Module Name: Risk & Resilience in Holistic Value Chain Management

Please read this assessment brief in its entirety before working on the Assessment Task.

The Assessment Task

You are expected to work within your group, research from the internet and the literature, prepare a poster and deliver a group presentation. You must cover the following six tasks:

1. Your tutor will assign a specific industry to your group. An industry will be chosen from: https://www.ibisworld.com/united-kingdom/list-of-industries/

2. Search for information about the history, activities, products, customers, and news.

3. Critically evaluate the current risk management within that industry’s supply chain.

4. Use the concepts and discussions from the class and relate your finding to the module.

5. Discuss challenges and opportunities to improve the current industry’s value chain.

6. Critically discuss the industry’s potential to improve its value chain by managing risk and resilience. Make your specific recommendations to reach desired supply chain state.

Group composition & duration

The poster should be one page and less than 2400 words, excluding figures and references. Presentations are average 2 minutes for each team member e.g. 12 min for team of 6 ±10%.

The groups of 5 members (minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 members) are self-enrolled. All members group must be present and participate in the presentation and discussions.

The poster and presentations should focus on facts, analysis, and recommendations. There is no need for definitions, long descriptions, or history. These must be at executive level.

Presentation Skills

The presentation assessment is designed to assess your critical thinking and research skills, including the ability to collect and analyse information on a given topic and to make effectiverecommendations, and crucially to present effectively to a wider audience in a poster format.

The clarity and effectiveness of the written, oral, and visual presentation, research skills, and evidence of critical reflection are criteria for the assessment of this presentation element.

The Poster must be prepared by all team members with equal participation by all members.

The expected specific industry of your team mentioned above is preferred to be a real-world example. There are also marks related to general presentation skills, materials, referencing.

The presentation could be developed in MS PowerPoint, Prezi, Apple Keynote or any other suitable presentation software.

A PDF copy of the presentation should be uploaded on the Turnitin link provided on NILE, by 2359 hours on Friday the12thof April 2022 by only one member of the group (representative).

Every group member should upload a word document with the names of the rest of the groups members and highlight the name of the group member who was tasked to upload the PDF document.

If you are unable to form/join a group, please discuss this with your class tutor. Group members’ names are registered as self-enrol by a set deadline announced in class.

Assessment Grading

	DESCRIPTION	SCORE
1	Research and Understanding (Evidenced in the content included and the way in which the poster is presented) Criteria: Is the presentation clear, interesting and relevant?Is it to time?Does it explain the content and context of the research that went into the poster? Are all members of the group confident about the underpinning research and able to answer questions regarding their own research into the topic?	35%
2	Group Collaboration and Participation (must be provided, if asked, in the presentation) Evidence is required of group collaboration. The group representative prepares a Group Collaboration Document.	20%
3	Visual Poster (Evidenced by the approach taken to design and the evidence being present) Does the poster work visually? Is the poster clear and could it be interpreted without a presentation? Have you followed poster design guidelines?	20%
4	Statistical Evidence The students MUST identify statistics to support the research, which must be from reliable sources and add value to the content	15%
5	References Have you identified appropriate research sources, have you correctly cited and referenced your sources using the Harvard Referencing System?	10%

All members of the group must be present. A last-minute cancellation by one member of the group is acceptable and this will not affect the overall grade for those members who attend. The absent member must CLEARLY EXPLAIN and justify (to the tutor via email) the reason for their absence and must fall within the spirit of Mitigating Circumstances. (see below). The missing member must also clearly demonstrate their contribution to the group’s work (see item 2 below). If not, they may fail the assessment and their work will fall within the G grade category. If more than one person is not present, the tutor will recommend that the presentation is postponed until all members are available.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of the module that are being assessed in this assessment are outcomes a, c, d and e (refer to Module Learning Outcomes):

· Investigate & evaluate risk management challenges making appropriate use of academic resources

· Demonstrate originality in problem-solving with respect to the recommendations regarding the value chain

· Relate theory to practice in the supply chain context when recommending qualitative or quantitative techniques to solve organisational value chain problems

· Perform effectively in a team to undertake a given task and collaborate efficiently in complex situations.