This guide is for BUSI 615 Week 1 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1, start to submission. The first team project, beginning your firm's Excel ERP model with the week's MRP topics.
BUSI 615 is Logistics, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's MBA. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as BUSI615; it is the same course.
| Course | BUSI 615 Logistics |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 1 |
| Points | 75 points |
| Length | Not set in the guide; follow the course content instructions |
| Sources | The custom text and your firm's data |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Team Excel workbook as instructed |
What BUSI 615 Week 1 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 asks for
Each week your team completes an Integrated Learning Project following the detailed instructions in the course content; together they build toward the final Excel ERP model. Project 1 is due in Module/Week 1 with the chapters on MRP and inventory in manufacturing. Worth 75 points.
Where it fits in BUSI 615
In the published schedule, Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 is one of 13 graded written assignments in BUSI 615. It follows Week 1 Discussion Board 1: Manufacturing Resource Planning and comes before Week 2 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 2. The same week also has Discussion Board 1: Manufacturing Resource Planning, so plan the week's writing together.
How BUSI 615 Week 1 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 is graded
Liberty grades Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 75 points in the published guide. That is about 7% of the course's 1,010 points. Read the rubric first. Each row is a criterion, and the wording of the highest column is the closest thing you have to a model answer.
Course grades in BUSI 615 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 940 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Each course module/week (except Module/Week 1) begins on Saturday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Friday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The BUSI 615 Week 1 method, step by step
See where this piece sits in the project
Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 is one stage of a larger project. Read the full project description first so this stage feeds the final submission instead of standing alone.
Choose a subject you can research
Pick a real organization, product or setting with enough public information to support every stage. A subject that runs out of data halfway through is hard to recover.
Answer the questions this stage asks
Use the stage questions as headings. Each answer should be about your subject, supported by facts about it.
Apply the course model
Use the framework from Logistics that this stage is built on, named and applied step by step to your subject.
Support with sources
Back the analysis with credible sources (The custom text and your firm's data): company filings, industry data, peer-reviewed research.
Format, length and teamwork
Stay within Not set in the guide; follow the course content instructions and format in current APA. If the stage is a group deliverable, agree on who writes which section early and edit for one voice at the end.
Set up the workbook with one tab per planning module and an assumptions tab (lead times, lot sizes, safety stock), and link formulas to it. Keep cells color-coded for inputs and formulas so teammates can extend the model.
A structure for BUSI 615 Week 1 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,000 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Firm and product setup | The firm, products and data. | ~300 words |
| Week's worksheet | The required calculations. | ~500 words |
| Documentation | Assumptions and notes. | ~200 words |
A topic angle that works
The first week typically sets up the model: the chosen firm, its main product and the product structure (bill of materials) that MRP will use.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
Firm: a regional maker of office chairs. End item: the Model 200 task chair. Bill of materials: one seat assembly (seat pan, cushion, fabric), one base (five casters, base frame), one gas cylinder and one backrest. Lead times: casters two weeks, gas cylinders three weeks, fabric one week. The assumptions tab holds all lead times and lot sizes so later worksheets link to them.
- A real product.
- A BOM.
- Linked assumptions.
Mistakes that cost points on BUSI 615 Week 1
- Typed numbers instead of links.
- No assumptions tab.
- A firm with no physical product.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: Not set in the guide; follow the course content instructions
- Sources: The custom text and your firm's data
- Every question in this stage's instructions answered
- Consistent with the subject chosen in earlier stages
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
Are BUSI 615 weekly projects team assignments?
Yes. The weekly Integrated Learning Projects are completed as a team.
How many points is BUSI 615 Week 1 Weekly Integrated Learning Project 1 worth?
75 points in Liberty's published course guide for BUSI 615, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 7% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is BUSI 615 Week 1 the same in every section of BUSI 615?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for BUSI 615. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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