EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Seven-Eleven had realized unique growth in the business sector as there was utilization of supply chain strategy of Seven-Eleven and certain performance drivers upon the balance nature business responsiveness and the awareness of certain risks involved. For Seven-Eleven to be successful‚ ECR approach will be realized that are effective for store assortments; chain replenishments and efficient promotion as well as product introduction. Seven-Eleven have found better ways of
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1. In order for a convenience store chain to be responsive‚ which mean providing customer with what they need‚ when they need it and where they need it‚ some different ways to do are: a) Have large inventory in terms of quantity‚ variety and quick replenishment in order to be able to respond quickly to customer demand Risk associated: high cost: warehouse‚ transportation high Implied Demand Uncertainty: little time to react‚ risk of inventory that cannot be sold b) Provide highly innovative
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1. A convenience store chain can improve responsiveness to this uncertainty using one of the following strategies‚ especially for fresh and fast foods: Local Capacity. The convenience store chain can provide local cooking capacity at the stores and assemble foods almost on demand. Inventory would be stored as raw material. This is seen at the U.S. fast-food restaurant franchise Subway where dinner and lunch sandwiches are assembled on demand. The main risk with this approach is that capacity
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CASE 14-2: TRIGO EXPORT CO.‚ LTD. The pricing of products for export sale is covered here‚ with logistics practices and costs having considerable influence. Question 1: Ziola’s export packaging materials consisted of at least 40% recycled contents. Should this be mentioned in the quotation given to the potential Brazilian buyer? It would not hurt in case somebody reviewing the bid happened also to be interested in environmental protection. However‚ note that they are buying tractors to use in
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Q.NO. 3: 7-ELEVEN JAPAN USES A DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. IF SEJ WAS TO USE CENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM HOW WOULD IT AFFECT ITS CURRENT SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY? EXPLAIN IN DETAIL. Seven Eleven Japan uses a decentralized distribution system. As we know that SEJ has separated its product into four categories on the basis of temperature required to store them namely: 1.) Chilled temperature item‚ 2.) Warm temperature item‚ 3.) Frozen item and‚ 4.) Room temperature item. The stores place
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Case Study: Supply Chain Revolution from Crocs Crocs’ supply chain revolution was the key to its success in the footwear industry. To discuss about it‚ let’s start with a review of the traditional model adopted by most of the companies in footwear industry. In the traditional practice‚ footwear companies showing around the world their upcoming products for the fall season in January‚ and buyers would place their orders during the shows. Orders placed would then be manufactured during the next
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Supply Chain Management Solution for Hindustan Unilever : Case Study Existing Situation With nearly 1000 products‚ HLL distributes them nationally through a network of four warehouses‚ more than 40 agents‚ 7‚500 wholesalers and a number of large institutional customers. HLL‚ in its endeavor to move from the existing push-based planning system to a pull-based system‚ wanted to build a Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution that would ensure informed decisions are made during procurement‚ manufacturing
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Subject – Supply Chain Management Semester - III Case - 1 John Deere and Complex Parts‚ Inc. On Friday‚ November 22‚ 2000‚ Blake Roberts‚ Hayley Marie‚ Stan Ealdns‚ and John Pearson‚ members of one of John Deere’s supplier evaluation teams‚ were discussing the performance of Complex Parts. It had provided questionable service to John Deere’s Moline unit over the past year‚ and they were wondering if this merited giving Complex Parts’ business to a different supplier. They needed
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at the Sunny Hotel 1. What makes the procurement of services different from that of the purchase of goods and materials? The basic difference between the purchase of services and goods is that‚ the services requires more professional knowledge and experience to evaluate its performance. The goods has a fixed standard which can be measured. Services as a people’s business is more complicated to analyze‚ particularly for supply department. Furthermore‚ for evaluating and improving the final purpose
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Test Questions Sessions 1-9 * What is a supply chain? The interconnected businesses that convert raw materials into consumer products via the transfer of materials‚ information and cash. * Draw a hypothetical milk supply chain * What is supply chain management? The management of upstream and downstream suppliers working together to create high value products for consumers as efficiently as possible to the benefit of the whole supply chain. It operates on three different levels‚ Strategic
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