Critically analyse practices in managing a global supply chain of manufacturing firms in one industry of your choice. Based on your analysis of the good practices, you are required to advise a real life company (Gripple Ltd) improve performance of their supply chain
Which industry should I look at?

Popular practice means many firms have the same practice. For example, offshoring in low labour cost countries is a popular practice in labour intensive industry like garment &textile industry. For example, Clarks, H&M, Primark, Next have outsourced production to Asian suppliers.

Throughout lectures, we have provided you with essential knowledge needed to manage (global) supply chain activities.

It is an assessment task at a post graduate level. You need to use your judgment of what supply chain issues you should cover in your assignment. The advice is that the supply chain issues/activities you would like to discuss in the assignment should be relevant to Gripple’s supply chain activities.