Data Cleaning & Statistical Methods in Supply Chain

From the prior weeks, you have focused on two important phases of the SCA model. In the Initialization Phase, you learned how to get stakeholders involved with a SCA effort at work. In the Strategy Phase, you learned how strategy needs to inform analysis within the supply chain and how the analysis should align with the organization’s strategic goals.

Consider the following questions. Then use headers to structure your work, compose your original narrative, and use online research to strengthen weak areas of your narrative as you edit your coverage of these topics. They are as follows:

SCA Initialization

How should an organization go about properly initializing for a new supply chain analytics project? How do they properly ensure success from their choices at the very start?

SCA Strategy

How should leaders and analysts ensure alignment between the lower-level SCA strategy and the higher-level full organization strategy? How does analytics enhance strategy?

Data Cleaning and Statistical Methods

Research the topics of data cleaning and statistical methods online beyond what you have observed in the course and with your own real-world experiences. Using this detailed examination, write in your own narrative how you would use data structures and data curation methods to improve a supply chain you are either familiar with or have become familiar with from online research.