SABMiller revamped its supply chain management system to address stock-outs of popular brands during peak periods in recent years. A study revealed the supply chain was complex due to diverse and changing demand factors in South Africa. SABMiller implemented Infor's advanced supply chain management system to integrate demand forecasting, manufacturing scheduling, and financial planning across its operations. This allows SABMiller to produce products in the most cost-effective locations based on updated demand information. The new system is expected to increase flexibility and profitability while ensuring high stock availability.
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SABMiller, a $24 billion brewing company, revamped its supply chain management system to address stock-outs of popular brands. The company implemented a new forecasting and planning system using Infor software to better integrate demand data from various sources and optimize production scheduling and profits. The new system is being tested in South Africa with plans to roll it out globally. It aims to reduce stock-outs, improve forecasting accuracy by 40%, and lower costs.
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The document discusses the results of a survey of warehousing professionals about changes facing the industry over the next five years. It finds that warehouses are evolving from simple cost centers focused only on efficiency to growth centers that can drive business profits. Key changes include growing order volumes and SKU counts, increased automation, and a shift from basic to full-featured warehouse management systems. Both IT and operations professionals see the need for greater integration across warehouse systems and supply chain partners to achieve flawless order fulfillment.
The UK food and grocery retail market is expected to grow 3.2% in 2011, driven mainly by inflation while volume sales growth has slowed. Grocery retailers continue expanding store space despite slowing sales densities, opening almost twice as much new space in the next five years than between 2005-2010. Promotional activity is intensifying as retailers compete for market share, and building customer loyalty through more complex value propositions will be necessary to differentiate as promotions become embedded in the market. Online grocery sales continue growing but mainly transfer sales from stores, and improving delivery options like click-and-collect could help address concerns around delivery slots and charges preventing greater online usage.
This document discusses trends in enterprise labeling from a survey of 500 supply chain professionals. The top trends are: 1) Businesses are standardizing labeling for consistency and efficiency across global supply chains; 2) Labeling needs to be integrated with business systems and allow for dynamic, data-driven changes; 3) Labeling intersects the supply chain at all levels from production to distribution; 4) Technology advances like cloud computing are influencing how labeling solutions are deployed and accessed.
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SABMiller, a $24 billion brewing company, revamped its supply chain management system to address stock-outs of popular brands. The company implemented a new forecasting and planning system using Infor software to better integrate demand data from various sources and optimize production scheduling and profits. The new system is being tested in South Africa with plans to roll it out globally. It aims to reduce stock-outs, improve forecasting accuracy by 40%, and lower costs.
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This document provides information about solved assignments available for purchase from an online service. It lists the service's website and contact information, and provides sample assignments from an MBA production and operations management course, including questions on value engineering, supply chain management, and forecasting. The document contains case studies and questions for the learner to answer.
The document discusses the results of a survey of warehousing professionals about changes facing the industry over the next five years. It finds that warehouses are evolving from simple cost centers focused only on efficiency to growth centers that can drive business profits. Key changes include growing order volumes and SKU counts, increased automation, and a shift from basic to full-featured warehouse management systems. Both IT and operations professionals see the need for greater integration across warehouse systems and supply chain partners to achieve flawless order fulfillment.
The UK food and grocery retail market is expected to grow 3.2% in 2011, driven mainly by inflation while volume sales growth has slowed. Grocery retailers continue expanding store space despite slowing sales densities, opening almost twice as much new space in the next five years than between 2005-2010. Promotional activity is intensifying as retailers compete for market share, and building customer loyalty through more complex value propositions will be necessary to differentiate as promotions become embedded in the market. Online grocery sales continue growing but mainly transfer sales from stores, and improving delivery options like click-and-collect could help address concerns around delivery slots and charges preventing greater online usage.
