1a. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits of this program? There is a large variability in demand. (GD’s and DO’s order once a week‚ in varying quantities‚ causing a bullwhip effect). This is strange‚ as the total market is relatively flat and nearly completely saturated. Because pasta is so common in Italy‚ people usually stick with their choice of brand‚ which is why demand should be stable for Barilla’s products. Therefore
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Case Memo – Barilla SpA Student #: 68979111 Giorgio Maggiali‚ as director of Logistics for Barilla SpA‚ was acutely aware of the growing burden that demand fluctuations imposed on the company’s manufacturing and distribution system. In order to address this issue‚ he proposed the innovative idea of Just-‐in-‐Time
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Subject: Dell’s Value Chain Case 1. How has Dell used its direct sales and build-to-order model to develop an exceptional supply chain? Dell encourages suppliers to focus on their individual technological capabilities to sustain leadership in their components. Suppliers are also pressed to drive down lead times‚ lot sizes‚ and inventories. Dell constructs special Web pages for suppliers to plan based on actual end customer demand. On the distribution side‚ Dell uses direct sales‚ primarily
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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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Page |1 LG Operations strategy Final Report Introduction Founded in 1947 as Lucky Chemical Industrial Corporation‚ they established their electronics arm‚ called GoldStar in 1958. It did a sizeable business in manufacturing radio sets and went on to make one of the first and highly selling color TVs in Asia. Domestic competition led them to restructure their operations in early 90s‚ merging the two major business heads under a new name – LG Electronics. In 2006‚ they launched the now popular “Blue
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Barilla SPA Operations & supply chain management Case study 2012 1 Is there any evidence that Barilla faces the bullwhip effect? If so‚ what causes of the bullwhip effect are present? Barilla has two products lines‚ “dry products representing 75% of sales” and “fresh products representing 25% of sales”. Products are shipped from plants to one of the two central distribution centers (CDCs). Each CDC held about a month’s worth of dry product inventory. There are three types
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largest pasta producer‚ are seeing customers changing due to long re-order lead-time and frequent stock-outs. Even with a high inventory levels‚ Barilla is still not able to cope with the fluctuating demand. The fluctuation in demand is seen as the bullwhip effect that is caused by sales strategies that have been put into place that is very product focused. This causes excessive demand from week to week depending on the product that the promotion or incentive is been aimed towards. There is also a
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Assignment 3: Critique e-business operations from each of the following four perspectives: on-line payments‚ customer satisfaction‚ supply chain management‚ and advertising products/and services On-line shopping has continued to spike as more and more people turn to the convenience of the internet. Although it is convenient to shop from the privacy of your home‚ the perspective of on-line payment does present some challenges. Both the customer and the vendor are concerned about
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is to implement the Just-in-Time Delivery system. JITD will resolve the increasing operational inefficiencies and cost penalties that have resulted from large week-to-week variations in Barilla’s distributors order patterns. In order to reduce the Bullwhip effect being experienced by Barilla‚ their supply chain would have to be Centralized. This solution allows Barilla to see end customer demand and eliminate costs involved with inventory‚ manufacturing‚ and transportation. JITD would allow Barilla
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Zara’s Secret to Success In comparison to its competitors‚ Zara’s supply chain is quite unconventional. Instead of focusing on competitive product prices and advertising Zara has developed a super integrated supply chain paralleled by few (1). This supply chain allows it to rapidly respond to market demand and have extensive control over its design and production process (1). Inditex‚ the clothing company that owns Zara is extremely vertically integrated. It is comprised of over 100 design‚ manufacturing
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