...I. Executive Summary A third-party logistics provider (abbreviated 3PL, or sometimes TPL) is a firm that provides service to its customers of outsourced (or “third party”) logistics services for part, or all of their supply chain management functions. Third party logistics providers typically specialize in integrated operation, warehousing and transportation services that can be scaled and customized to customers’ needs based on market conditions and the demands and delivery service requirements for their products and materials. 3PL is defined as “a firm that provides multiple logistics services for use by customers. Preferably, these services are integrated, or bundled together, by the provider. Among the services 3PLs provide are transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight forwarding.“ Metro Combined Logistics Solutions Inc. is a third party provider of several companies here in the Philippines; one of them is the Johnson and Johnson Philippines Inc. Metro Combined is the third party provider for the management of the raw and packaging materials warehouse for the said company. Our group had our internship in the said warehouse wherein we were assigned to do several warehousing tasks. We were under the supervision of Mr. Engelbert Ranjo, the Assistant General Manager for Metro Combined and Operations Manager for the Johnson and Johnson account. During our internship we have observed that Johnson and Johnson is incurring a lot...
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...Robinson Findings • Lean Manufacturing – – – – – – – – Originates from Toyota (Lean Enterprise Institute, n.d.) About getting more from less Improves delivery times Does not focus on quality Japanese style of management (American Society for Quality, n.d.) Proven quality management methodology Involves management and empowers employees Does not focus of process streamlining • Total Quality Management (TQM) • Six Sigma – Trademarked by Motorola Corporation in the 1980s (iSix Sigma, n.d.) – Structured and scientific method applied to entire organization (Gygi, Williams & Gustafson, 2012) – High returns expected on training investment – Focuses on both quality and process streamlining Recommendation • Six Sigma Initialization – Define business objectives and goals – Select leadership teams – Assign Executive Leaders, Deployment Leaders and Champions – Setup Communication Plans • Deployment Communication • Project Communication Justification • Lean Manufacturing focuses on streamlining processes but does not address quality • TQM addressing quality but does not emphasize the importance of process streamlining • Six Sigma will streamline processes, reduce costs and provide tools to measure the quality of products References • • American Society for Quality (n.d.). History of Total Quality Management. Retrieved from http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/total-quality-management/overview/tqmhistory.html Gygi, C., Williams, B. & Gustafson, T. Gustafson, T., Gygi, C....
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...steady increase for product demand has enabled the company to start expanding its enterprise to meet the market demand and remain competitive. ASC has decided it is imperative to generate the capital in anticipation of this expansion. This case study reviews the current condition of the sportswear industry and identifies solutions to increase profit margins for ASC by restructuring operational expenses. An examination of the sportswear market will identify the sectors with the most potential for long-term revenue generation. With the market data, a strategic approach can be implemented to adjust the operational processes with the goal of achieving effective increases in the profit margins. This report will focus on the central issues of streamlining the operational processes on profit margins, productivity, and the workforce in order to facilitate the long-term sustainability and competitiveness of ASC. Through this study, the most profit-sustainable market sector is...
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...Artefacts 1.Organization Name: Vsoft Corporation Ltd. 2.Application Architecture Schematic: Data Management System Data Management System VPN management System VPN management System Accessing data Accessing data Flexilible system Flexilible system Securing data Securing data Providing Secure Network Providing Secure Network Controlling Data flow Controlling Data flow Connecting secured hosts Connecting secured hosts Data entities Data entities Reducing data process and data entry Reducing data process and data entry Centralizing software system Centralizing software system Streamlining Workflows Streamlining Workflows Blocking unauthorized acess Blocking unauthorized acess Supports trust,reliability Supports trust,reliability Access Control system Access Control system Improving business Improving business Increasing Customer Satisfaction Increasing Customer Satisfaction Retaining customers Retaining customers Customer Management System Customer Management System Developing new codes Developing new codes Improving System Performance Improving System Performance Supporting all platforms Supporting all platforms Code Control System Code Control System Employee Employee Manager Manager Project Project Software Planning System Software Planning System Department ...