This document discusses trends in enterprise labeling from a survey of 500 supply chain professionals. The top trends are: 1) Businesses are standardizing labeling for consistency and efficiency across global supply chains; 2) Labeling needs to be integrated with business systems and allow for dynamic, data-driven changes; 3) Labeling intersects the supply chain at all levels from production to distribution; 4) Technology advances like cloud computing are influencing how labeling solutions are deployed and accessed.
Watts Water Technologies provides a presentation on their company and investment thesis. They are a $1.5 billion global leader in residential and commercial water products with a balanced business model. A multi-year transformation is underway to strengthen their foundation and drive profitable growth through commercial, operational and innovation excellence. They are aligned to favorable macro trends in safety/regulation, energy efficiency and water conservation. Their balanced portfolio and strong cash flow position them to continue disciplined capital deployment.
Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Food & Beverage Companies 2017Lora Cecere
The document discusses trends in the food and beverage manufacturing industry from 2010-2016. It finds that while growth slowed during this period, metrics like inventory turns and operating margins remained stable. Companies responded by focusing on cost reductions but struggled with changing consumer demands and a shift in power to retailers.
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive discounted payments for their P&G receivables. Fibria Celulose, a Brazilian supplier of kraft pulp, joined the program in 2013 but was re-evaluating the costs and benefits of participating in the SCF program in the summer of 2015. The firm’s treasury group and its US country manager must decide whether to keep using the program and, if so, whether to keep their existing SCF banking relationship or start a new relationship with another global SCF bank.
Over the past several decades, manufacturing has gone through many profound changes. Globalization has resulted in a widely dispersed supply chain, opened up many new markets, introduced a new body of regulations, and greatly intensified competition. Customers today are more knowledgeable about their options, and more demanding of the companies they work with. They’re looking for high quality, delivery as promised, and lightning-fast responsiveness. Technology–automation, robotics, mass customization, 3D printing, the Internet of Things–is altering the production process in many ways.
Today, manufacturing has to move fast. Products become more rapidly obsolescent, and with shorter product lifecycles, manufacturers are less forgiving of hiccups in their supply and distribution chains. Factor in cyclical swings and slowdowns, and the picture becomes even more complex and challenging.
P&G is a large multinational consumer goods company that sells over 300 brands worldwide. It faces challenges with optimizing inventory across its large and complex global supply chain network. Implementing a multi-echelon inventory optimization system allowed P&G to minimize supply chain costs while achieving optimal service levels and inventory performance across its entire multi-stage supply chain network. This improvement to inventory management helped P&G operate more efficiently and make better operational decisions.
Procter & Gamble implemented several supply chain initiatives to reduce variability and improve responsiveness. Their Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) initiative involved collaborating with retailers to create a single shared forecast and order plan. Their Consumer Driven Supply Network (CDSN) used point-of-sale data and intelligent daily forecasting to produce products based on actual consumer demand. These initiatives helped P&G reduce out-of-stocks, cut response time, improve forecast accuracy, and increase sales and profits.
Procter & Gamble was looking to improve its supply chain to better meet consumer demand. It discovered that being out of stock cost it one sale in nine and retailers lose 11% of sales due to out of stock. Procter & Gamble also found that perfection is not necessary and effective collaboration can happen even with imperfect systems. It recommended securing management support, simplifying applications, avoiding overhauling internal systems, and leveraging information technology to build a smarter supply chain.
The document discusses how weather impacts retail supply chains. A survey of 240 supply chain managers found that weather was the third most important external factor driving consumer demand, after events/holidays and competitor activity. Weather, especially temperature, is used in short-term sales forecasting but respondents felt it could be better utilized. Those using paid weather data reported more benefits than those relying on free data, including better availability, sales forecasting, customer service and reduced waste. The document concludes that properly accounting for weather's influence on shopper behavior and demand planning is increasingly important for retailers.
Procter & Gamble tries to optimize inventory across its large, complex global supply chain. As one of the world's largest consumer goods companies with over 300 brands, P&G faces challenges managing inventory levels across its many suppliers, manufacturing facilities, and markets. P&G uses multi-echelon inventory optimization to holistically manage inventory levels across its entire supply chain network to minimize costs while achieving optimal service levels. This approach helps P&G coordinate inventory levels between different locations and stages in its supply chain.
