This document provides information about the ISCOM 361 purchasing and procurement course from University of Phoenix (UOP). It outlines the weekly course topics, assignments, and resources. The topics include purchasing strategies, supplier quality, e-procurement, supplier evaluations, purchasing documents, negotiation plans, risk management, and a signature crisis simulation assignment. Students will analyze purchasing structures, develop receiving inspection and evaluation plans, create a business case for e-procurement and more. The goal is to train students on key purchasing concepts and skills.

1. ISCOM/361
PURCHASING AND PROCUREMENT
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ISCOM 361 Week 1 PurchasingStrategies - Centralized vs.
Decentralized
Resource: Purchasing Strategies - Centralized vs. Decentralized Grading Guide
Identify a company or industry that you are either familiar with or one with which you
would like to become more familiar. As a purchasing professional of the chosen company
or industry, your job is to determine the type of purchasing organizational structure that
can effectively manage procurement functions.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that makes an argument for either a centralized or
decentralized purchasing organization.
Analyze how your chosen structure will support the following:
 Vendor sourcing
 Supplier cost objectives
 Supply chain integration objectives
 Comply with local, regional, global regulations
 Development of overall purchasing competency
 Material forecasting and scheduling
 Impact on logistics strategies
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.

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ISCOM 361 Week 2 Supplier Quality Challenge - Incoming
Receiving Inspection
Resource: Supplier Quality Challenge- Incoming Receiving Inspection Grading Guide
Create a 10- to 12-slide visual presentation, with speakers' notes, that outlines the
components of a receiving inspection plan.
Select a commodity to use as your example. Possible commodities include:
 Electrical components used in smartphone assembly
 Bulk food products, such as grains and liquids
 Mechanical components for industrial tool manufacturing
 Wiring components used in aerospace manufacturing
 Textiles used in clothing manufacturing
Develop a receiving inspection plan for suppliers of the selected commodity based on the
following criteria:
 Newly sourced supplier
 Existing sourced supplier
Analyze why this criteria is important to the receiving inspection plan strategy.
Assess the critical inspection elements to be considered when developing the plan,
including the following:
 Incoming lot inspections
 Sampling
 Frequency
 Lot containment
 Data management
 Special handling considerations
 Supplier notifications
 Disposition of non-conforming material
 Supplier returns
 Scrap
 Sorting
Include a process map of the incoming receiving inspection process.
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3. ISCOM 361 Week 3 Team - e-ProcurementBusiness Case
Development
Resource: e-Procurement Business Case Development Grading Guide
Your team has been chosen to develop a business case for implementing an
e-Procurement system for your commodity products.
Identify a company that you are familiar with and provide one example of a commodity
product that they use.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which the team will:
 Define the elements of e-Procurement employed with the commodity supplier.
 ERP/MRP system
 Transactions
 Forecasting
 Ordering
 Advance shipping notification
 Financial transactions
 Other- explain
 Supplier Communication
 Explain the benefits of e-Procurement.
 Identify the challenges of implementing and maintaining an e-Procurement system
and recommend mitigation actions.
Format the paper according to APA standards.
Submit your assignment.
Note: Grades are awarded based upon individual contributions to the Learning Team
assignment. Each Learning Team member receives a grade based upon his/her
contributions to the team assignment. Not all students may receive the same grade for the
team assignment.
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ISCOM 361 Week 3 Effective Supplier Evaluations
Resource: Effective Supplier Evaluations Grading Guide
Your Supply Chain Manager has assigned you the responsibility of developing a new
Supplier Evaluation process for your company. Your company has experienced an
unfavorable trend in low productivity as a result of component availability, re-working of
product, and increased inventory levels of nonconforming material. Your company cannot
seem to effectively measure supplier performance because it doesn't know which metrics
to implement that will drive the right changes.

