is exposed to greater uncertainty. A convenience store chain can improve responsiveness to this uncertainty using one of the following strategies‚ especially for fresh and fast foods: Local Capacity. The convenience store chain can provide local cooking capacity at the stores and assemble foods almost on demand. Inventory would be stored as raw material. This is seen at the U.S. fast-food restaurant franchise Subway where dinner and lunch sandwiches are assembled on demand. The main risk with this
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Seven-Eleven Japan1 Established in 1973‚ Seven-Eleven Japan set up its first store in Koto-ku‚ Tokyo‚ in May 1974. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. In 2004 it was owned by the Ito-Yokado group‚ which also managed a chain of supermarkets in Japan and owned a majority share in Southland‚ the company managing 7-Eleven in the United States. On September 1‚ 2005‚ Seven & I Holdings Co.‚ Ltd.‚ was established as the holding company for Seven-Eleven Japan‚ Ito-Yokado
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SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN CO. CASE ANALYSIS What is the future outlook for Seven Eleven Stores in USA? Seven-Eleven is part of an international chain of convenient stores. 7-Eleven‚ primarily operating as a franchise‚ is the world ’s largest operator‚ franchisor and licensor of convenience stores‚ with more than 46‚000 outlets. The Seven-Eleven business model consists of five key elements: * A differentiated merchandising strategy; * Utilization of 7-Eleven’s retail information system & Managed
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Tanpin Karin is a demand-oriented method of chain management successfully used by Seven-Eleven`s Japan. It`s credited to the company`s CEO‚ Toshifumi Suzuki‚ who started to develop it during the 70`s in response to a shift in the market from a seller`s orientation to a buyer`s drive. Until then‚ the inventory decision-making process was led by supply-chain management practices – items were seen as commodities and replenished according with the amounts that they had sold in the past. In contrast‚
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INTRODUCTION The Seven-Eleven Japan Co. case discusses about the rise of Seven-Eleven in the Japanese retail store business. It analyzes the factors contributors to the phenomenal success of the company in the retail business with a supply chain perspective. The analysis focuses on the company’s supply chain strategy and performance drivers which leads to great balance between efficiency and responsiveness. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 1) A convenience store chain can be responsive and provide customers
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taking the risk of been out of stock and not fulfilling the demand. * Creating a distribution center is one of the best ways to reduce costs‚ and also control their own supply chain. The risk of this method is that initiating a distribution center is expensive‚ if your chain has not made the idealize amount of profits this approach is very risky‚ because this method requires structure‚ employees‚ machines‚ among other expenses. 2. Seven-Eleven’s supply chain strategy in Japan can be described
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Supply Chain Management Case study of Seven-Eleven Japan Company A. Background Seven-Eleven‚ a famous convenience store‚ was established in 1973 and had its first store in Tokyo in May 1974. It was found by Masatoshi Ito while he thought that superstores were the wave of the future after a trip to the United States. The company was first listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1979. During 1985-2009‚ the numbers of store and its annual sales experienced tremendous growth that the
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takes place‚ ending one month of uncertainty and signaling the beginning of another. We Americans prepare our whole life against uncertainty‚ planning our entire life as an adolescent. We continue to fulfill that plan‚ keeping life stable and predictable. Keeping life certain. I have learned that life itself is a dive into uncertainty and no matter how far you try to run away from life‚ it will catch up ( as what has happened to my relatives)‚ so I have embrace uncertainty‚ and even though at times it
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When considering a distribution network design for 7-Eleven in the United States one must consider the measures that influence the structure of that network. These measures are: response time‚ product variety‚ product availability‚ customer experience‚ time to market‚ order visibility‚ and returnability. The latter three are of less relevance when consider the function of a convenience store chain. A chain like 7-Eleven aims to provide it’s customers with a small variety of essential items (motor
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Team 1 Tanpin Kanri: Retail Practice at Seven-Eleven Japan Case Study Frizzi Engler-Hamm Luis Paul Hernandez Antony Pinedo Esteban Ramon Marcelo Talavera MAN 6830: Organization Information Systems Dr. Pouyan Esmaeil Zadeh 1. Briefly describe Tanpin Kanri. Tanpin Kanri is a demand-chain management system that uses POS to identify which items are selling and which articles are shelf-warmers. It is used to replace the slow moving merchandise by different merchandises. Those new orders
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