New Reality Omnichannel new selling new supply chainTom Craig
Read about the new selling reality and what you must do to compete in this world of customer power, order delivery velocity, and the Perfect Order--all driven by strategic and weaponized Supply Chain Management. It will be about leaders and laggards.
Investigation of key triggers and pain-points that are affecting the adaptation decision within consumer goods companies to the growth of organized retail.
Chemical companies faced challenges in 2015 such as a strong dollar, slowing emerging economies, and cyclical downturns. Shareholder activists pressured companies to improve coherence in their business portfolios by divesting unrelated products. As markets matured, strategies of chasing existing molecules across the value chain and expanding into new adjacent products began to backfire. Companies need to evaluate their portfolios objectively and identify opportunities to improve coherence without compromising scale. Functional optimization efforts within companies also reached diminishing returns and impaired cross-functional performance, so companies must adopt an end-to-end perspective. Digital transformation through technologies that bring companies closer to customers will enable them to become true solutions providers.
The document outlines several challenges that companies face in managing their global supply chains. Key challenges include selecting strategic global suppliers, reducing supply chain costs while meeting customer demands, ensuring high product quality and safety, implementing lean initiatives, consolidating suppliers, accessing new technologies, reducing operating costs, managing omni-channel selling, responding to changing customer preferences, expanding into new markets, balancing trade-offs, dealing with increasing complexity, and fully understanding supplier capabilities. Taking proactive steps to address these challenges will help companies better serve customers, operate efficiently, and grow profitably.
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Watts Water Technologies provides a presentation on their company and investment thesis. They are a $1.5 billion global leader in residential and commercial water products with a balanced business model. A multi-year transformation is underway to strengthen their foundation and drive profitable growth through commercial, operational and innovation excellence. They are aligned to favorable macro trends in safety/regulation, energy efficiency and water conservation. Their balanced portfolio and strong cash flow position them to continue disciplined capital deployment.
Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Food & Beverage Companies 2017Lora Cecere
The document discusses trends in the food and beverage manufacturing industry from 2010-2016. It finds that while growth slowed during this period, metrics like inventory turns and operating margins remained stable. Companies responded by focusing on cost reductions but struggled with changing consumer demands and a shift in power to retailers.
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive discounted payments for their P&G receivables. Fibria Celulose, a Brazilian supplier of kraft pulp, joined the program in 2013 but was re-evaluating the costs and benefits of participating in the SCF program in the summer of 2015. The firm’s treasury group and its US country manager must decide whether to keep using the program and, if so, whether to keep their existing SCF banking relationship or start a new relationship with another global SCF bank.
Over the past several decades, manufacturing has gone through many profound changes. Globalization has resulted in a widely dispersed supply chain, opened up many new markets, introduced a new body of regulations, and greatly intensified competition. Customers today are more knowledgeable about their options, and more demanding of the companies they work with. They’re looking for high quality, delivery as promised, and lightning-fast responsiveness. Technology–automation, robotics, mass customization, 3D printing, the Internet of Things–is altering the production process in many ways.
Today, manufacturing has to move fast. Products become more rapidly obsolescent, and with shorter product lifecycles, manufacturers are less forgiving of hiccups in their supply and distribution chains. Factor in cyclical swings and slowdowns, and the picture becomes even more complex and challenging.
P&G is a large multinational consumer goods company that sells over 300 brands worldwide. It faces challenges with optimizing inventory across its large and complex global supply chain network. Implementing a multi-echelon inventory optimization system allowed P&G to minimize supply chain costs while achieving optimal service levels and inventory performance across its entire multi-stage supply chain network. This improvement to inventory management helped P&G operate more efficiently and make better operational decisions.
