Li & Fung is a one of the most successful trading company in Hong Kong. It creates value to its clients by providing total supply chain solution services from raw materials to finished products. The organic growth and acquiring industry rivals strategy have contributed to Li & Fung’s success in the past. The disruptive e-Commerce phenomenon forces Li & Fung to review its business strategy. With the combination of the new e-Commerce challenge and its core historical strengths‚ Li & Fung saw the
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riony [pic] Li & Fung : Case Study Analysis Executive summary Aim This report aims to examine the Li & Fung business model and illustrate the challenges faced by the trading industry in the global market place. Factors Conclusions It is concluded that: Recommendations It is recommended that Li & Fung : Situation Analysis • Li&Fung achieves operating margins consistently around or above 3% and has become the largest trading company in Hong Kong. • In 1997 the
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Li and Fung’s Core Strengths One of the core strengths of Li and Fung was acquisitions as they saw it as a means to sustain growth momentum. Most of the time they tried to “fill in the mosaic” by acquiring competitors in areas where they lacked positioning‚ expertise or talent. They just did not acquired companies they made them integrated with the old ones to make When they acquire companies Li & Fung’s strategy is to integrate incoming staff and streamline operations seamlessly within 100
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Strategy Management (Case study 1: Li& Fung) SWOT Analysis Strength Opportunity Extensive network of suppliers (global reach supplier with SCM) Provision of value added service (customer centric structure) Entrepreneur corporate culture Low –end with hard goods Emerging Market Weakness Threaten Over dependence on US Market Vast supplier network makes it tough to maintain Increasing expense from acquisiton Continuing global economy downturn - Collapse of the American
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Headquartered in Hong Kong‚ Li & Fung Limited’s extensive global sourcing network covers more than 80 offices in more than 40 economies around the world. The global trading company supplies high-volume‚ time-sensitive consumer goods. Particularly‚ garments make up a large part of its business which also covers the sourcing of hard goods such as fashion accessories‚ furnishings‚ gifts‚ handicrafts‚ home products‚ promotional merchandise‚ toys‚ sporting goods and travel goods. Li & Fung plays the role as a
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guidelines‚ which their suppliers must follow. As a result suppliers to this industry do not wield much bargaining power. The buyers of the services rendered by this industry include large multi national corporations that outsource their supply chain management activities as it is outside their core competencies. Some customers are extremely large volume buyers and as a result have a large amount of influence on the price of these services. The cost of switching between traders is small and the
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Competitor’s Analysis…………………………………………….7-8 5. Information System….…………………………………………….9 6. Threats & Limitations……………………………………………..10 7. Options…………………………………………………………….11 8. Recommendations…………………………………………………12 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For past 96 years Li & Fung has been an export trading company with its branches spread across the globe. The company plans to enter into a new venture of online business. Entering into online business the company faces challenges to retain its existing customers and to capture
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Global Value Chain Management Amber Douangboupha Organizations compete in the global market with many goals in mind. These goals include increasing their competitive advantage‚ adding value‚ and reducing costs through global sourcing. Organizations today must rely on effective value chain management to compete in the global market. Global value chain management focuses on the network of interconnected establishments involved in coordinating a product from a raw material to the finished
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unprofitable customers someone else will » ECCO A/S – Global value chain management case study Wednesday‚ August 31st‚ 2011 at 8:27 am My operations management coursework was based on the ECCO A/S – Global Value Chain Management case study which is an interesting paper on ECCO A/S (ECCO) who have been very successful in the footwear industry by focusing on production technology and assuring quality by maintaining full control of the entire value chain from “cow to shoe.”. ECCO follow a differentiation
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Summary Li & Fung‚ which is a long-standing Hong Kong based company‚ has evolved from an export trading company to a coordinator of value-added services across the whole supply chain in a global‚ open manufacturing circumstance. Its corporate culture has enabled it to keep pace with the current trend of global business. The successful acquisitions and the venture capital make the company grows stably and rapidly. However‚ the company now faces some challenges coming from Asian financial environment
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