Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is for students to learn how to develop an operations consulting proposal.

Assignment Steps

Resources: Operations and Supply Chain Management: Ch. 25, Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®

Choose a business in the media having difficulties with its operating model or one which is struggling in your community (Houston, TX).

Evaluate how all or some of the items from the Operations Consulting Tool Kit in Operations and Supply Chain Management could help this business get back on track.

Determine the resources and data you will need to deploy an operations consulting engagement with this business.

Develop a business case including financial benefits on how operations consulting can have a positive impact on the business.

Develop a 10- to 15- (NO More than 15) slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation of an operations consulting engagement proposal to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the target firm.

Use graphs, tables, and visual aids in the slides, and reference the source to from you got them. All slides have to have speaker notes with In-Text citation.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. Use header, headlines, in-text Citations, and references according to the APA guideline format.

NOTE: Reading material attached here. Chapter 25 (use it as a reference and use the methods mentioned there for the paper as needed).