Procter & Gamble implemented several supply chain initiatives to reduce variability and improve responsiveness. Their Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) initiative involved collaborating with retailers to create a single shared forecast and order plan. Their Consumer Driven Supply Network (CDSN) used point-of-sale data and intelligent daily forecasting to produce products based on actual consumer demand. These initiatives helped P&G reduce out-of-stocks, cut response time, improve forecast accuracy, and increase sales and profits.
Procter & Gamble was looking to improve its supply chain to better meet consumer demand. It discovered that being out of stock cost it one sale in nine and retailers lose 11% of sales due to out of stock. Procter & Gamble also found that perfection is not necessary and effective collaboration can happen even with imperfect systems. It recommended securing management support, simplifying applications, avoiding overhauling internal systems, and leveraging information technology to build a smarter supply chain.
The document discusses how weather impacts retail supply chains. A survey of 240 supply chain managers found that weather was the third most important external factor driving consumer demand, after events/holidays and competitor activity. Weather, especially temperature, is used in short-term sales forecasting but respondents felt it could be better utilized. Those using paid weather data reported more benefits than those relying on free data, including better availability, sales forecasting, customer service and reduced waste. The document concludes that properly accounting for weather's influence on shopper behavior and demand planning is increasingly important for retailers.
Procter & Gamble tries to optimize inventory across its large, complex global supply chain. As one of the world's largest consumer goods companies with over 300 brands, P&G faces challenges managing inventory levels across its many suppliers, manufacturing facilities, and markets. P&G uses multi-echelon inventory optimization to holistically manage inventory levels across its entire supply chain network to minimize costs while achieving optimal service levels. This approach helps P&G coordinate inventory levels between different locations and stages in its supply chain.
New Reality Omnichannel new selling new supply chainTom Craig
Read about the new selling reality and what you must do to compete in this world of customer power, order delivery velocity, and the Perfect Order--all driven by strategic and weaponized Supply Chain Management. It will be about leaders and laggards.
Investigation of key triggers and pain-points that are affecting the adaptation decision within consumer goods companies to the growth of organized retail.
Chemical companies faced challenges in 2015 such as a strong dollar, slowing emerging economies, and cyclical downturns. Shareholder activists pressured companies to improve coherence in their business portfolios by divesting unrelated products. As markets matured, strategies of chasing existing molecules across the value chain and expanding into new adjacent products began to backfire. Companies need to evaluate their portfolios objectively and identify opportunities to improve coherence without compromising scale. Functional optimization efforts within companies also reached diminishing returns and impaired cross-functional performance, so companies must adopt an end-to-end perspective. Digital transformation through technologies that bring companies closer to customers will enable them to become true solutions providers.
The document outlines several challenges that companies face in managing their global supply chains. Key challenges include selecting strategic global suppliers, reducing supply chain costs while meeting customer demands, ensuring high product quality and safety, implementing lean initiatives, consolidating suppliers, accessing new technologies, reducing operating costs, managing omni-channel selling, responding to changing customer preferences, expanding into new markets, balancing trade-offs, dealing with increasing complexity, and fully understanding supplier capabilities. Taking proactive steps to address these challenges will help companies better serve customers, operate efficiently, and grow profitably.
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Nike is looking to improve its supply chain management. It aims to reduce inventory levels, increase data exchange speeds, and better meet customer demands. Nike plans to implement a new collaborative planning system to connect all parts of its global supply chain electronically. This will allow real-time sharing of production planning and order information between Nike, its suppliers, and factories. The new system is expected to help Nike deliver products with greater precision and flexibility while reducing inventory levels throughout the supply chain.
A new perspective devoted to forecasting: demand planning is a very challenging job, that is why multinationals manage forecasting poorly. How can they improve it?
This article discusses how businesses can improve their Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process by incorporating scenario planning using probabilistic planning, predictive analytics, and simulation to better address uncertainty, complexity, and risk. Currently, S&OP processes do not adequately account for these factors and can hide critical details. The article recommends using predictive analytics on demand data and scenario planning with quantitative methods to generate alternative plans and assess risks. This will help businesses better balance supply and demand when facing uncertainties.
