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The document outlines the guidelines for an individual assignment focused on addressing operational challenges in the fresh produce supply chain in India. Students are required to select five out of fifteen specified challenges and provide innovative solutions, with a minimum word count of 1500 words. The assignment is due 10 days after the notification and must be submitted in PDF format, including references and personal assumptions as needed.

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OM - Formative assignemnt 1 PDF

The document outlines the guidelines for an individual assignment focused on addressing operational challenges in the fresh produce supply chain in India. Students are required to select five out of fifteen specified challenges and provide innovative solutions, with a minimum word count of 1500 words. The assignment is due 10 days after the notification and must be submitted in PDF format, including references and personal assumptions as needed.

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Forma ve assignment 1

Guidelines:
- Minimum word limit: 1500 words
- Individual assignment
- Due date: 10 days from assignment no fica on
- Document format: PDF
- Add reference in your assignment wherever possible.
- Please make your own assump ons to complete this assignment (If you
face any ques ons)

Assignment ques on:


We already discussed a case study in lecture 2 session : “Mission not
accomplished – How to realize full poten al from the Fresh produce supply
chain? – A case from India”. This case study discussed various opera onal
challenges faced by farmers in fresh produce supply chain in India.
We are invi ng you as a seasoned ‘opera ons consultant’ to provide expert
advice to address any five opera onal challenges out of 15 opera onal
challenges men oned as below. We provided some examples for each
opera onal challenges (Like : “How to store inputs like packing materials,
seeds, fer lizers etc” for Inventory). This list of example is only indica ve and
not exhaus ve.

You can concisely provide innova ve approaches and solu ons to address five
opera onal challenges (5 challenges * 300 words each = 1500 words).

• Design of new products – New crops based on demographic data and


base condi ons
• Inventory – How to store inputs like packing materials, seeds, fer lizers
etc
• Procurement – How to procure seeds, fer lizers, equipment etc
• Layout design – Row and column design, border crops, passage for
irriga on etc
• Demand planning – How to predict near accurate customer
requirements
• Capacity planning – How much to crop, mix of crops
• Scheduling – Pre-harvest, harves ng and post harves ng scenarios
• Pricing – How to fix price, MGP
• Quality control – How to follow established QA processes?
• Loca on decision – Where to acquire new lands?
• Maintenance – Crop and equipment maintenance, fer lizer applica on
• Technical know-how – What/when/how to cul vate? Technical know
how.
• Informa on technologies – Weather furca ng, automated data
harves ng from land, data automa on among various stakeholders
• Logis cs – How to arrange vehicle, loading and unloading materials, kind
of F&V to be transported?
• Storage facili es – How fast to transport F&A to cold storage facili es?

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