feel you do not have it.

Answer as follows:

i) I feel the most important characteristic for a supply chain manager to have is ______________ . My reason for stating this is ...... .

ii) I do feel I have this characteristic becase ........

OR

I do not feel I have this characteristic because ........

iii) While I feel I have this characteristic, I feel I can improve on this characteristic by .......

OR

While I feel I do not have this characteristic,I feel I can develop this characteristic by ........