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- Standard costing and variance analysis (SCVA) is becoming obsolete for Lean manufacturers as they transition to new performance metrics and value stream costing.
- While some companies have quickly discarded SCVA, many Lean manufacturers still use it due to outdated business school teachings, lack of accounting staff training in Lean methods, and challenges changing legacy ERP systems.
- Lean companies need performance metrics that provide real-time, work-cell level data to optimize production, such as metrics tracking productivity, quality, delivery times, safety, training, and 5S organization. Value stream costing and work-cell metrics provide a better way for Lean manufacturers to control production efficiencies.
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The document outlines a presentation about SAS, including an introduction to the company, customer success stories, the industries and products/solutions SAS serves, and a use case example. The presentation agenda includes an introduction to SAS, customer success stories from companies like Staples, the industries SAS works in such as retail, SAS products like Enterprise Miner, and a demo. The use case describes how SAS was used to develop a loyalty program for a company through customer segmentation, modeling shopping habits, and determining marketing actions.
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Smaller, nimbler competitors are capturing the majority of the growth in an industry that is being reshaped by fast-changing consumer trends. In order to remain competitive, companies are looking for ways to improve their brand and product portfolios. Some of the more innovative ones have started leveraging SKU Portfolio Optimization to fund profitable brand-building activities and invest in key near-term growth initiatives.
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Essere in grado di scambiare vicendevolmente le informazioni in azienda è un fattore chiave per rispondere al mercato. Per fare questo è assolutamente prioritario ottenere valori di forecast affidabili in grado di supportare un’efficiente pianificazione, in termini di fabbisogni, produzione e distribuzione.
L’elaborazione di un piano della domanda coerente e fattibile richiede una visione globale e condivisa tra le varie funzioni aziendali, la capacità di sfruttare tutte le informazioni disponibili, per arrivare a disporre del cosiddetto “one number” che permetta di basare la pianificazione futura (a breve, medio e lungo termine) con gli stessi valori per sales, marketing, operations ecc.
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MB 0044 - PRODUCTION AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT
1. What is value engineering? List the main benefits of value engineering?
A Definition and explanation of Value Engineering(VE)
Definition
Example/s
Where is it used?
Why is it used?
How is it helps the organisation?
Listing of the main benefits(any four):
Cost reduction
Overall costconsciousness
Culture of effecting savings across organisations
Streamlining of administration
Development of reliable suppliers
2. Case study: SABMiller revamps supply chain management
SABMilller, the $24bn global brewing giant, is revamping its supply chain management system to
reduce stock-outs caused by an increasingly complex and hard to predict market. The firm is
developing and testing the new system in South Africa with an eye on rolling it out to group
companies worldwide, says SABMiller programme manager Rudi van Schoor. The trigger for the
revamp came when the company's customers ran out of stocks of popular SABMiller brands during
peak periods in two consecutive years, 2007 and 2008. The shortfall on some brands was as high as
22%. "Thathad a direct impact on the bottom line," Van Schoor says.
Given SABMiller's ambition to be the world's most efficient producer, such a gap was never going to
be tolerated. But instead of addressing the symptom, it called in management consultancy
McKinsey to look at the entire supply chain system to see where it could be improved and future
stock-outsavoided.
The study revealed a complex situation, one that wasn't susceptible to a "quickfix", Van Schoor
says.
Demand factors
The ethnically and demographically diverse South African market is one of the world's most
complex and fast-changing. Van Schoor cites economic growth, more disposable income in new
hands, changing and upgrading tastes, new product development and new routes to market among
the factors that influence demand forSABMiller's products.
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Add to that big events such as the British Lions tour and the 2010 World Cup, and climate change,
and the picture becomes more complex.
"Our brands are the same as any other brand, especially those at the luxury end," says Van Schoor.
