1. Causes for JITD implementation There were large fluctuations in the demand of pasta industry and distribution centres kept high inventory because of that reason (they were increasing inventory of items they already stocked and added items they currently did not carry). There was also a stockouts issue that strain Barillas’s manufacturing and logistics operations. The main reason for such fluctuations was the so-called bullwhip effect‚ which is an observed phenomenon in forecast-driven distribution
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Barilla SpA currently must decide the logistic planning of its future production and distribution systems. The company is suffering from issues dealing with fluctuating demand from distributors‚ and the lack of end user sales and demand information. Brando Vitali‚ the former director of logistics for Barilla‚ suggested the use of a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system in order to fix these issues. After much resistance from distributors and Barilla employees itself‚ a decision as to whether
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0019038430Barilla SpA Rohit Agarwal NUID : 001903843 Barilla SpA (A) Introduction: Barilla was founded in 1875 when Pietro Barilla opened a small shop in Parma‚ Italy on via Vittorio Emanuele. Adjoining the shop was the small “laboratory’ Pietro used to make the pasta and bread products he sold in his store. In 1990‚ Barilla was the largest pasta manufacturer in the world‚ making 35% of all pasta sold in Italy and 22% of all pasta sold in the Europe. Barilla was organized into seven divisions: three pasta
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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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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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