chain. Albeit‚ I need to contend with both internal and external stakeholders’ resistance to the system’s implementation‚ get the top management buy–in and build trust among stakeholders by engaging them at different levels. My decision is that Barilla should start the implementation of the JITD system with our selected distributors as a pilot‚ which would enhance visibility with distributors‚ improve service levels and increase internal efficiencies. Background Pasta is the staple
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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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Barilla SpA (Written Case Report) By Imran Chaudhry Overview: Barilla SpA one of the world’s largest pasta producer has growing burden of demand fluctuations and venialities on its manufacturing and distribution system. Giorgio Maggiali as director of logistics trying to implement idea of JITD (Just-in Time Delivery) so that Barilla’s own logistics department could manage more effectively delivery quantities and meet end consumer’s needs and more evenly distribute the workload on its
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Harvard Business School 9-694-046 Rev.JuneU‚ 1994 Barilla SpA (A) Giorgio Maggiali was becoming increasingly frustrated. As director of Logistics for the world’s largest pasta producer‚ Barilla SpA1‚ he was acutely aware of the growing burden that demand fluctuations imposed on the cornpany’s manufacturing and distribution system. Since his appointment in 1988 as Director of Logistics‚ he had been trying to make headway on an innovative idea proposed by Brando Vitali‚ who had served as Barilla’s
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Case Memo – Barilla SpA Student #: 68979111 Giorgio Maggiali‚ as director of Logistics for Barilla SpA‚ was acutely aware of the growing burden that demand fluctuations imposed on the company’s manufacturing and distribution system. In order to address this issue‚ he proposed the innovative idea of Just-‐in-‐Time
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of this report is to analyze the four components of the marketing mix of the Barilla brand “The Italian Food Company Since 1877”. Pietro Barilla founded the parent company more than 125 years ago. Since it’s founding‚ the privately held company has been run by four generations of the Barilla family‚ including up to the present day in Perma‚ Italy. The parent company has 27 factories‚ 15 of which are in Italy. Barilla sells it’s products in about 100 countries‚ running 25 plants and marketing operations
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Barilla Business Case Group 6 Principal challenges and opportunities for Barilla In the 90s the focus of big food companies was on aggressively conquering supermarkets’ shelf space with the aim of increasing the depth and breadth of consumers’ spending. The 21st century food purchasers‚ however‚ seem to possess profound nutrition knowledge. They consider the quantity of fats‚ sugars and preservatives. This situation creates a unique opportunity for Barilla to become the worldwide Ambassador
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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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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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Abstract The Barilla SpA case study tackles mainly about its supply chain and the system within it. Starting from the manufacturing of the product up to the distribution and selling of it. JITD‚ a distribution system which might possibly minimize the cost and inventory of the company is being considered to implement in the company’s distribution system to address the fluctuation in their demand. Advantages and disadvantages of JITD were compared. Introduction Barilla SpA is a pasta manufacturing
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