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Level 4 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

External Environmental Analysis and Quantification

LSC402 · Logistics and the Business Environment — Week 10 of 16

CourseLSC402
Week10 of 16
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This week’s topics

External Environmental Analysis and Quantification

  1. PESTLE analysis scoring
  2. Porter's Five Forces application
  3. Competitive benchmarking
  4. Environmental uncertainty profiling
  5. Porter’s Five Forces | SCMT 4653
  6. Lecture 24:ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY & RESOURCE DEPENDENCY

What you will be able to do

  • 4.3 Assess a logistics business’s external environment.
  • 4.4 Apply a technique to quantify a logistics business’s external environment.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess a logistics business’s external environment.

Study materials

Videos

  • Porter’s Five Forces | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 13 min · for registered students
  • The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 13 min · for registered students
  • Porter's Five Forces of Analysis: How to Determine the Attractiveness of an Industry · YouTube · Alanis Business Academy · 13 min · for registered students
  • PESTLE Analysis · YouTube · tutor2u · 9 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 3: Evaluating the External Environment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 71–100 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 8.3: A firm's external macro environment – PESTEL · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 223–227 · 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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