Assignment title: Management
Table of Contents Introduction – Purpose of this report and introduce the following topics. I. History and evolution of Apple and COFCO operations and supply chains (Approx. 1200 words). Provide separately a current snapshot of Apple and COFCO global companies. Describe separately how Apple and COFCO achieved market share domination. Analyse separately the value chain, market forces and strategies used at Apple and COFCO. II. Compare and contrast Apple and COFCO (Approx. 2500 words). Managing their 'strategic resources and operations' to achieve a competitive advantage in respect to: sourcing of raw materials, global manufacturing strategy, their people, sustainability, global supply chains and logistics models through to delivering goods and services to customers. Interconnectivity of their strategic resources and operations to achieve a global supply chain advantage III. Sustainable operations and global supply chains at Apple and COFCO (Approx. 500 words). Identify the criticality of integrated sustainability concepts around globalisation of inbound logistics, operations and outbound logistics at Apple and COFCO IV. Conclusion & the future at Apple and COFCO (Approx. 500 words). Identify the key issues that will require board and executive time in the future Challenges confronting Apple/COFCO as they commence the next stage of growth 2000 words its now the comparison part and plz make sure u cover all the main 5 parts of the comparison with proper division of words only comparison part require