Executive Summary Barilla SpA‚ an Italian pasta manufacturer‚ is experiencing greater levels of inefficiencies and rising costs due to variability in demand from its distributors. In order to restore things to order and to improve margins‚ Giorgio Magialli‚ the Director of Logistics at Barilla wants to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system that was proposed by his predecessor Brando Vitali. This system is completely different from the existing setup and is being opposed by both the
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Barilla’s pasta supply chain suffers from classic bullwhip-effect problems: High inventory levels maintained at each level of the supply chain; frequent stockouts at the distribution level; demand variability exaggeration up the chain‚ and aggravated by constant sales promotions‚ Full Truck Load(FTL) and other volume incentives; and a lack of information on which to forecast demand. In addition‚ the increasing variability of Barilla’s dry pasta product (about 800 SKUs) intensifies all the problems
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[Type the company name] | Barilla Sp(A) Case Study | | | | | Barilla JITD Case Study Just in time distribution (JITD) was designed to address the fluctuating demand of products that created additional costs in production‚ scheduling‚ and transportation. Barilla was to blame for several of these underlying problems. For example‚ Barilla offered transportation discounts‚ volume discounts‚ 10-12 promotions throughout the year‚ as well as no maximum or minimum constraints on orders
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“Moral hazard‚ asymmetric information and IPO lockups” by Yung and Zender (2010) We will first examine the development of various hypothesis surrounding lock-ups‚ this will be followed by the empirical results supporting the use of proxy variables and we explain how they were used to test the variety of hypotheses. Particular attention will be paid to the separate subsamples of firms‚ and the data concerning the differential correlation between underpricing and lockup length across the subsamples
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Barilla Brando Vitali‚ the earlier Director of logistics in Barilla SpA proposed an idea of Just- In- Time Distribution (JITD). The proposed JITD system required the distributors to share their sales data with Barilla‚ who would then forecast and deliver appropriate amounts of products to the distributors at the right time in order to effectively meet demand. Instead of Distributors giving orders according to them‚ company should deliver its products on time by its own
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Barilla SpA Case Study Define the Problem: Describe the type of case and what problem(s) or issue(s) should be the focus for your analysis. Type: Supply Chain Problems/Issues: - Extreme demand 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
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Case Study: Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA: The Transit Point Experiment The Organization Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA (Merloni)‚ is a major Italian manufacturer of freestanding and built-in appliances. Merloni’s distribution network consists of five manufacturing plants‚ a centralized warehouse‚ and seventeen regional warehouses. During the past few years‚ Merloni has implemented programs that have successfully shortened production-planning lead times and decreased inventory levels. In particular
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CPMGT/300 May 13‚ 2013 Hair Spa Website Project: Breaking Down the Work How WBS contributes to the success of the project management process. According to Kerzner‚ achieving contract objectives “requires a plan that defines all effort to be expended‚ assigns responsibility to a specially identified organizational element‚ and establishes schedules and budgets for the accomplishment of the work‚” (2009). A work breakdown structure (WBS) is important because it is the foundation upon which a project
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