The case begins with Giorgio 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
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ASSIGNMENT 2: BARILLA SPA INTRODUCTION Barilla SpA (Barilla)‚ is an Italian manufacturer that sells pasta to retailers largely through third-party distributors. Barilla has been experiencing widely fluctuating demand patterns from these distributors. Such unpredictable patterns are problematic because a specific sequence of pasta production is used that minimizes the incremental changes in kiln temperature in order to keep the changeover costs low and the product quality high. This process makes
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Global Supply Chain Management Barilla SpA Case Discussion Questions 1-a The underlying causes of difficulty that the JITD program was created to solve were stock outs and high levels of inventory. These were both caused by demand uncertainty. There were several inefficiencies due to demand uncertainty; there were long lead times and it was costly for Barilla to try and quickly produce their products. They had poor forecasts due a poor flow of information which led to a bullwhip effect
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BARILLA SpA CASE ANAYLSIS XUELAI (ANDY) HU Contents Executive Summary 2 Issue Identification 3 Environmental and Root Cause Analysis 4 Alternatives or Options 6 Recommendations and Implementation 6 Monitor and Control 8 Executive Summary Barilla SpA‚ a large vertical integrated corporation that makes pasta and bread products is experiencing rising costs due to extreme variability in demand from its distributors. In order to improve company’s sale margins‚ Giorgio Magialli
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Barilla SpA is suffering from a problem of their own making - their distribution system is overly complex. That complexity is causing them to be unable to respond to their widely varying customer demand. Their customers‚ distributors‚ are forced to hold high inventories while simultaneously enduring stockouts on average of 7%‚ all because Barilla can’t rationalize their own processes to handle variability in demand. Barilla’s manufacturing process is long and inflexible. Given the high variability
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BARILLA SpA (A) Table of Contents Part One: Executive Summary 3 Part Two: Immediate Issue 4 Part Three: Systemic Issues 4 Part Four: Qualitative Analysis 5 Part Five: Alternatives 6 Part Six: Recommendation 8 Part Seven: Recommendations Implementation Plan 9 Part Eight: Monitor and Control 10 Part One: Executive Summary In order to respond to extreme demand variability and incidents of high stock out rates Barilla is currently applying pressure to both its’ manufacturing and logistics
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Barilla SpA I think the main causes for large fluctuations in orders observed at the Pedrignano CDC are too frequent trade promotions‚ volume discounts‚ and distributors’ use of periodic review inventory systems. Collectively‚ Barilla experienced the bullwhip effect in its distribution network. With the use of trade promotions to push product into the grocery distribution network‚ Barilla distributors could buy as much product as desired to meet current and future needs. Without a ceiling in order
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Case study Nicola Marcheselli Head of Cash Management Barilla SpA‚ the multinational pasta maker‚ has a long-standing tradition – founded in 1877 by Pietro Barilla in Parma‚ Italy‚ it remains privately held by the fourth generation of Barilla family. The company’s portfolio includes Barilla‚ Mulino Bianco‚ Pavesi‚ Voiello‚ Alixir in Italy‚ as well as the Wasabröd (Sweden)‚ Misko (Greece)‚ Filiz (Turkey)‚ Yemina and Vesta (Mexico) trademarks abroad. The consolidated revenue of the Barilla
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Executive Summary As per our conversation last week I would like to revisit the idea originally brought to life by Brando Vitali before he was promoted to head one of our company’s new divisions overseas. In order to address the issue which will be a direct result of introduction of JIT Distribution system‚ I would like to present the issues and my recommendations to you before our meeting with Marconi’s executives to discuss JITD proposal. As the meeting is scheduled for the of November I would
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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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