In the final project, you are required to perform various tasks that represent the kind of activities that an operations manager might be involved...

In the final project, you are required to perform various tasks that represent the kind of activities that an operations manager might be involved with on a regular basis. The overall project will focus on different elements of SCM and a fictional company’s effort to improve organizational performance. You will assume the role of an operations manager within the fictional organization. This Week: Supplier SelectionsYou are given “domestic-only” evaluation criteria for supplier selections. You must decide how these criteria should change in order to evaluate suppliers not located in the United States and submit your recommendations in a memo.For this task, you will imagine your fictional company to be a competitor for a well-recognized company (Note: Specifically choose one of the following two for your fictional company—a competitor of Hewlett Packard for printers and cameras or a generic competitor of Procter & Gamble in the personal care products category) to give you a context and an industry for reference. Your industry choice needs to be the one that has a significant supply chain and inventory of raw materials, components, and final products. Your company has been operating wholly in the United States with all domestic suppliers. The following factors have been used for domestic supplier evaluations: •Item unit cost•Proximity to your main location (you can choose your local city)•Delivery reliability•Quality performance (based on incoming inspection at your facility)•The supplier’s capability to assist with new product developmentThese factors are equally weighted at 20 percent of the total criterion.A limited number of your component items are being considered for outsourcing. Preliminary work has identified suppliers in Mexico, China, Taiwan, and India that appear to meet the basic criteria to be an approved supplier. You have some analysis to perform to support this outsourcing effort. You must develop a new set of supplier evaluation criteria elements that include the most significant elements of global sourcing.•Proximity is no longer a valid factor when outsourcing to the suggested countries. Review all the domestic supplier evaluation factors and write a memo recommending how the supplier evaluation factors should be modified for offshore suppliers. You should maintain a minimum of five factors and recommend no more than seven factors in the new supplier evaluation system.•Sourcing from all four countries mentioned above (Mexico, China, Taiwan, and India) may not be practical. In your memo, include a proposal stating how the final decision will be made to focus on a supplier in only one country or the rationale for sourcing from more than one country.Create a two- to three-page memo in a Word document, providing your recommendations on the offshore supplier selection criteria and submit it to the

The company is a competitor of HP in the field of printers and it is located in NewYork.The main parts which has to outsourced are the electronic gadgets inside theprinters and the cartridge...