fluctuations – week-to-week variation in distributors order pattern‚ strained Barilla’s manufacturing and logistics operations: high inventory‚ stock out‚ low fill rate to customers. - Pressures to manufacturing in terms of production lead-time and availability of the product - High inventory cost and manufacturing cost due to operational inefficiencies - Strong resistance for JITD (Just In Time Distribution) Program implementation‚ either from Barilla’s distributor or its own sales and marketing department
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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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This basically toyed with the idea of delivering its products to its distributors as per Barilla’s customer demand projections and workload on its manufacturing and logistics systems. The core problem addressed in this case is – “How to effectively implement JITD by resolving the issue of having control over the fluctuating demand. “ The company has a very complex distribution network including independent third party distributors and due to such a multi-level network‚ it has been experiencing large
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INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTOR APPLICATION USA Fax 800.466.6289 Primary Applicant Contact Information Primary Applicant *Required Information (Please Print Clearly) ( ( ) ) - ( ) - *First and Last Name (Legal Name) *Home Phone Cell Phone Co-Applicant or Company Name Fax Number - - *Applicant E-mail *Birth Date (MM/DD/YYYY) (Applicant must be 18 years or older) *Social Security Number or EIN for Business Entity Primary Applicant Billing Address (Must
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Makes Status Check Phone Calls * Quarterly to Selected Customers * Monthly to Small Distributors * Weekly to Large Distributors Marketing Prepares Business Development Campaigns: * Advertising Press Releases * Trade Shows * Direct Communication * User Conferences Significant Items Recorded in Goldmine SM Visits to Distributors: (Quarterly- large distributors; semi-annually – small distributors) * Review Forecast * Review Key Prospects * Joint Customer Visits * Blue Sheet Review
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have on their business operations. Furthermore‚ selecting the first few group of distributors is critical and should very be meticulous in the selection process. Mostly the selected distributors are fairly new to the industry and do not have a deeply embedded system in place with their buyers or with distributors that are willing to take more risk and not so averse to change. On top of that‚ give these distributors a portion of the saving that the manufactures will save in the successful implementation
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Traditional marketing approach (wholesaler‚ retailer) is combined with direct distribution to target customers: events and Red Bull cars (http://www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&language=english&id=775) USA: They have partner distributors (exclusive) in the States (vertical distribution: contractual?): Separate Distribution company‚ that Red Bull owns: Red Bull Distribution Co.‚ a subsidiary of Red Bull North America based in Santa Monica‚ Calif. (http://www.bizjournals.com/tr
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inventory information and sales forecast information 3 1.3 Promotions and quantity discounts 4 1.4 Lack of sophistication at the retailer and distributor level 4 1.5 Barilla’s large number of SKU’s 4 1.6 Barilla’s production process 4 2. Solutions 5 2.1 Promotions and quantity discounts 5 2.2 Lack of sophistication at the retailer and distributor level 5 2.3 Large number of SKU’s 5 2.4 Production process 5 3. Proposed Strategy for decreasing bullwhip effect 6 3.1 Step 1 -
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Table of Contents Sr. No. | Title | Page Number | 1 | Introduction | 2 | 2 | Distribution Channels Structure | 2 | 3 | Terms of Appointment and Incentives for Distribution Channels | 3 | 4 | Reporting‚ Control and evaluation system for their sales force | 5 | 7 | Recommendations and Conclusion | 5 | 8 | References & Bibliography | 6 | Introduction: Success toady in the competitive world has become very difficult. This is because it does not solely depend on basic factors but
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externally. Internally sales and marketing departments were completely opposing new concept. Externally‚ distributors did not want to relinquish power over managing their own inventory. Although “total pasta consumption was relatively consistent throughout the year”‚ Barilla experienced extreme fluctuations in orders from week to week. (page 2 and exhibit 13). Barilla had many distributors which used “internal planning process‚” and was not consistent across the board. There lack of sophisticated
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