BARILLA SPA (A) BUSINESS CASE AS PRESENTED BY GIORGIO MAGGIALI TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary P2 Issue Identification P3 Root Cause Analysis P4-6 Alternatives and Options P7-9 Recommendations P10-11 Implementation P12-13 Monitor and Control P14 Exhibit P15 Executive Summary Barilla SpA (A) continues to be a market leader in pasta production. We are currently experiencing a growing burden of demand fluctuations for our dry pasta products putting extreme demand
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can not be ignored. High inventory levels in Barilla’s Central Distribution Centers (CDCs) and in its 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
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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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[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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Barilla SpA is an Italian pasta manufacturer comprised of 7 divisions: 3 pasta‚ bakery‚ bread‚ catering‚ and international. By 1990‚ Barilla had become the largest pasta manufacturer in the world. The company ships its pasta to one of two central distribution centers (CDC) where it is bought by individual supermarket distributors called "grande distribuzione" (GD for larger supermarkets) and "distribuzione organizzata" (DO for smaller‚ independent supermarkets). During the late 1980s‚ the distributors
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Barilla SpA (A) Christel Bou Farhat Notre Dame University 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? In your answers‚ consider the Barilla and distributors points of view (400-500 words). * Barilla’s Supply Chain suffered from the bullwhip effect that was mostly caused by the demand fluctuations and damaging the company’s manufacturing and distribution system. This fluctuating
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Executive Summary The Italian Pasta Manufacturer‚ Barilla SpA‚ is experiencing inefficiencies and increases in cost due to variability in demand from its distributors. Giorgio Magialli‚ the Director of Logistics‚ wants to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system to gain more control. The JITD system was originally proposed by Barilla’s former Director of Logistics‚ Brando Vitali. The new system is untraditional and is being rejected by both distributors and Barilla’s internal departments
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Barilla was first founded in 1875 by Pietro Barilla in Parma‚ Italy. Pietro’s son led Barilla through momentous period of growth and in 1940s‚ he passed Barilla to his own sons namely Pietro and Gianni. As time passed by‚ Barilla evolved from its modest beginnings into a large‚ vertically integrated corporation with factories spread throughout Italy. The expansion of existing businesses both in Italy and other European countries as well as the acquisition of new and related businesses had enabled
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seen in Exhibit 12? What are the underlying drivers of the fluctuation we see in this exhibit? Your analysis should consider full range of implications to the entire channel‚ and not just Barilla. Per exhibit 12 the impact of order fluctuations are as follows: - Creates a bullwhip effect at Barilla. - Resource and material planning becomes cumbersome and inefficient. - Might increase the lead time because of the bullwhip effect. - Reduces overall operational
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Barilla SpA Case Study Define the Problem: Describe the type of case and what problem(s) or issue(s) should be the focus for your analysis. Type: Supply Chain Problems/Issues: - Extreme demand fluctuations – week-to-week variation in distributors order pattern‚ strained Barilla’s manufacturing and logistics operations: high inventory‚ stock out‚ low fill rate to customers. - Pressures to manufacturing in terms of production lead-time and availability of the product - High inventory cost
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