Supply Chain of Food Industry

The main elements of a supply chain include purchasing, operations, distribution, and integration. The supply chain begins with purchasing. Purchasing managers or buyers are typically responsible for determining which products their company will sell, sourcing product suppliers and vendors, and procuring products from vendors at prices and terms that meets profitability goals.

Recognized as one of the leading computer manufacturers, Dell uses an astonishing supply chain through pull-to-order procurement and just-in-time inventory management. Their strategy is highly efficient and drives costs to a minimum while allowing for minimal lead times and production times of under 4 hours for each order as their suppliers maintain levels of inventory based on forecasts within Dell warehouses near Dell assembly

Reorders are placed at the time of review (T), and the safety stock that must be reordered is:

Supplies are the vital factor to having successful operation and to be efficient with the business you are providing. In order to bring value to the organization, you must insure that customers are satisfied with the quality health care provide in each transports, so that they can continue use transport with future transports.

When implementing project 1, you face technical and market risk. How would you assess the risks embedded in Project 1?

Kudler fine food’s supply chain forms the center of its business processes beginning with its purchasing department followed by advertising, accounting, inventory management, forecasting, and merchandising selection and pricing. Its business processes could be enhanced by taking advantage of IT systems like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and, Expanded (ERP), Digital Supply chain, Real-Time Demand-Driven Operation, Inter-organizational information systems (IOS), Electronic data interchange (EDI), Vendor Managed inventory, On-Demand Customer

Pollan believes that the Industrial Food Chain is poisoning for us, and our environment. First of all, “GMOs are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things” (25). Explaining that GMOs are being used as an experient for a way to get more money for business that sell it. Also, that it is going to mess up the process of how things naturally work. Secondly, “The waste from CAFOs is a huge source of very toxic pollution” (49). CAFOs are producing toxins that are harming our earth. The cattle's waste is used as manure, and because of the “only-corn” diet, the cows manure isn’t healthy leading us to it giving off pollutants. Third, “Some of it turns into nitrous oxide, a gas that increases global warming… Some of it evaporates into

[By doing so, customers ultimately get better value, therefore each member of the supply chain gains competitive advantage.] Pars Food Ltd currently outsources their raw materials, therefore they have looked at sourcing their own potatoes with their own transport. Due to high amounts of quality rejection of frozen chips, they would like to reduce this, thus, having their own transport means they are now in control of how their raw materials get to their factories and therefore can monitor quality more closely, ultimately improving it. In terms of investing in storage and improving customer satisfaction and zero complaint levels; Jane William’s Idea of using the Just in Time method may achieve this, by having their own transport they have control over how reliable the supply is and communication should not be a problem. Therefore products can be made as they are needed and their won’t be as much need for storage e.g. “Stake Cut Chips” which have been left in storage for 2 months and not shifted.

By taking a more collaborative approach, major improvement could be made. One way is by embracing the concept of “Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment” (CPFR) which have been developed and successfully employed by leading food retailers. It foresees that data is shared and discussed actively between retailers and suppliers, e.g. by producing joint forecast on annual production volumes, also considering foreseeable flunctuations. With a better understanding of the mutual dependencies, the planning basisi could be improve and complexity reduced. On the short term planning basis, making aviable sales data collected in-store 9from the scanner-equipped cash registers) to suppliers in real time allows suppliers to produce more accuratelty to the actual demand, and thus reducing cost for buffers and excess inventory (Trebilcock 006). Of course, Aldi will have to receive a certain share of these benefits. Going one step further would be to add ”Category Management” to Aldi’s supplier collaboration approach to optimise assortment towards the end of customer needs.

I guess it is almost similar to fast food; however, I used to work as a waiter at a country club. I was paid minimum wage though, and it wasn't bad working there, but a bit rough for me because the customers were kind of skeptical to take orders from me due to my deafness. They would ask, can you read lips or can you read the menu. I was like in my head, duh if I can't and then I wouldn't become a waiter or whatsoever. I politely smiled and said yes, I can read and if you speak slowly and I would understand and you can point at the menu whichever you want to order. I would say I can identify with emotional labor because some of them did not want me to be their waiter and asked for a different one. I was impressed with the manager because she did not let it barrier me from not going to a different table. She would come up and fix the problem with the customers and insisted that I was a good waiter. From now on, the customers got used to me being their waiter and irony is that I was their favorite waiter. I was glad to have experienced this opportunity because it helped me to build my confidence interacting with hearing people.

Too many people pick up food products off of the shelves and put it into their shopping cart without knowing what exactly it is or what the product has been through. After watching an absolutely disturbing documentary called "Food Inc." I started to feel strongly about the problems of the Food Industry. The problem is that our food is no longer being produced in an all American farm, but in dirty abusive factories. Not only is the food unhealthy for us after all of the processing, but the workers and animals are being abused. I know that I single handily cannot change all of the problems with the twisted food industry, but I know that I can do my part by making others aware so that they can make sure that they can make fully informed decisions about what they are putting into their carts at the grocery store and eventually into their bodies.

The past sixty years have been revolutionary in the way the food industry has progressed, particularly after the Second World War, when rationing and the conservation of materials was no longer a priority. New technologies that had sparked from the industrial revolution brought modern ways to consume calories, and food became another form of entertainment for Americans. With these new factors, came health problems that had been shown in countless studies, as well as the effects that new technologies in terms of food production had on America, and major changes in American attitudes towards food. These realities raised a question that Americans never had to consider in the past: how were these factors shaping America’s

Inventory control is the biggest challenge because of inappropriate inventory management system. There is a requirement of proper food service for better inventory control and also for identifying the important requirements. There is a need to develop the inventory methods for the products and with a standard inventory management company should try to minimize the wastes in terms of future. (Gartenstein, 2012)

Our approach was to facilitate the demand with respect to the market. We penetrated the market by building factory in Fardo and building warehouses to the respective regions, Caleopeia, Sorange, Entworpe, Tyran. Another component that we had to consider was finding the optimal cost to increase market share and increase our profit margin. Discussion on the logistics will be discussed thoroughly, which affected our decision points and our overall outcome. There are a few questions we needed to answer before we built a road map to our strategy i.e. figuring out where to build the factory and warehouse, estimate the demand of the four regions and Fargo region, should we change capacity, adjust ordering point with respect to quantity, and also

Richard Dana Associates (RDA) was brought in by the owners of a family-owned business with complex relationship issues at a time preceding an anticipated leadership transition. Following individual and group coaching sessions, RDA was able to help the leadership separate personal issues, and codify practices through formal policies to allow the leadership group to focus on business issues without personal complications. At the end of RDA's engagement, the client was well-positioned to begin developing a transition plan.