P2 Review of research industry report on Supply Chain over the past three years as an HBR article (20 marks). You are expected to obtain at least a dozen industry reports such as readily available reports over the last 3 years by PwC, Cap Gemini, McKinsey, IBM, SCMR or other supply chain reports via the internet, as well as the Guest Lecture by Prof John Gattorna and his book Dynamic Alignment. From these reports/book research and consolidate issues, risks and challenges faced by global supply chains, and identify barriers and enablers of supply chains. Further, identify areas where Australian firms – in particular small and medium firms - seem to be facing a shortfall in relevant competencies and capabilities within organisations to manage their supply chains. In this essay discuss the role of supply chain management and advanced technologies (specifically, additive manufacturing, 3D printing, IoT, cloud computing, blockchain etc) together with transition to sustainability across supply chains ie. what would be the economic, environmental, and social impacts of adopting advanced technologies on current supply chains and how they ought to change the future SC in the coming 5 years? Examples of some industry reports are: 1. https://www.cdp.net/en-US/Pages/events/2016/supply-chain/Global-Supply-Chain-Report-2016.aspx 2. https://www.accenture.com/t20150523T015757__w__/kr-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/About-Accenture/PDF/2/Accenture-CDP-Supply-Chain-Report-2015.pdf 3. http://www.e2open.com/assets/pdf/papers-and-reports/SCMWorld_Chief_Supply_Chain_Officer_Report_2014.pdf 4. https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/files/se__sv_se__none__smarter-sc_v2.pdf The aim of this exercise is to address one or some of the following topics (this list is not exhaustive): 1. Understanding supply chain excellence 2. Why is planning and designing a closed and open loop supply chain/value network so hard? 3. Supply Chain metrics – does that matter? 4. Identify supply chains that demonstrate best practice 5. Outsourcing vs insourcing 6. Procurement policies and their management 7. Supply chain integration, collaboration and alignment 8. Service value networks and value co-creation 9. Supply chain risk, complexity and disruption management 10. Role of digital ubiquity in supply chains and data analytic tools 11. Role of technology and ecommerce in service delivery – especially the last mile to the end consumer 12. Why should supply chains be sustainable, and the role of reverse supply chains and circular economy concepts in managing sustainable supply chains? 13. How global and domestic partners can maximize efficiency and mitigate risks through leveraging 3PL for optimised services. 14. How are businesses from different industry sectors consolidating their businesses and their supply chains in search of value creation. Based on the research conducted, identify a contemporary and provocative topic that would be well suited for you to write an HBR Magazine Article (20 marks) (Note deciding on a topic is key to this assignment). Please look at the HBR website https://hbr.org/magazine for samples of the thought leadership articles and see https://hbr.org/guidelines-for-authors for the format/style in which these articles are written. Ensure you maintain exemplary quality, include visual artefacts, and academic rigour as per the five qualities of expertise, evidence, originality, usefulness and persuasiveness in these HBR articles available via https://hbr.org/guidelines-for-authors . Please follow HBR article format and structure as provided on the HBR website as you will be judged on the 5 criteria’s listed above. Assignment Submission format: Use Font 12 Calibri with single line spacing and submit the Microsoft Word file only. Follow HBR level of academic rigour as per HBR wesbite.