Your task is to address the following four questions for a sustainable logistics and supply chain. Read the givenbackgroundinformation to get some b

Your task is to address the following four questions for a sustainable logistics and supply chain. Read the givenbackgroundinformation to get some background on sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain.

You need to read and review other sources,which are available from your Learnonline course site, library, and anyother relevant informationfor this situation. Critically review the information and answer the following four (4) questionsinthe discussion section.

The questions to be addressed in your discussion section are:

1.Describethe challenges for sustainablelogistics and a supply chain for anelectric vehiclebattery supply chain.

2.Describe and discuss theroles of logistics managementin the supply chain for sustainable electric vehicle battery industry.

3.Discuss theessential trade-offsin meeting the performance goals while minimising total costs in sustainable logistics.

4.Explain and discuss the role of the supply chainin providing value to stakeholders in the electric vehicle battery industry.

Then provide recommendations on how these challenges faced by the electric vehicle battery industry for having a sustainable supply chain be resolved.

A customisedtitle to suit your analysis (Your work)-

2000 words

Student Full Name

Note-all answers must be supported by literature evidence.Thisis a suggested templateonly,and you are free to choose any headings that are appropriate for this assignment.

(Please deletethis section and all sections in theredfont from the template before submission)

Executive summary

This section contains a synopsis of your full report about 100 words (only amaximumof 150 words do not count towards your word count). Complete/finalise this section last. This section should also clearly express the general identified issues of sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain within two to three short paragraphs. Althoughthis section does not contribute to your word count however, the marker will not read more than 150 words.

An Executive Summary should be drafted as a snapshot of explanations document towards specific details stating and summarising the assessment questions, include briefly the current situation and examples, provide a summarised conclusion and state the recommendations.

Your report shouldbe extremely well writtenwith UK or Australian spelling- avoid the default US spelling in some of your Word software.Use appropriate headings and subheadings to highlight the readerthe logicalstructure of your analysis in all sections of this report. Clarity of some sentences can be improved by avoiding this, it etc. at the start of the sentence.

All sentences in your report should be clear and well written, with no grammatical or spelling mistakes.

Write this Executive summary and the conclusion sections- once you have answered all the other sections.

Introduction or Background and business environment (Use any appropriatesubheadingof your preferences)

This section contains a statement of the point of view that you have developed in response to the sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain sometimes called the thesis statement. Then, in thissection,you will illustrate your in-depth understating on this case situation and the issues (about 200 words and 2-4 paragraphs)clearly, adequately, concisely and comprehensively with a good structure. You will relate these discussions with a good reflection on your course content from Topics 1 to 10, whichever is appropriate.However, Topics 1 to 4 will give you ample knowledge to analyse the background information and write a good report. You may have a fewseparate headingsfor these discussions in this section as well. Havingbetter and shorter headingsfor these sections will be counted towards 2.3. Logical planning and sequence on your feedback form.

A good introduction should briefly introduce the issues in sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain to the reader and provide the point of view that is developed to respond to the issues with references/ citations.

Read the background documents and other suggested references to get some background. Tables given on the background documents are not important and you can safely ignore them, but figures are useful to get some understanding on Electric vehicle battery supply chains.

Discussion Question 1(Use any appropriatesubheadingof your preference- e.g.Sustainablelogistics Challenges ~- Do not have a heading titled asDiscussion Question 1)

In this section, you will describe and discuss the challenges oftheorganisations in the Electric vehicle battery supply chain within the context of sustainable logistics management and supply chain management in relations with examples (about 300 to 325 words within 2-4 paragraphs). Each topic in this course can provide issues to discuss in this section.

Having a better and shorter heading for these four discussion sections will be counted towards 4.1. Overall presentation in your feedback form. Please do not use this section heading as Discussion Question 1etc.; thenyou will get a poor grade for 4.1. Overall presentation.

Discussion Question 2(Use any appropriatesubheadingof your preference- e.g. Roles of Logistics ~ in ~~~)

In thissection,you will describe and discuss therolesof logistics management and supply chain management in relations to thissustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chaincontext andingeneral practice with examples (about 300 to 325 words within 2-4 paragraphs). For this question, you should look at logistics and logistics management activities that enhance sustainable actions or reduce environmental, social, and economic impacts (Triple bottom line approach for logistics) in the Electric vehicle battery industry.

Discussion Question 3(Use any appropriatesubheadingof your preference- e.g.Organisational performance trade-offs in ~)

Here, answerthe discussion question within the context of sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain (about 300 to 325 words within 2-4 paragraphs). Strengths and weaknesses are concisely and comprehensively discussed. The analysis should have references supporting clearly stated arguments. The trade-offs need to be specific towards which performance objectives e.g., time, cost, dependability, reliability, safety, quality, and triple bottom line measures. e.g., how do social measures impact on financial & environmental benefits? You should explore what the trade-offs are, and the impact, challenges, or benefits to sustainable logistics and how this aligns with minimising the total costs while meeting performance objectives such as time, dependability, reliability, safety, quality by balancing the triple bottom-line activities.

Discussion Question 4(Use any appropriatesubheadingof your preference- e.g., Role of ~ in adding value to ~)

In thissection,you will describe and discuss how the role of the logistics management activities and sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain are in adding value to all stakeholders (owners/ shareholders businesses, customers, government, other organisations, and society). You may critically compare and analyse what managers (who are looking after these nodes and activities) do, how they can help implement sustainable supply chain activities and how these actions translate to specific benefits to stakeholders (about 300 to 325 words within 2-4 paragraphs). The analysis should have references supporting clearly stated arguments.

In all of your answers to these discussion questions (1 to 4), all ideas are to be linked and critiqued.Also, providing examples from businesses with enhanced the answer and will be counted towards Criteria 1.5. Please note that you need to link theoryand/orapplications in your main discussion sections and in the recommendations.

Conclusion

Thisis where you will summarise what you have found through applying your literature research and the restatement of the overall point of view that hasbeen developedin your own words. (About 200 words; 2 to 3 paragraphs). All arguments shouldbe drawninto excellentconclusion,and the report must have a good logical flow, thus making it as an interesting read.It is advisableto write the Executive summary and the Conclusion sections after you have completed the main body by answering all the discussion questions.

Recommendations

This section contains asummaryof brief recommendations maximum 200 words on how the challenges can be overcome or provide potential solutions for a sustainable Electric vehicle battery supply chain (in relation tothe Topics 2 to 10 of this course).You need to establish the rationale for the recommendations in your mainbody,and that rationale is to be supported by academic references as well.

Please note,Conclusions and recommendations shouldbe writtenin individual sections, not summarised together.

Expectedword count=2000; Minimum of 1800 or Maximum of 2200.

This word countexcludesExecutive summary and list of references.

References

Provide aminimumof five (5) academic references (preferably no older than 2010). Three (3) of these mustberefereedacademic journal articles.Do not use the wordingssuch asReference list or List of references or Bibliography as this section heading.

please note the report has 4 questions based on electric vehicles battery supply chain Sustainable issues, roles of scm, trade-offs and value to stakeholders on sustainability of ev battery supply chain, and this is for logistics and supply chain management topic. please use following references provided, you can use upto 5-6 from following references

please mind the Turnitin score.

sincerely

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