without marketing with others which is much more important to firms. This report tends to evaluate how Apple-one of the most innovative and creative companies builds marketing relationships with its target customers through brand building. What is more‚ this report attaches much importance to customer profile which reveals some basic information about customers. This report is organized as follows. The first section is the introduction. The second part shows how Apple’s customer profile affects its brand
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Executive Summary My decision for this case is to implement the Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system that was proposed by his predecessor Brando Vitali. This system is entirely different from the existing set up and is being opposed by both the distributors and Barilla’s Sales and Marketing Department. Barilla Spa‚ an Italian pasta manufacturer‚ is experiencing amplified levels of inefficiencies and rising costs due to variability in demand from its distributors. In order to bring things back
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Executive Summary Barilla SpA‚ an Italian pasta manufacturer‚ is experiencing greater levels of inefficiencies and rising costs due to variability in demand from its distributors. In order to restore things to order and to improve margins‚ Giorgio Magialli‚ the Director of Logistics at Barilla wants to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system that was proposed by his predecessor Brando Vitali. This system is completely different from the existing setup and is being opposed by both the
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Executive Summary Barilla‚ the leading pasta manufacturer in Italy‚ faces increasing problems related to demand fluctuation. Their distributors also suffer from high inventory holding costs and low service levels on the other hand. This report explains‚ why the company and their distributors are troubled with this situation and how Barilla intends to solve it. The problem Barilla experiences is called the “Bullwhip Effect”‚ i.e. that demand variability increases when moving up the supply chain
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domestically over 2000 pasta manufacturers in Italy. Declining margins. * Pasta market is extremely price sensitive. * Barilla is the market leader in Italy and is the industry’s largest manufacturer. * Supply chain represents approximately 55-58 calendar DOH of dry goods (30 in the CDC‚ 14 at the Distributor‚ 11-14 at the Supermarket or Independent Shops) Competitive Strategy * Barilla is the largest pasta manufacturer in the world (35% of market in Italy and 22% of market in Europe) * Also 29% of
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Target Corporation Arthur S. Camua Jr. University of Phoenix Management MGT/521 Professor Mr. Jeffrey Gordon December 13‚ 2012 Target Corporation Target Corporation is one of America’s biggest corporations according to Fortune 500. Target is a retailer that operates general merchandise and food discount stores. Being one of the biggest and one of the leading retailers in the America‚ Target enjoys a strong market position to promote market opportunities and adds to their bargaining power
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Executive Summary My decision is to implement Just in time distribution (JITD) to Barilla Distributors to reduce distribution costs‚ inventory levels and manufacturing costs. This would enable Barilla to improve relationships with their distributors and provide them with more objective data so that they can improve their own planning procedures. Barilla Operations will have more control on what is being shipped out so that shipments can be planned to optimize full loads. Manufacturing costs can
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ACADEMIA BARILLA- HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE STUDIES Parma‚ Italy - January 31‚ 2007 - Harvard Business School has selected Academia Barilla for an in-depth look into its business in the prestigious annals of Harvard Business School’s business case studies. Less than three years after its founding‚ Academia Barilla is one of the few Italian companies to ever get chronicled by Harvard. The Harvard Business School business case study for Academia Barilla recounts the last 10 years of the development
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Ann Simon Target: From “Expect More” to “Pay Less” The macroenvironmental factors that affected Target’s performance during the period were connected to the demographic‚ economic‚ natural‚ technological‚ political‚ and cultural. The change in demographic is related to the economy because when there is an unemployment it will create households income to drop while the households expenses increases. Since Wal-Mart is all about low price and Target is all about style and brand‚ Target thought customers
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Barilla SpA (A) Case Study Analysis 2 Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits and drawback of this program? Brando Vitali‚ Barilla’s director of logistics‚ proposed the idea of Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) in the 1980’s as an alternative to Barilla’s traditional practice of delivering products to their distributors (Hammond‚ 1). Instead of distributing Barilla’s products based on the orders the distributors
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