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...Microsoft SharePoint should be considered for future purchase and integration. SharePoint offers a variety of tools to help integrate all aspects of business and assist in streamlining processes. Within SharePoint is the ability to create websites either internal to just the company or available to all users. The websites can be used by the customers to design plates and napkins and submit the order to the sales department. Websites can also be used to provide employees information ranging from benefits to positional information within the company. SharePoint’s composites provide the ability to access and manage data. Within composites users are able to create databases and sites without needing the knowledge of programming code. Composites also provide the ability to control access to all of the data. The ease of use for users using composites will help users become more proficient at the users position. Insights, another tool within SharePoint, provide users the ability to pull data and organize the data into reports to aid with making decisions. This tool can be used by anyone in the company from management all the way down to the floor worker. Imagine a customer ordering a different set of plates. The order is processed as normal and sent onto production. An employee within production decides to pull an order history for the customer and put it into a chart. After analyzing the chart the employee notices this new order is asking for a different style of plate compared to...
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...Scott Cox History 1402 11/07/10 How did Vertical Integration Revolutionize American Business? Vertical Integration is the consolidation of individual businesses within a company, to control all phases production from raw material to finished product and transportation. This concept revolutionized American business by establishing management structures, standardizing products and streamlining the business model and creating consumer marketing techniques Out of necessity, hierarchy structure was brought into industry to control the various activities on a day to day basis and give everyone a specific job, division of labor. Chain of command was established among the workers, middle management, and upper management. Previously businesses were smaller in scale with less people and fewer tasks to control. So, the one or less supervisors could oversee things at that level. With vertical integration, the businesses became larger with more tasks and workers to manage in one environment, so more organization was required. With vertical integration came standardization of products and streamlining of the business model. The consolidating of the business process made the business more efficient and uniform by controlling all aspects of production. By controlling all aspects, you control the result and set the standards. The process is also localized to lower costs and speed up time to deliver. This brought the invention of mass production and the assembly line. The assembly line...
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...class in regards to having a program in place, the rotary phone, despite its lack of modern phone features, served its purpose back then but I am certain that we’re grateful for driven innovative minds who didn’t get stuck in the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. Even though the old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t’ fix it” can apply to many things, one shouldn’t take that philosophy when it comes to organizations streamlining their business processes and programs (Docfinity). While an organization may possess a collective body of knowledge and wisdom from within on improving workflow, it is extremely difficult for any one person to make a change in a work process without the opinions and involvement of other employees and managers (Davidson Ellison). How beneficial for the training specialist to get everyone engaged and convinced to seize the streamlining process as an opportunity to improve the way their job(s) is/are done rather than as extra work. References: Retrieved from: http://www.docfinity.com/if-its-not-broken-why-fix-it-because-improved-business-processes-could-be-just-around-the-corner/#sthash.CBZJMUra.dpuf Davidson,E., (n.d) How to Streamline Work Process and Improve Work Flow. Demand Media. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/streamline-work-process-improve-work-flow-3929.html class: Privacy in a workplace and to what extent should one intervenes, has always been two extreme ends of an argument. But, every effective work environment knows how...
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...Business Case for HR Self Service Systems Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Project Overview 3 Business Case for Proposed Project 4 Conclusion 5 References 5 Executive Summary This paper addresses the business case for implementing self service in the IT industry with the aim of gaining higher efficiency for a majority of HR functions and other benefits that can be derived from improved information access. The paper also discusses the various challenges an organization might face while attempting to implement self-service. The business case for self service revolves around reducing administrative costs and gaining better efficiency. It also aims at improving the overall performance and other benefits such as information management, trend analysis and also operational efficiency. The chief argument presented here is that a self-service initiative allows the HR to concentrate more towards the core functions such as people management instead of getting burdened with administrative tasks. While self-service has the ability to improve the service expectations from HR, it may also result in some of the savings being consumed in order to meet the higher quality expectations. However, on the long run, it is bound to reduce expenses to a great extent while enhancing the quality. Self-service also enables an organization to implement flexible work and helps employees to remain connected with the organization through a centralized HR system aimed at remote...
