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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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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CASE STUDY BARILLA SpA (A) Report on Supply Chain Inventory Management TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3 Issue Identification 4 Issue Identification & Root Cause Analysis 5 Alternatives and options 7 Recommendations 9 Implementation 10 Monitor And Control 11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Barilla SpA (Barilla)‚ is an Italian largest pasta manufacturer in the world manufacturer that
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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 distribution operation
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Silver is a very ductile and malleable metal used for thousands of years utensils‚ for trade‚ and as the basis for many monetary systems. Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold. In Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe‚ it was often more valuable than gold. Silver is currently about 1/50th the price of gold by mass‚ and 70 times more valuable than copper. Silver did once trade at 1/6th to 1/12th the price of gold‚ however‚ the discovery of great silver deposits in the
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demand‚ which could in practice differ considerably from actual demand‚ leading to unnecessary costs or unsatisfactory customer service. In many organizations‚ capacity planning and control is concerned largely with coping with seasonal demand fluctuations. Almost all products and services have some demand seasonality and some also have supply seasonality‚ usually where the inputs are seasonal
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Why Gold Prices Fluctuate? Posted on May 25‚ 2010 by Manish — 2 Comments ↓ This is the first post in the learner’s series. A simple question that we will answer through this post is‚ “Why do gold prices fluctuate?”. While I am writing this article‚ the Gold price stands at $1238 per ounce (1 ounce = 28.35 grams). This fluctuate everyday‚ and the gold prices have gone significantly up in the past few months. Like all other investments and commodities‚ gold prices also fluctuate everyday and are
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Economics PAT “Analyse the causes and effects of fluctuations in Australia’s external stability”. Achieving external stability is an important objective of economic policy‚ achieving this stability ensures that imbalances in Australia’s economic relationships with other economies do not hinder achieving domestic economic policy goals such as lower rate of unemployment‚ higher rate of growth and lower inflation. There are three main factors that effect external stability the deficit on the current
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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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Management Barilla Spa (A) Case Study Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Issues Identification 4 Environmental and Root Cause Analysis 4 Fluctuating Demand: 4 Resistance to Changes: 5 Alternative and/or Options 5 Alternative #1 – Continue to promote the Just-in-time Distribution (JITD) initiative 5 Alternative #2 – Eliminate product focus sales strategies 5 Recommendations and Implementation 6 Monitor and Control 6 Executive Summary Sales representatives at the Barilla SpA
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