Supply Chain Management Case Study: Griggs Sporting Goods

Furthermore, the first section I evaluated was sales. In 2014, Griggs Sporting Goods had only 590 stores and generated $25.7 million in revenues. After analyzing and reviewing the performance on all the stores, I recommend that the company launch new stores and reposition some existing stores. Subsequently, in 2015 the company introduced e-commerce website, remolded five stores, and repositioned three stores. This led to net sales to increase 5% to $27 million primarily driven by the increase in consolidated same store sales and the evolution of the new store network.
Moreover, the company purchased merchandise from around 1,500 vendors during fiscal year 2014. In this time-frame, I noticed that prices fluctuated for the same quantity and individual items that were ordered from the various suppliers, which in return costed the organization a lot of money. Also, inventory management metrics help measure the vendor’s inbound lead time from the date the order shipped until when goods are unloaded at one of our distribution centers. These
This program was put in place to connect with online users, improve inventory utilization, and to increase the speed of products that are shipped directly to customers. As the logistic coordinator, I enhanced the supply chain and distribution capabilities by installing an end-to-end supply chain management suite of software applications from Oracle. The software is linked to all of distribution centers to better manage and control the flow of inventory that is directly shipped to the retail stores. Also, the technological software tracks domestic and international freight and ensures that merchandise that is brought in is sorted and distributed within 48 hours. More importantly, this system accounts that no inventory sis stored at our distribution centers and it allows customers to purchase items online and pick them in store the next