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...You Decide: Future of Willy’s Candy Company Dear Executive Committee: We’re gathered today to discuss the future of Willy’s Candy Company, which has experienced flat sales and earnings for the last few years. Background: The company’s two major products, Willy’s Yummy Chews and Willy’s Sour Straws, has helped the company maintain sales through a combination of aggressive pricing and trade incentives. Over the years, however, the company has tried to introduce new candy products without much success. As your strategy consultant, I’ll be presenting you an overview of strategic ideas I’ve gathered from key executives in your company. Subsequently, I’ll share with you my own strategic recommendations to help this company move forward. Merger Strategy Given the stagnation of sales and profits the last few years, Chester A. Wonka III, CEO, stresses the fact that the company’s portfolio is mainly supported by its two popular products: Willy’s Yummy Chews and Willy’s Sour Straws. Countless efforts, like pricing and trade incentives, have been done to improve sales, profitability and market share. Unfortunately, none of those have worked and he feels it’s necessary to make a bold, strategic move. Wonka proposes that the company considers a merger with the larger Swiss company that has made countless offers in the past. While this is indeed a bold move, we should weigh the...
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...CASE STUDY PURCHASING MANAGEMENT (Swisher Systems) I. Background of the Study Swisher Systems Corporation is an industrial heating company that was established in 1949. The company is an innovator of flexible heating products, especially with its knit and braided heating element. This heating element is a multi-stranded resistance wire that is knit and braided with fiberglass and is the base technology for almost all of Swisher Systems’ products. The company also produces control devices and heating cable and is known throughout the industry as being the highest-quality flexible heat supplier. Swisher Systems has enjoyed first-mover advantages for quite some time and the industry recognizes Swisher Systems as the innovator of flexible heat. It has several patents that support the company in sustaining market share, while its patented grounded heating element provides additional safety that other flexible heating elements cannot provide. Swisher Systems’ competitive advantage stems from the quality of its products, which are able to maintain higher, safer temperatures that are more flexible that other products on the market. II. Definition of the Problem Swisher Systems is constantly looking for ways to improve its financial status but appears to be overall stable with over 55 years in the business. III. SWOT Analysis Strength • Mike Watkins has had various experiences in materials management prior to joining...
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...Title –Five Decades of Operation Management and the Prospects Ahead INTRODUCTION This article basically talks about the advancement of the operations and supply chain office in the journal in the course of recent decades in tandem with the development in the field of operations management. It praises its past achievements, talks about its present difficulties and imagines the future in this field. It starts with the root of diverse administration contemplations and how the field of operations administration and operations exploration propelled out of it and set forth logical and investigative models for streamlining, institutionalization and dissemination of advantages. The main tread of operations management was streamlining which was in the long run embraced by numerous associations. Later because of different changes in computing innovation and because of mechanical progressions the field of operations was postured with numerous difficulties that brought about more decentralization and center moved to functionalities that brought about the shrinkage of the field. With introduction of new ideas like Just in Time, TPS and TQM there was a shift in the locus of imagination and which prompted the broadening of the field. At last the article portrays how the OSC office in the journal created in a relative way with the extension of new parts into the division bringing about its available structure. It unpretentious components the challenges it stood up to and what is...
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...the package or files are ready to pickup and delivery times, location while en route, and package recipient. The outputs also include various reports, such as all packages for a specific account or a specific driver or route, as well as summary reports for management 2. What technologies are used by UPS? How are these technologies related to UPS’s business strategy? * Computer Center (Data Center) – This is the one that handles the processing and all of the global data process that is feed into the tracking system. * Bar-coding technology - goes with their strategy in delivering packages at the fastest possible time. * Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) - The DIAD also supported their business strategy of streamlining their business operations to provide best service to the customers. * A Web-based Post Order Management System - Management of other businesses supply chain with its own Global delivery network technology. * UPS’s Wide Area Network and Internet - helped in connect all their offices globally to connect to the centralized Data Center using Internet so that they can update the tracking system with live information and data for customers to also view in real time. 3. What...
