Barilla Spa We need to regroup now and decide where to go with JITD. Is this type of program feasible in our environment? If so‚ what kind of customers should we target? And how do we convince them to sign up? Against Vitali’s proposal‚ “Just-in-Time Di stribution‚” met with significant resistance within Barilla. The sales and marketing organizations were particularly vocal in their opposition to the plan. A number of sales representatives felt that their responsibilities would be diminished if
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Executive Summary My decision is to implement Just in time distribution (JITD) to Barilla Distributors to reduce distribution costs‚ inventory levels and manufacturing costs. This would enable Barilla to improve relationships with their distributors and provide them with more objective data so that they can improve their own planning procedures. Barilla Operations will have more control on what is being shipped out so that shipments can be planned to optimize full loads. Manufacturing costs can
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BARILLA SpA (A) Table of Contents Part One: Executive Summary 3 Part Two: Immediate Issue 4 Part Three: Systemic Issues 4 Part Four: Qualitative Analysis 5 Part Five: Alternatives 6 Part Six: Recommendation 8 Part Seven: Recommendations Implementation Plan 9 Part Eight: Monitor and Control 10 Part One: Executive Summary In order to respond to extreme demand variability and incidents of high stock out rates Barilla is currently applying pressure to both its’ manufacturing and logistics
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Barilla Spa (A) Case Questions 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? 2. What conflicts or barriers internal to Barilla doe the JITD program create? What causes these conflicts? As Giorgio Maggiali‚ how would you deal with these? 3. Why are Barilla’s customers so resistant to the JITD idea? How might Maggiali be more successful in persuading customer to at least try
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Management Barilla SpA‚ the multinational pasta maker‚ has a long-standing tradition – founded in 1877 by Pietro Barilla in Parma‚ Italy‚ it remains privately held by the fourth generation of Barilla family. The company’s portfolio includes Barilla‚ Mulino Bianco‚ Pavesi‚ Voiello‚ Alixir in Italy‚ as well as the Wasabröd (Sweden)‚ Misko (Greece)‚ Filiz (Turkey)‚ Yemina and Vesta (Mexico) trademarks abroad. The consolidated revenue of the Barilla Group – which includes Barilla and Lieken – increased
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Barilla SpA I think the main causes for large fluctuations in orders observed at the Pedrignano CDC are too frequent trade promotions‚ volume discounts‚ and distributors’ use of periodic review inventory systems. Collectively‚ Barilla experienced the bullwhip effect in its distribution network. With the use of trade promotions to push product into the grocery distribution network‚ Barilla distributors could buy as much product as desired to meet current and future needs. Without a ceiling in order
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Global Supply Chain Management Barilla SpA Case Discussion Questions 1-a The underlying causes of difficulty that the JITD program was created to solve were stock outs and high levels of inventory. These were both caused by demand uncertainty. There were several inefficiencies due to demand uncertainty; there were long lead times and it was costly for Barilla to try and quickly produce their products. They had poor forecasts due a poor flow of information which led to a bullwhip effect
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Homework 2 Barilla Case Reading 1.Is there any evidence that Barilla faces the bullwhip effect? If so‚ what causes of the bullwhip effect are present? Yes‚ there are some evidences that Barilla is facing the bullwhip effect. The following causes are presented as below. 1) Demanding forecast. Since safety stock‚ as well as the base-stock level‚ strongly depends on these estimates‚ the user is forced to change order quantities‚ thus increasing variability. Lead-time. It is easy to see
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Barilla Case Study There are some issues currently faced by Barilla. One is that demand fluctuates extremely because distributors order weekly and it is hard to predict the demand on a weekly basis. Another is that there is a significant pressure to manufacture because lead-time and perishability of product vary so much. It’s very hard to speed up the process because each type of pasta requires specific heat and humidity level to dry them properly. In addition‚ Barilla has to make both dry
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ASSIGNMENT 2: BARILLA SPA INTRODUCTION Barilla SpA (Barilla)‚ is an Italian manufacturer that sells pasta to retailers largely through third-party distributors. Barilla has been experiencing widely fluctuating demand patterns from these distributors. Such unpredictable patterns are problematic because a specific sequence of pasta production is used that minimizes the incremental changes in kiln temperature in order to keep the changeover costs low and the product quality high. This process makes
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