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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Case Barilla SpA (A) Discussion Question 1. Answer these questions about the Barilla case study; a. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits of this program? The main underlying cause of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve is the effect of fluctuating demand which can be divided the root causes as per below. * Transportation Discounts * Volume Discounts * Promotional Activities
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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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farther one moves upstream‚ the greater the volatility in demand. This demand fluctuation can be attributed to a number of factors. One of the main factors that affected the demand volatility is Barilla’s trade promotion strategy‚ which includes price‚ transportation‚ and volume discounts. Barilla would divide the year into 10 to 12 canvass periods to where certain promotional items would be sold at a discount. Barilla would also pay for the transportation costs to its distributors and would offer incentives
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Supply Chain Management Assignment 3: Supply Chain Coordination Describe Barilla’s manufacturing and distribution operations. Manufacturing: Barilla has 25 plants‚ including large flour mills‚ pasta plants‚ and fresh bread‚ as well as plants producing specialty products. Raw materials‚ in the manufacturing process‚ were transformed to packaged pasta on fully-automated 120 meter long production lines. The plants were specialized by the type of pasta they would produce‚ with the primary distinction
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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 demand projections and workload on its manufacturing and logistics systems. The core problem addressed in this case is – “How to effectively implement
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