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Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Key Assignment

• Explain the importance of developing metrics and KPIs in logistics and supply chain operations.*******
• Explain what metrics indicate and how they can benefit an organization. *******

******Provide citations and references to support your discussion.

Responses to Other Students: (SEE POSTS BELOW) Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with a reply of 100-200 words about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. Use the following to guide you in your responses:

• Discuss the pros and cons of each technique discussed.
• Would you utilize it in your current of future place of employment? Provide justification for why or why not.

PEER RESPONSES:

.1. Katherina

The importance of developing metrics and KPIs in logistics and supply chain operations is very crucial for the success of the company which is the reason why it is discussed all the time in meetings as it determines the company’s feedback based on their ratings. It gives you an incite of your performance on managing you fleet, the utilization factor if you vehicles, the delivered cost per unit, the company ’s efficiency concerning dispatch and distributions and also the fulfillment rates.

The metrics helps to identify problems or situations that can be improved and provides information to take actions over them. If it can be measured it can be improved. It helps us be more efficient, productive and improve our position against our competitors. One of the main thing is the ability to implement, monitor and evaluate with consistency.

The KPIs you require to measure your performance to prove your productivity and proficiency. You basically have to determine what you really want to measure and check if it is useful to increment the efficiency and productivity of your business because all that can be measured may not actually be useful. One of the key issues of an organization is to implement systems that can deliver indicators of the performance that are held both internally and externally, as you consider the entire supply chain. For example the inventory, storage, transport, distribution and customer service.

In addition, the supply chain performance metric gives a different view of the supply chain. The important decision for all businesses or organizations is to verify and allocate which supply chain metrics are most important and how they can be utilized. Many companies use supply chain performance metrics that are easy to calculate but may not necessarily give a true indication of how the supply chain is performing. Sometimes companies use different metrics for their logistics department to apply, however other parts of the supply chain may be negatively impacted.

Companies have to be mindful of their selection of metrics for department to adhere to in order for positive and successful feedback.

As stated metrics indicate success when it is understandable, quantity which is expressed by a value that is objective derived from accurate data and not subjective. Measures the main importance of the data. Also consuming to collect and may require time to be taken away from line staff to prepare. This can be counterproductive therefore these types of metrics should be avoided. It is beneficial for the company because it causes correct behavior and improvement within employees and departments.

References :

CTU resources unit 3 retrieved from https://class.ctuonline.edu/_layouts/MUSEViewer/As…

2. Alyssa

The importance of developing metrics and KPIs in logistics and supply chain operations is very important for day to day operations of any company. If you do not use these metrics and KPIs then it would make it very difficult to keep up with how the company is performing. KPIs immediately give you feedback and shows you what may be going wrong. Getting answers like this will make it easier for you to address a situation before it gets beyond your control. This helps the company to provide the consistency they want their company to have and show to their customers. Now some of the things that the KPI measures are not necessarily important, so you have to make sure to eliminate the items that you do not need for your company. Otherwise these categories can take up space and possibly give you incorrect information because of the information being put together. The supply chain performance is important because it helps you to really see how the company is doing and then uses different metrics to figure out what may need to be fixed or changed. Once you get those particular things fixed or changed then it will help the company to grow and produce better results. You have to keep testing different things with different metrics because different metrics could come up with different results. So you have to make sure that the results you are getting are accurate. This also helps to let you know if one metric says something is wrong but another metric says it has to be like this for a different aspect to work, then from there, the company can decide which one is more important and what they would rather have ding so well. Now there are some metrics that can stop production, so you want to make sure to stay away from those metrics, otherwise you could lose out on money.

 

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Please read the case study and provide a case analysis using the following outline and criteria.

– 500 words (see attached sample).

– Evaluate the business from an investment banker’s.

– Evaluate the opportunity(ies): Product advantage; Market unmet needs; Industry analysis; Trends; Proof; Pricing.

