Management Barilla Spa (A) Case Study Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Issues Identification 4 Environmental and Root Cause Analysis 4 Fluctuating Demand: 4 Resistance to Changes: 5 Alternative and/or Options 5 Alternative #1 – Continue to promote the Just-in-time Distribution (JITD) initiative 5 Alternative #2 – Eliminate product focus sales strategies 5 Recommendations and Implementation 6 Monitor and Control 6 Executive Summary Sales representatives at the Barilla SpA
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distributors’ distribution centers represent increasing financial burdens on both Barilla and its distribution partners. The tight heat and humidity specifications in the pasta dry process makes it difficult for Barilla to quickly respond to the huge fluctuation and uncertainty of demand form distributors. As a result‚ Barilla’s customer order fill rate is suffering and so does its manufacturing and distribution operation cost. Despite the excess stocks held in the distributors’ warehouses‚ stockout happens
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[Type the company name] | Barilla Sp(A) Case Study | | | | | Barilla JITD Case Study Just in time distribution (JITD) was designed to address the fluctuating demand of products that created additional costs in production‚ scheduling‚ and transportation. Barilla was to blame for several of these underlying problems. For example‚ Barilla offered transportation discounts‚ volume discounts‚ 10-12 promotions throughout the year‚ as well as no maximum or minimum constraints on orders
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Executive Summary: Barilla was the largest pasta manufacturer in the world‚ making 35% of all pasta sold in Italy and 22% of all pasta sold in Europe. In addition‚ Barilla held a 29% share of the Italian bakery-products market. Competing in a crowded field of over 2‚000 Italian pasta manufacturers and the Italian pasta market as a whole was relatively flat‚ growing less than 1% per year. Per capita pasta consumption in Italy averaged nearly 18 kilos per year and relatively consistent throughout
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CASE STUDY BARILLA SpA (A) Report on Supply Chain Inventory Management TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3 Issue Identification 4 Issue Identification & Root Cause Analysis 5 Alternatives and options 7 Recommendations 9 Implementation 10 Monitor And Control 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Barilla SpA (Barilla)‚ is an Italian largest pasta manufacturer in the world manufacturer that
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Barilla SpA (A) Case Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Issue Identification and Root Case Analysis 4 Alternatives and Options 7 Recommendations and Implementation 8 Monitor and Control
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fluctuation? (20 points) Fluctuation of Raw Materials Pasta is produced with various types of raw material‚ including wheat and egg. If the supply of raw materials has high level of fluctuation‚ (which may be caused by weather condition or cost of raising chicken) then the production and supply of pasta will be influenced. Diverse Product Category Barilla’s products are divided into Fresh products and Dry products. The demand for these two distinct kinds of products is quite
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Case Presentation Barilla SpA Introduction Company & Industry background • World’s largest pasta producer in 1990 • Pasta Share - 35% in Italy and 22% in Europe Channels of Distribution • Products divided in 2 categories – “Fresh” and “Dry” • Fresh Products had 21 day Shelf Lives • Dry Products had Long ( 18 to 24 Months) or Medium(10 to 12 weeks) Shelf Lives • Retail Outlets – Small independent The Issue • During the late 1980s‚ Barilla suffered increasing operational inefficiencies and
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abdi DSCI 434 3/24/2011 Barilla SpA Case Study 1. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits and drawbacks of this program? One of the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve was the effects of inconsistent demand that came from Barilla’s distributors. The extreme demand variation strained Barillas manufacturing and logistics‚ and made very hard for Barilla to meet that demand. For
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0019038430Barilla SpA Rohit Agarwal NUID : 001903843 Barilla SpA (A) Introduction: Barilla was founded in 1875 when Pietro Barilla opened a small shop in Parma‚ Italy on via Vittorio Emanuele. Adjoining the shop was the small “laboratory’ Pietro used to make the pasta and bread products he sold in his store. In 1990‚ Barilla was the largest pasta manufacturer in the world‚ making 35% of all pasta sold in Italy and 22% of all pasta sold in the Europe. Barilla was organized into seven divisions: three pasta
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