4. To make matters even more challenging, your company is working to become ISO9001
certified. ISO9001:2008 requires supplier evaluation and data analyses, so this needs to
be considered when developing the Supplier Evaluation process.
Identify the top ten supplier performance criteria that you want to use in the evaluation
process.
Create a Supplier Evaluation Template that includes the key criteria data that you want to
analyze.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word proposal that includes:
 Purpose of a Supplier Evaluation process
 Example of template with evaluation criteria
 Implementation plan: include who is responsible for collecting data and how you
will determine which suppliers will be measured.
 Supplier communication plan to inform selected suppliers of this new process
 Explain how data will be used to drive supplier performance improvements.
Format the paper according to APA standards.
Submit your assignment.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Team - Purchasing DocumentsMatrix
Resource: Purchasing Document Matrix Template
Your team is required to train new procurement specialists and part of the training is to
provide a reference guide that includes all relevant purchasing documents.
Complete the Purchasing Document Matrix.
Include a cover sheet that summarizes the matrix.
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ISCOM 361 Week 4 Negotiation Plan Development
Resources: Negotiation Plan Development Grading Guide
You are a business negotiations consultant who has been hired by a start-up company to
create a training guide for its newly hired procurement specialists.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word negotiations training guide that includes:
 Elements of business negotiations

5.  Specific negotiation tactics pertaining to purchasing relationships
 Importance of supplier relationship management in negotiations
 Examples of successful negotiations
 Pitfalls to consider when entering into supplier negotiations
 The type of negotiations team that the company should develop (i.e. key
members)
 Financial outlook - the impact on financial results
Format the paper according to APA standards.
Submit your assignment.
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ISCOM 361 Week 5 Team - Risk ManagementPlan
Resource: Risk Management Plan Grading Guide
Your company produces jet skis for the U.S. market. One of your key suppliers of
engine components has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Your company is hitting its peak production season and has sales forecasts of 2,000
units per week for the next 12 weeks.
Your supplier has enough remaining inventory of components to support your
production for 4 weeks.
Create a 15-slide visual presentation with speaker notes that defines the methods that
you will use to manage the current supplier situation, and explain how you will
identify and onboard a new supplier to ensure the continued supply of components.
Describe the impact of the supplier's previous Chapter 11 bankruptcy on potential
supply.
Discuss your options relative to your customer communications during this critical
period. Include examples of how other companies have worked with troubled
suppliers and established risk mitigation techniques.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.
Submit your assignment.
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6. ISCOM 361 Week 5 Signature Assignment: Managinga Crisis
Simulation
Resource: Signature Assignment: Managing a Crisis Simulation Grading Guide
About Your Signature Assignment:
Signature/Benchmark Assignment: Managing a Crisis Simulation is designed to align with
specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning
Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to
do upon completion of their degree. Signature/Benchmark Assignments are graded with a
grading guide or an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be
aggregated across a location or college/school and used for course/program
improvements.
Resource: Pg. 169-187 of Ch. 7 of Purchasing and Supply Management
You are a Supply Chain Manager of a building supply company. Your company sells
building materials to building contractors, home improvement construction companies, as
well as the do-it-yourself weekend project homeowners.
You have been struggling with the supplier of roofing nails for several months and you are
fast approaching the peak roofing season. The supplier has been late on delivering orders
and when orders are delivered the boxes are damaged and the quantities of nails in the
boxes are inaccurate. Each box should have 1,000 nails, but you are getting complaints
from your customers that they are only receiving partial quantities in the boxes. The
situation with the supplier is getting so bad that some of your major customers are
threatening to go to another building supply company for roofing nails.
You have to get this situation under control before you lose much needed seasonal sales!
Create a supplier performance improvement plan.
Incorporate Lean SixSigma methodology into the problem solving and corrective action
process.
Include the steps that need to be taken to identify the root cause, potential containment,
and corrective action. Include how you will monitor the supplier's compliance to corrective
action, and explain whether or not the corrective action is effective.
Write an improvement plan in a 1,050- to 1,400-word document.
Format the paper according to APA standards.
Submit your assignment.
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