SUMMARY Barilla SpA‚ an Italian manufacturer and world’s largest pasta producer that sells to its retailers largely through third-party distributors‚ experienced widely fluctuating demand patterns from its distributors during the late 1980s and Barilla suffered increasing operational inefficiencies and cost penalties. Brando Vitali‚ Barilla’s ex-Director of Logistics‚ proposed a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system to counter this demand variation. This system required the distributors to share
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Barilla SpA (A) Case Study: Just-in-Time for Delays The Barilla SpA (Society of Stockholders) was established in 1875. Barilla is considered the largest pasta producer in the world. The company was successful through the years but debt would overwhelm the company and require it to be sold in 1971; however‚ in eight short years the company would be sold back. Giorgio Maggiali‚ the director of logistics‚ struggled to make a change that he considered would take the company to the next level. The Just-in-time-distribution
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to implement at Barilla. It was in response to the significant fluctuations in sales demand that Barilla was experiencing from their distribution centers. Exhibit 12 in the case shows how volatile the ordering could be. It looks very unpredictable using their current method of distribution‚ which is causing excess inventory and stockouts. By nature‚ their pasta products experience waves of high and low demand. Seasonal and promotional fluctuation was making it hard for Barilla to correctly forecast
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volatility is Barilla’s trade promotion strategy‚ which includes price‚ transportation‚ and volume discounts. Barilla would divide the year into 10 to 12 canvass periods to where certain promotional items would be sold at a discount. Barilla would also pay for the transportation costs to its distributors and would offer incentives for distributors to order in full truck-load quantities. Since Barilla did not have any minimum or maximum order quantities in place for its distributors‚ this made it much more
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Maggiali’s frustration with the fluctuations imposed on the company’s manufacturing and distribution system. He is the director of logistics at Barilla who has been working on the concept started Brando Vitali who was his predecessor. This was the Just-In-Time-Distribution (JITD) concept as an extension of the Just-In-Time Manufacturing concept developed at Toyota. This basically toyed with the idea of delivering its products to its distributors as per Barilla’s customer demand projections and workload
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Case Barilla SpA (A) Discussion Question 1. Answer these questions about the Barilla case study; a. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits of this program? The main underlying cause of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve is the effect of fluctuating demand which can be divided the root causes as per below. * Transportation Discounts * Volume Discounts * Promotional Activities
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Toyota From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Toyota (disambiguation). Toyota Motor Corporation Native name トヨタ自動車株式会社 Romanized name Toyota Jidosha KK Type Kabushiki gaisha (JPN) Public (US) Traded as TYO: 7203 LSE: TYT NYSE: TM Industry Automotive Founded August 28‚ 1937 Founder(s) Kiichiro Toyoda Headquarters Toyota‚ Aichi‚ Japan Area served Worldwide Key people Fujio Cho (Chairman) Akio Toyoda (President and CEO) Products Automobiles‚ commercial vehicles
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Word count – excluding executive summary and headings – 2448 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Toyota Motor Corporation 3 Globalisation and Toyota 4 Toyota Lanka 6 Analysing the Environment 7 PESTLE Analysis 8 SWOT analysis 9 The Tax Effect 11 Government Imposed Issues 13 Response of Toyota Lanka 14 Conclusion & Recommendations 15 Table of Figures 16 References 17 Executive Summary Sri Lanka’s automobile industry is a very volatile market space where the countries’ political
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The case of Toyota recall By Daniel Opoku Abstract Purpose: the main purpose of this study is to find out about the recalls of Toyota vehicles which lead to the death of some innocent lives. The recall was due to unintended acceleration. Toyota ultimately recalled millions of its cars for floor mat issues‚ brake problems and "sticky" gas pedals. Methodology: Data was collected online‚ by the help of some selected search engines. Information was collected from Toyota’s national website
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Porter’s Models of Toyota UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE La Verne‚ California Bus 510 Management of Information Technology Professor Nicole Lytle Yuxi Deng Jialin Dong Binfeng Chen Ao Wang 11/16/2012 Table of Contents Summary of Porter’s Models Article. 3 Porter ’s Five Forces Model Analysis 4 Bargaining Power of Buyers 4 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 6 Threat of Substitute Products 7 Threat of New Entrants 7 Rivalry among Existing Competitors 8 The Three Generic Strategies
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