Distribution 1 Final Assignment Param Singh Gill W22
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DHumber College Post Graduate Supply Chain Management Program
SCM 5000 Distribution One Transportation Assignment (Final Assignment)
Professor: Natalie Kotikova – Winter 2022
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The situation….
You have been hired by the company that you used for your Mid Term Assignment in Supply and
Demand 1 (Sedar Database Financial Records Assignment). If you are not enrolled in S&D 1 this
semester contact the instructor to determine a suitable organization.
The company has decided to build a single DC that will serve the entire Canadian Marketplace.
This will involve closing any existing DCs in Canada.
The site location has been chosen for you
and will be Bolton Ontario. A suitable sized plot of land has been purchased and this site will
only be served by road (no direct rail siding will exist).
Using the type of product your company
distributes (either from manufacturing itself or purchasing from an external firm) you will need
to design a distribution centre and make recommendations on specific areas of operations and
management. In each of the challenges you will be asked to make a recommendation and then
defend your recommendation based on your course learnings.
The recommendations you make must be based on you understanding the trade-offs that exist
based on your learnings in this course and you also should be prepared to justify any major
expenses (i.e. recommendation of significant automation should be well supported to justify its
cost). You will be assessed considering the level of thought and connection between your course
learnings, your subject company and the type of products that will flow through the DC. You will
need to make some reasonable assumptions based on a company’s volume and market stability.
For the purpose of this exercise consider your organization as stable within the industry (unless
you specifically know otherwise) and that current volumes are forecasted to be consistent for at
least five years. State any assumption that you require in the challenge they apply to.
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Challenge 1. Describe Your Organization
Provide a brief background about the organization itself and the type of products that it will be
distributing through the new DC. Please provide basic information here on the volume of
product and value that are anticipated to flow through the DC.
Please use information from the
financial statements for the year that you used and make reasonable assumptions where
necessary.
The organisation that I chose for the Mid Term Assignment in Supply and Demand 1 is
“PlantXLife”
Inc. In this generation every human being wants a wholesome lifestyle. Overtime
from a choice it has become a necessity to maintain a healthy lifestyle as it helps build our
immunity which in turn protects us against various chronic noncommunicable diseases like
respiratory diseases, cancer, cardiac diseases, and many others. All of us have understood the
importance of immunity in the recent times as we witnessed the COVID-19 pandemic, at that
point of time it became crystal clear as to how important it is to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
During the new trend people are also shifting to a plant-based diet as it has many benefits to
offer than a normal diet such as: Improving brain health, decreasing chances of getting cancer,
helps in reducing and in some cases even reversing diabetes, and the best benefit is that it
promotes weight loss. Just sustaining on a healthy lifestyle is not the reason for shifting people
from a normal diet to plant-based diet but also increasing cruelty against animals is a major
force guiding this shift. I selected “PlantX Life Inc.” as their goal is to provide a healthy lifestyle
to the people through a series of products they offer. Portfolio of PlantX Life is huge as they
offer products in the category of groceries, beverages, wellness, meal delivery, pet food and
even household supplies. PlantX Life Inc. understood the trend going on as they know that in
such a busy schedule it devoids an individual of the time to do grocery shopping and then cook
for themselves. So PlantX Life is aiming on providing healthy lifestyle to everyone at their
doorstep whether it be their home or office. PlantX Life is huge when it comes to the size of the
organisation and this becomes evident from the fact that they are listed on global stock
exchanges such as CSE: VEGA, OTCQB: PLTXF, Frankfurt: WNT1 and many others. Till date $30
Million have been raised along with 5 acquisitions of companies namely: EH & Portfolio Coffee,
Bloombox Club, Locavore Bar and Grill, New Deli and Little West. When talking about revenues
their revenue growth was from 0% to $2 Million per month in one year. As of now they have 8
flagship locations in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Rideau, Plainfield, and others. The food
industry is a cutthroat market and therefore relations are very important to thrive in such a
market and that is why PlantX Life has established relationships with celebrity chefs and brand
ambassadors such as Matthew Kenney, Venus Williams, Justin Fields, and others. As of now
around 10,000 shareholders have put their trust in the vision of PlantX Life. Products are not
just listed on their online platform, but they are also listed at other establishments such as
Amazon, Walmart, and The Bay. In short PlantX Life is the one stop-shop for everything plant-
based.
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Challenge 2 – Receiving Procedures
Describe the product that will be received into the facility, including the modes of
transportation, unitization and packaging.
Then, provide a summary of the key receiving
procedures or processes you recommend be used to ensure this process is efficient and
effective. Include a description of any metrics that you consider important in managing the
receiving process.
Complete responses will focus on supporting recommendations for the receiving process and
how it will be managed. The only sources to be used for this discussion are those found in your
textbook, the course site, the course modules, and course discussion boards.
PlantX Life believes that the receiving process is the most crucial step in the field of operations.
As if anything goes wrong at this step then the mistake follows on till the end. Therefore, this
step-in operations is very crucial. PlantX Life is expecting to receive about 500 SKU’s including
beverages, wellness products, groceries and baby food from various vendors. Every week a
planned schedule is made which tells us about the number of containers arriving and quantity
of products as this helps the distribution centre to be prepared. The products arrive in full truck
loads of dry vans and reefers. Therefore, the distribution centre has been divided into two parts
one is refrigerated while the other is not. As some products need to be stored in a cold
environment. With the planned weekly schedule, the distribution centre staff will already tell
the driver the dock number where unloading will be done. Therefore, without wasting anytime
the driver can park at the particular dock number. As soon as the container arrives the receiving
process or the inbound process starts where firstly the seal of the container is checked against
the bill of lading. After that the container will be unloaded. Then our team at the distribution
centre will do a quick inspection to check if there is any physical damage to master pack,
secondary package or primary package and the type of packing depends on the type of product.
The distribution centre has a warehouse management system (WMS) such as SAP. The pallets
are received by using RFID and as soon as they are scanned it automatically updates the records
and also send notification on the RFID reader which the forklift driver always has with him. Then
the forklift driver can rack all these pallets up. This technology is directly connected with the
ERP software and because of this the WMS also gives us real time stock visibility and
traceability. This not only reduces the usage of paper but also improves customer service. We
have also kept two KPI for the purpose of measuring the receiving process. First is the time
taken from off-loading of a truck till the time taken to load the storage location. Second is the
arrival time of the inbound truck. They help in tracking the time taken, because if we are taking
too much time then we are losing on efficiency of our operations.
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