College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment-2
MGT425-Spreadsheet Decision Modeling
Deadline: End of Week 11 @ 23:59 (12/11/2022)
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Course Name: Spreadsheet Decision Modeling |
Student’s Name: |
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Course Code: MGT425 |
Student’s ID Number: |
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Semester: 1 |
CRN: 14868 |
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Academic Year: First Term- 2022-2023 (1444 H) |
For Instructor’s Use only
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Instructor’s Name: Dr. Salem Alanizan |
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Students’ Grade: Marks Obtained/Out of 15 |
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low |
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
· The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (
WORD format only) via allocated folder.
· Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
· Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
· Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
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Late submission will NOT be accepted.
· Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
· All answered must be typed using
Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
· Submissions
without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Course Learning Outcomes-Covered
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Aligned (PLOs) |
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) |
Question |
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MGT.K.1 (1.1) |
Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems. |
Question- 2. |
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MGT.K.3 (1.2) |
Explain simple decision models and management science ideas that provide powerful and (often surprising) qualitative insight about large spectrum of managerial problems. |
Question- 1, 3 |
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MGT.S.1 (2.1) |
Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems. |
Question-4 |
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MGT.V.1 (3.1) |
Build an understanding of the kind of problems that is tackled using Spreadsheet Modeling and decision analysis. |
Question-5 |
Assignment Instructions:
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Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
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On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
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From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
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In the Search Bar of EBSCO find the following article:
Title
: A Rough Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Supplier Selection under Vague Environment: A Case Study.
Author
: Huiyun Lu , Shaojun Jiang , Wenyan Song, Xinguo Ming
Date: 26 July 2018
Assignment Questions: (Marks 15)
Read the above case study and answer the following Questions
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Question 1: Explain the decision-making approach discussed in this case study (250-300 words) (3-Marks).
Question 2: Why supplier selection is a typical multi-criteria decision-making process involving subjectivity and vagueness? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).
Question 3: Discuss the Sustainable supplier selection that is required for manufacturing companies. (250-300 words) (3-Marks).
Question 4: Why Supplier selection decisions are important for most of the manufacturing firms? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).
Question 5: What is your opinion about this study and how it is connected to course and beneficial for you? (250-300 words) (3-Marks).
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