– Evaluate the strategy: Business strategy; Sales and marketing strategy; Operations strategy.

– Evaluate management: Track record; Education; Any other characteristics.

– Give your analysis and recommendations.

 

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A celebrity patient is admitted to the hospital. Your friend Jennifer is a nurse on the floor where the male celebrity patient is staying. All of the nurses are going out of their way to work on that floor. The patient’s records and privacy must be treated like those of any other patient. The hospital has strict protocol, and only the nurses and staff involved in his care and treatment are permitted to work that floor and interact with that patient. Jennifer has always been a big fan of the celebrity. The next time she is working her shift, she takes him his dinner. When she enters the room, he is sleeping. He is hooked up to an IV and standard monitoring machines. He is also bandaged due to his wounds from a car accident. He looks pretty beat up but is recovering nicely. Jennifer decides to take a picture with her personal cell phone that she snuck in. This is for her personal use. She does not intend to sell, post, or distribute the picture in any way. After she takes the picture, she heads back to the nurses’ station, and she and the other nurses gather around the computer. She glimpses what looks like the celebrity’s medical records, but she is not sure. She does know that some of those nurses do not work on her floor and are not, therefore, authorized to viewthe records. She also remembers there was a note on the celebrity’s chart about an error on the medical history, but she knew the day shift would address it. She wraps up her shift and heads home. She decides to stop at her local diner and have a late night coffee and snack. When she walks in, she sees the local diner is packed with entertainment reporters hanging out to get the scoop on the celebrity’s condition. She giggles to herself as she quietly drinks her coffee since she is involved in treating him, and no one there knows. She pays for her coffee and snack and leaves the diner. The next day, she is getting ready for her noon shift and turns on the television. She is startled to see an update on the news about the celebrity and HER cell phone picture splashed on the TV. There are also private details about his injuries and medical records in the news story. When she goes to grab her phone from her purse, her stomach sinks when she finds her phone is gone. She must have left it at the diner by accident, and someone there picked it up and distributed her private photo. When she goes to work, the hospital administrator is outraged and threatening to fire anyone involved in this violation. A full investigation is launched. The celebrity is discharged within a week, and Jennifer thinks this horrible incident is behind her. The next month, she receives a summons for a lawsuit. The celebrity is suing her for distribution of the picture. The image was traced back to her cell phone, and he is alleging her photo of him while incapacitated has damaged his career because his attractive appearance is a large part of his brand. He is also suing her for defamation since the medical information given to the public was false. Jennifer is panic-stricken. She goes into work to try to get her life back to normal and is immediately escorted to the administrator’s office. She is told she is fired for violating the hospital’s patient privacy regulations and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act law. She is told that since she violated policy by distributing private medical details of a patient to the public, the hospital will not defend her in any civil lawsuit. Jennifer instantly tries to explain she had nothing to do with the leaking of information or distributing the photo, but the administrator will not listen. She is escorted out of the building. In this assignment, you will describe the following issues: the legal obligation healthcare providers have to protect private health information and to maintain accurate medical records including information regarding the purpose of maintaining correct information within medical records and who is charged with ownership of medical records, the celebrity patient’s legal argument surrounding the release of his private health information and the inaccuracy of the information released, and a legal defense of Jennifer, who is being accused of mismanaging health information. Your defense should be based on legal theory and not just your opinion or feeling. In order to respond to this case study, you will need to research at least two legal cases that demonstrate both the patient’s and the provider’s privacy rights and obligations regarding medical records and private health information. Briefly explain the issues of the two cases you cite, and describe their outcomes. How do the cases relate to the above scenario? Do you agree with the court’s decisions in the two cases? Why, or why not? Your response should consist of at least two pages. Be sure to use proper A

 

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Describe three ethical values or codes that you deem to be of high importance to you in a current or future role in human services. Select a vignette from the section on confidentiality and propose a possible solution based upon the values and professional ethical standards you have described.

 

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