1. You have been tasked with a consultancy assignment to increase inventory turnover while having a low level of customer fulfilment (that is number of stock out, a customer requesting a product and no inventory available) for a retailer of sports clothing. Outline how you would conduct such an assignment.

2. What was long wall mining and what influence did it have on the development of socio-technical systems theory? Critically discuss how this theory developed so many years ago can still be applied to warehouse design and improvement today.

3. Outline how you would go about assessing the capability of a supply chain to cope with unexpected risks.

4. Explain how a supply chain capability to cope with environmental issues can be assessed. Use two supply chain samples such as a road haulage company and a food supply company. How do you assess each of these companies? and what are the differences in assessing them?

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