⦁ 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. ⦁ 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 Aligned (PLOs) Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) Question MGT.K.1 (1.1) Find some structured ways of dealing with complex managerial decision problems. Question- 2. 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 MGT.S.1 (2.1) Demonstrate the tools for deciding when and which decision models to use for specific problems. Question-4 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: ⦁ Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website ⦁ On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases” ⦁ From the list find and click on EBSCO database. ⦁ 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: 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). Answers: 1 2 3 4 5