FEEDBACK ON DISTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTION ESSAYS

Everyone has individual feedback on both these essays on their blogs, however here are few general points:

• many seem to have a genuine engagement with the tasks and personal views are apparent.
• some great research and inclusion on statistics/examples.
• a few brilliant weblinks to interesting articles.
• Understanding of the different areas is becoming more evident - keep it up.

• Quite a few have been asked to re do 1 of the tasks. While the info provided is not inaccurate, it is not about the set task eg several 'production' essays don't mention production at all. All must be aware of sticking to the task set as soon of you have made massive amounts of extra work for yourself. Because this is such a massive industry and there is so much info, it's easy to drift but if this happens in the exam you will gain little marks.
• Looking at each other's blogs for help occasionally is fine, however I think this might have caused so many to go off task in the production task - keep referring to the wording of the task on the class blog to keep you on track.
• Pick out key info both in these tasks and once we look at our specific case studies - copying and pasting massive pieces of info won't really aid your understanding and will certainly be very hard to learn for the exam.