CASE STUDY December 2002 Procter & Gamble: Building A Smarter Supply Chain Issue/Solution To remain profitable‚ consumer products manufacturers must find ways to optimize the performance of their supply chains. They need to support marketing promotions better and avoid frustrating consumers with out-of-stock situations in the store. Situation • Procter & Gamble realized it needed a “consumer-driven supply network” to stay ahead in the consumer packaged goods industry. Retailing’s “first
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DATA ANALYSIS Population Size = 9 Samples from Unilever = 5 Sample from Procter & Gamble = 4 SAMPLE ANALYSIS QUESTION NO. AGREE AGREE DISAGREE DISAGREE NEUTRAL NEUTRAL UNILEVER P & G UNILEVER P & G UNILEVER P & G 1 5 5 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 0 0 0 2 3 5 5 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 0 0 0 0 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 6 5 1 0 1 0 2 7 5 5 0 0 0 0 8 5 2 0 0 0 2 9 5 5 0 0 0 0 10 5 1 0 1 0 2 QUES. NO. 15 16 17 18 19 HIGH HIGH LOW LOW MODERATE MODERATE N/A N/A UNILEVER P & G UNILEVER P & G UNILEVER P & G UNILEVER P & G 5 3 0 0 0
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Procter & Gamble and Disposable Diapers Introduction Post‚ Lawrence & Weber (2002‚ p.15) argue that business do not operate in a social or political vacuum. In fact most companies operate in a swirl of social‚ economic‚ technological and political changes that produces both opportunities. Coronado (2007) states that business is in fact part of society. Coronado further explains that business is an institution of society that affects and is affected by governments and other social actors. Therefore
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PROCTER & GAMBLE GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES: A CASE STUDY A Time to Make a Change at P&G Some of the signs and signals experienced by an organization which indicates that it is time to make a change are: experiencing rapid growth or a decline in growth‚ a decline in productivity‚ a decline in resources‚ stakeholder pressures on management‚ environmental crises‚ sociopolitical influences on the organization‚ environmental turbulence and changes to customer expectations and behavior. The highly
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Someone once said‚ “The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams’ come true.” Today I want to talk about making your dreams come true. I want to talk about five keys that will help turn your dreams into reality. 1. Preparation “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ~Benjamin Disraeli Success loves preparation. If the perfect opportunity presented itself today‚ would you be ready? It’s
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Completion of Chapter 1 Proctor and Gamble – Focus on repeat customers * Practical satisfaction of meeting customer requirements. * Review of modern quality – Skilled craftsman on 1 to 1 basis. Blacksmith.. one on one negotiation face to face relations with customers. * Industrial Revolution – Henry Ford – Mass production. Quality once a post production review. Reactive approach. * Bell System Statistical – Shurart. * WWII Post War l 40’sand 50’s- Beming and Juran
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1) Keys to success. Explain supply chain of the company and draw the supply map. Pepsi has go to market strategy‚ so company tries to cut the costs by bringing the product directly to the market they try to have less wear houses but it didn’t mean that distribution and wear houses were not connected. Warehouse Infrastructure Initiative became the Direct shop Delivery Transformation Initiative. Pepsi Company has a supplier code to clarify their health and safety while distributing their product; they
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Keys to Success: Organization‚ Time Management and Communication There are three key foundations to successful online learning: organization‚ time management and communication. All three of these elements play a role in both my career field and for my online learning. After reading through articles based on these topics‚ the same underlying theme is apparent and I will discuss how this is used in my career. First‚ it is highly beneficial to be organized when starting any task or sequence of
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Key to success To be or not to be‚ that is a question. To succeed or to fail? How to succeed and how to achieve? These problems confuse many teenagers in nowadays. We all have dreams‚ and we all work hard to realize them. But there will always be some problems and setbacks to stop the pace of advance. When they appear‚ what should we do? To stop or to go on? Mrs. Curie told us the answer. We all know that Mrs. Curie discovered radium‚ but how many people really know how hard she worked? At that
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Head & shoulder a brand owned by Proctor & Gamble was established in the 1950’s and has strived to create a formula for a shampoo that can get rid of dandruff (Headandshoulders 2011). Head & Shoulders differentiate from other brands because it does not only just help eliminate dandruff it also helps maintain the basic needs of people’s hair such as fighting of dryness‚ relieving of irritation‚ control of oil and maintenance of silky hair. Head & Shoulders was recommended by 82% of its members of
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