1.6 The Supply Chain
Procurement, logistics and stock control, supply-chain differences by product and scale, and green and circular economy models.
How to study WJEC GCSE Business
Learn the concept, apply it to the named business and stakeholder, use qualitative or quantitative evidence, and make a context-limited judgement.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Procurement obtains inputs, logistics moves and stores them, and stock control balances availability against holding risk and cost.
Exam cue: Identify the WJEC unit, business context, stakeholder and command word before selecting theory or evidence.
Concept 2
Effective supply chains vary with goods, services, scale, lead time, quality needs and stakeholder expectations.
Exam cue: Identify the exact supply-chain stage, explain the operational consequence and include the effect on at least one stakeholder.
Concept 3
Green and circular approaches reduce resource extraction, waste and environmental harm through reuse, repair, recovery and regeneration.
Exam cue: Trace the decision through a business consequence, use qualitative or quantitative evidence and finish with a context-limited judgement.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating procurement, logistics and stock control as synonyms or equating recycling alone with a circular economy.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Importing the legacy WJEC two-exam structure, the Eduqas route or an England 9-1 grading convention.
Guardrail: Use qualification code 3160QS or 3160CS and the four-unit untiered structure; do not import the legacy WJEC or Eduqas route.
Listing generic advantages and disadvantages without applying them to the named Welsh, UK or global business context.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Memory anchors
Procurement
Obtaining the goods, services or inputs a business needs.
Logistics
Planning and managing movement and storage through the supply chain.
Stock control
Managing inventory levels to meet demand while controlling cost and risk.
Supply chain
The linked activities and organisations moving inputs to final customers.
Green economy
Economic activity designed to improve wellbeing while reducing environmental risk.
Circular economy
Keeping resources in use through reduction, reuse, repair, recovery and recycling.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A restaurant compares fish suppliers for price, quality and delivery reliability. Which supply-chain activity is this?
A furniture maker plans how timber travels from a sawmill to its workshop and then to customers. Which activity is central?
Answer all questions to submit.
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