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Level 4 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Internal Environmental Measurement and Assessment

LSC402 · Logistics and the Business Environment — Week 7 of 16

CourseLSC402
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Internal Environmental Measurement and Assessment

  1. VRIO framework
  2. Logistics balanced scorecard
  3. Core competency analysis
  4. Warehouse productivity metrics
  5. VRIO Framework EXPLAINED | B2U | Business To You
  6. Balanced Scorecard (With A Step-by-Step Example) | From A Business Professor

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Apply a technique to quantify a logistic business’s internal environment.
  • 3.4 Assess a logistics business’s internal environment.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: apply a technique to quantify a logistic business’s internal environment.

Study materials

Videos

  • VRIO Framework EXPLAINED | B2U | Business To You · YouTube · Business To You · 14 min · for registered students
  • Balanced Scorecard (With A Step-by-Step Example) | From A Business Professor · YouTube · Business School 101 · 11 min · for registered students
  • Episode 164: Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard · YouTube · Alanis Business Academy · 10 min · for registered students
  • Kaplan & Norton's Balanced Scorecard · YouTube · tutor2u · 7 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 4: Managing Firm Resources · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 101–134 · for registered students
  • Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial Accounting, ch. 12: Balanced Scorecard and Other Performance Measures · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 565–604 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 8.5: The internal environment · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 231–234 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Categories of Business Logistics
  • Week 2: Core Elements of Logistics Operations
  • Week 3: Logistics and Supply Chain Integration
  • Week 4: Internal Functions of a Logistics Business
  • Week 5: Organisational Structures in Logistics
  • Week 6: Foundations of the Logistics Internal Environment
  • Week 7: Internal Environmental Measurement and Assessment
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: The External Operating Environment
  • Week 10: External Environmental Analysis and Quantification
  • Week 11: Strategic Environmental Synthesis
  • Week 12: Applying Logistics and the Business Environment in practice…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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