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Plagiarism consists of a person using the words or ideas of another as if they were his or her
own. That is, using, or attempting to use, another person’s work without acknowledgement.
The phrase ‘using another person’s work’ includes, but is not limited to:
• paraphrasing the work of another person;
• directly copying any part of another person’s work;
• summarising the work of another person;
• using or developing an idea or theme derived from another person’s work;
• using experimental results obtained from another person’s work; and
• in the case of collaborative projects, falsely representing the individual contributions
of the collaborating students where individual contributions are to be identified.
Charles Sturt University takes a serious view of plagiarism and cheating in any form of
assessment, and will take appropriate steps to detect plagiarism including by electronic
means. Other forms of cheating will also be treated with the utmost seriousness.
Penalties for plagiarism are listed in the Academic Regulations under the Student Academic
Misconduct Rule. The penalties include:
• a caution or reprimand;
• awarding of zero marks in the assignment, essay, project, test, examination or other
work in respect of which academic misconduct has occurred;
• a fail in the subject;
• a fine;
• suspended enrolment; or
• exclusion from the University.
Assessment item 4
Impact of New Initiatives
Value: 20%
Due Date: 19-Apr-2019
Return Date: 15-May-2019
Length: 1500
Submission method options: EASTS (online)
Task
The Supply Chain Management Director of the Brazilian Supermarket chain Compretudo is
looking for a new Freight Forwarder to manage their trade lane from the suppliers in your
country and your neighbouring country, as described in Assignment 2. You have previously
identified those countries. If successful the new Freight Forwarder would take over all
Compretudo’s freight forwarding business. You are the Business Development Director for Fast
and Lose (F&L), an expanding Freight Forwarding business in your country. You are changing
F&L’s business focus more towards global supply chain management. Because of the potential
business from Compretudo you are thinking of partnering with a Freight Forwarder in Brazil,
‘Rápido e Apertado’.
Compretudo’s Supply Chain Management Director has asked you for an appraisal of their
supply chain security issues and how you would enhance their supply chain visibility.
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• The benefits of sourcing their goods from your country and your neighbouring country
(previously identified) but with suggestions for risk mitigation and security;
• How Fast and Lose would co-ordinate and manage the various supply chain
management roles and activities in moving the goods from the sellers in your country
and in a neighboring country (previously identified) to the point of consolidation in
your country, shipping to and distribution in Brazil.
• An appreciation of the potential risks to the security of their end to end supply chain in
this specific scenario and any initiatives that may improve security and visibility and
win the new business.
Rationale
This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
• be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the operation of a global
sourcing model
• be able to articulate the roles of the members of a typical supply chain
• be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the key concepts of international
supply chain management
• be able to discuss and evaluate critically practical and topical international supply
chain security initiatives and issues
• be able to assess critically the role that both Customs and business plays in securing
international trade
• be able to assess and apply the principles contained in the WCO Framework of
Standards to a supply chain scenario
To expand and assess the students understanding of the impact of supply chain security
initiatives on supply chain management decisions.
This assignment will contribute to your progress towards achieving all the CSU graduate
learning outcomes and in particular:
• Professional Practice, Academic Literacy & Numeracy and Information & Research
Literacies
Marking criteria and standards
Your ability to:
• identify the benefits of outsourcing to your country and a neighboring country along
with suggestions for mitigating any risks and threats to security posed by outsourcing.
(Weighting 0.2)
• explain how Fast and Lose would co-ordinate and manage the various supply chain
management roles and activities in moving the goods from the sellers in your country
and a neighbouring country to the point of consolidation in your country, shipping to
and distribution in Brazil. (Weighting 0.2)
• describe the potential supply chain security risks in this specific scenario and any
initiatives that may improve security and visibility. (Weighting 0.3)
• use informed sources to appropriately support your position. (Weighting 0.1)
• communicate effectively in academic writing (Weighting 0.1)
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required APA (6th Ed) style (Weighting 0.1)
Your assignment will be marked using the marking sheet below and each aspect of the
assignment will be graded as either:
• Fail (FL)
• Pass (P)
• Credit (CR)
• Distinction (DI)
• High Distinction (HD)
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All assignments are to be presented in MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line
spacing. Your paragraph spacing should be set at 6 pt before and 6 pt after. Within your written
work if you directly quote from a source and the quotation is more than 40 words you must set
off as a block quotation, indented by 1cm in Arial Narrow, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing.
Charles Sturt University is committed to ensure that all written work is of a high grammatical
standard. You must pay particular attention to your grammar and expression in your written
submissions. Grammatical and expression standards will form part of the marking criteria for
all assignments in this subject.
Referencing
Citing or referencing is the process of acknowledging the words, ideas or data of others used in
the preparation of an assessment. This is important to allow the readers of your work to locate
and check each source of information and importantly to avoid plagiarism. A reference is
necessary when:
• another writer is directly quoted
• the ideas of another writer are reported or rephrased.
Like many other schools at Charles Sturt University, CCES uses the American Psychological
Association (APA) referencing style. Students must use the APA (6th ed.) referencing style when
completing all assessments.
To assist Students to understand how to reference and avoid unintentional plagiarism the
Library has produced guidance to referencing assignments, essays, theses, dissertations and
other works can be found at:
http://student.csu.edu.au/library/integrity/referencing-at-csu
The University has published a guide to using the APA referencing style and it can be found at:
http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/294977/APA-ReferencingSummary.pdf
In your assignments and submissions in this Course you will often be referring to international
agreements/treaties etc. As the APA Publication Manual does not explicitly provide
instructions in this regard the following is provided by CCES as a guide that you may find
helpful.
https://doms.csu.edu.au/csu/items/8bd3db9b-711f-4053-8426-9d652bda9961/1/
If you have any doubts about the referencing requirements and your responsibilities in this
regard you are encouraged to contact your subject coordinator before you provide any written
work.
Students have a responsibility to uphold University standards on ethical scholarship. Good
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