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...explore detailed responsibilities and define main objectives the selected candidate must accomplish. The entire team of interviewers should get familiar with this document prior to the interview. Qualifying Resumes • Filtering by location permits elimination of geographically incompatible applicants if they are unwilling to relocate. • The requisite education is addressed in the job ad. It's easy to discard resumes of candidates who do not qualify based on education. • Filters based on must-haves listed in the ad might include: works independently, detail minded, creative problem solver, etc. • Careless errors raise red flags, such as misspelled words, simple grammar errors, too long, convoluted sentences. Streamlining Hiring Procedures Consider streamlining your hiring procedures by removing unnecessary interviewers from the team. This is a good example of where 'less is more'. Your selection process won't be better based on a large number of interviewers; the ideal is achieved when each interviewer knows precisely what to measure for each candidate. Current statistics have it that for each job opening, companies attract 250 resumes. Using the evidence-based interview process, 4-6 applicants will be invited to interview and of course, only one person will receive a job offer. Performance Based Interviews The purpose of face-to-face interviews is to assemble enough 'evidence' to vet the applicants and make a conscious hiring decision. As the first line interviewer;...
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...company to meet customer demand, have a well-organized delivery system and reduce costs. II. Review of Background Information With Coors’ old system, the company took two days to process new orders. Orders were not tracked, so the salespeople cannot determine if the shipment has been delivered on time. Due to this, the company was forced to build up inventory to meet customer demand. From this stems three main problems – not being able to meet customer satisfaction, long lead times, and high operating costs. III. Analysis of Facts/Data In the case, the company focused first on determining what the customer needs. In knowing their customer, the company was able to devise a process wherein Coors would be able to operate well. Streamlining the process within the company meant that every step in turning raw materials into the finished product would not be put to waste – everything was used in the most practical and resourceful manner. This also meant that they were able to deliver quality products to the customer on time, thereby increasing customer satisfaction. Having good information systems in place also meant that Coors management could easily pinpoint where in the process a problem lies. Decisions could be made with certainty of their impact. IV. Alternative Courses of Action 1. Adapt a new information system that will address the needs of Coors Ceramics in terms of: a. increasing customer’s satisfaction b. reducing lead time c. reducing operating...
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...a. Identify some costs savings Supervalu might realize by reducing the number of items it carries in inventory by 25 percent. Be as specific as possible and use your imagination. By reducing inventory by 25%, Supervalu might realize cost savings in employee time spent conducting transactions, picking, packaging, and handling inventory. This will also decrease the space required to store inventory both from eliminating a product line and streamlining packaging. This could allow space for another product line or reduce overhead costs if a section of the warehouse utilities can be turned off. The company may realize a cost savings with vendor pricing and may receive a bulk discount when ordering the same size/type of packaging. The cost to finance the inventory will be reduced as well as the cost of insurance to cover the potential loss of inventory. b. Prepare revised product-line earnings statements based on the elimination of Sugar-Bits. It will be necessary to calculate some per-unit data to accomplish this. Per unit data for Fiber-Treats and Carbo-Crunch prior to eliminating Sugar-Bits (amounts are in thousands): Fiber-Treats: Sales $480,000 ÷ 480,000 = $1.0000 Cost of production 48,000 ÷ 480,000 = $ .1000 Sales commission 6,000 ÷ 480,000 = $ .0125 Shipping and handling 10,800 ÷ 480,000 = $ .0225 Miscellaneous 3,600 ÷ 480,000 = $ .0075 Carbo-Crunch: Sales $400,000 ÷ 480,000 = $1.0000 Cost of production 48,000 ÷ 480,000 = $ .1000 Sales commissions...
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