Executive Summary In 1875, Pietro Barilla opened a small shop and laboratory where they produced, and sold pasta and breads. 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 Europe. Since Pietro’s grandsons took over, Pietro and Gianni, Barilla evolved into a vertically integrated company with flour mills, pasta plants and baking products. This case study outlines Giorgio Maggiali’s (Director and Logistics) concern
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Case Report Barilla SpA ------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Table of Contents | | | Section | TITLE | PAGE | | | | | | | | | 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | 3 | | | | | * | | * 2 CHALLENGES OF A LEAN SUPPLY CHAIN | 4 | | | 3 PRACTICAL STEPS FOR BARILLA SPA | 5 | | | 4 CONCLUSION | 6 | | | * 5 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CASE STUDY BARILLA SpA (A) TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1 COVER PAGE PAGE 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PAGE 4 ISSUE IDENTIFICATION – IMMEDIATE ISSUE PAGE 4 ISSUE IDENTIFICATION – SYSTEMIC ISSUES PAGE 5 ISSUE IDENTIFICATION – SYSTEMIC ISSUES CONTINUED PAGE 6 ENVIRONMENTAL & ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS PAGE 6 ALTERNATIVES AND / OR OPTIONS PAGE 7 ALTERNATIVE AND / OR OPTIONS (CONTINUED) PAGE 8 RECOMMENDATIONS & IMPLEMENTATION PAGE 9 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN PAGE 9 MONTIOR
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CASE: Barilla SpA (A) I.Overview of the Case Barilla SpA (Barilla) is a renounced Italian manufacturer that sells several brands of pasta to retailers mainly through third-party distributors. The company was founded in 1875 by Pietro Barilla in Parma, Italy, on Via Vittorio Emanuele. The company passed through the hands of generations from Pietro to his son Ricardo, then to his sons, Pietro and Gianni. The sons “drove the Barillas deeply into debt”; in 1971 the company was sold to a U.S
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Barilla SpA Case Study Operations Management Prabir K. Bagchi, Ph.D. April 11th, 2012 [pic] Jason Grossman_____________________________________ Odelya Hayon_______________________________________ Evan Kline__________________________________________ Stephen Nason_______________________________________ Victoria Portale______________________________________ Current Problems Barilla SpA is the world leader in producing and selling a multitude of different pastas and baked goods, however,
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For years Barilla was successful in selling their brand of fine pastas but when a shift in demand for products resulted in items being sold out, Barilla tried to operate like a responsive supply chain which did not work for this functional product. Based on Fisher’s 2x2 model Barilla’s supply chain should be run as a functional product with an efficient supply chain. Barilla should run a more efficient supply chain which can be achieved through the use of the Just-In-Time-Distribution (JITD) program;
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CASE REPORT BARILLA SpA (A) PREPARED FOR PREPARED BY DATE | | | | | |Section |TITLE
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SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY A CASE STUDY OF BARILLA SpA. Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 2. Body of the repot 3. conclusion Executive Summary Barilla SpA is the case study that I will be examining in this paper presentation. I will be looking critically into some of the issues why the Just-in-time-distribution (JITD) program that was proposed by Brando Vitali who had served as Barilla’s directors of logistics before Maggiali had met a strong resistance
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GLOBAL LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT IE 576 ASSIGNMENT: BARILLA SpA, Case Study ELABORATED BY: Jose David Padilla 1028909 Cindy Sutanto 1025458 Karina Anchecta 1025454 1. What factors, internal and external, contribute to the Barilla supply chain carrying large quantities of inventory? Be specific about how these factors increase inventory in the Barilla supply chain. Internally, their manufacturing process causes long lead time and slow responsiveness to quick changes in demands
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Barilla SpA(A) 1. What are the causes of fluctuation? (20 points) • Distributors Demand Forecasting - Distributors lack the forecasting systems to predict demand accurately. They rely mostly on average demand from previous periods to forecast demand. They do inventory review weekly and place order when inventory level drops below safety stock level. Safety stock level is calculated based on average demand, which fluctuates from time to time. • Leadtime - Manufacturing process
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