"If the customer comes into the shop and can't find our product, he or she has the disposable
income and self-confidenceto substitute our brand for our competitors'. That'sdangerous."
Van Scoor says the group has a average stock availability target of 98%. "But for some premium
brands the target is 100%," he says. That means it will live with excess stocks of some products, just
to ensure that a thirsty customer can get his or her favourite drink, every time.
Maximise profitability
But SABMiller also wants to maxmise its profitability. To do all this it must integrate information
from a lot of sources. These include sales forecasts for about 2,600 SKU locations or depots for the
brewing division and 3,100 for the soft drinks division, as well as planned promotions data from
the marketing and promotions division, as wellas cost and production data, among others.
These data must then be converted into raw material purchases, manufacturing scheduling,
distribution and stockholding plans for 12 factories (seven breweries and five soft drink plants)
and three tiers of distributors, broken down into between 70 and 80 stock-keeping units (skus) for
the brewing division and around 270 for softdrinks.
And all this must be optimised for profit.
"There is inherent volatilty of demand in the soft drinks business because of seasonal change, but
less in the beer market," Van Schoor says.
Even so, improving the accuracy of demand forecasts and schedules and integrating them to boost
profitability was too complex for SABMillers's demand forecast and supply system. The inhouse
system, developed over years, had most of the usual problems associated with legacy systems: it
was inflexible, complex, hard to communicate with, and hard to integrate with newer systems, Van
Schoor says.
Integration with SAP system
After a global search, SABMiller settled on Infor's advanced supply chain management system, in
particular Infor's demand forecasting system. This takes information from modules of SABMiller's
SAP enterprise resource management system, integrates them with sales forecasts from the field,
and feeds back to the manufacturing resource planning system and financial systems to generate
production schedules, raw materials orders and volumeand financial forecasts.
This will let SABMiller make any of its products in the most cost-effective location, given the local
demand, manufacturing, transport and inventory costs.
It will also increase its flexibility in responding to changes in demand. Products will no longer be
made only in a single plant to optimise production runs, but, based on more holistic data, in the
plants that optimise overall profitability.
This flexibility also gives the company greater cover to handle factory downtime and to meet rapid
changes in demand.
But some parts of the legacy system will still be around. "We are keeping it to manage the return
and reuse of empty bottles," Van Schoor says.
But even that data will go into the Infor system so that it can create production schedules down to
tank, line and minute accuracy.
This attention to detail is part of the SABMiller ethos. Measurement and numbers are integral to the
company culture. Van Schoor says the Infor system will be tested in three ways: on its "theoretical"
answers, against actual results, and against causal factors that may have influenced demand and
supply.
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Van Schoor says the $1.2m the firm spent on Infor licences was about 60% of the total project cost.
But this could be a drop in the ocean if the company adopts it worldwide. And interest from group
firms is high.
"We have used expertise from all around the group," Van Schoor says. "One of the best people on
the project came from our European division, and wehave lots of others keen to know how we do."
(Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Case-study-SABMiller-revamps-supply-
chainmanagement)
Why did SABMilller revamp its supply chain? Describe the domain application used for SCM
integration?
Analysis of the major and minor issues forrevamping the supply chain with evidence
Description of the SAP system, why it was used and the benefits from using the system
3 Write short notes on:
Ingredients of a business process
Acceptance sampling
WorkBreakdown Structure
Productivity
[Ingredients of a business process
Acceptance sampling
WorkBreakdown Structure
Productivity]
4 Collaborative Forecasting Running Smoothly at Brooks Sports
Brooks Sports designs and develops high-performance running footwear, apparel and accessories
which are sold in 80 countries worldwide. In 2001, when the company shifted from a broad product
line to focus on high-performance products targeted at serious runners, it was clear that the
forecasting process needed to change to support the strategic direction of the company. The
existing forecasting process, based entirely on the judgment of the sales team, was limiting the
company’s ability to grow.
The strategy shift created a number of forecasting challenges for Brooksincluding:
♦ Inconsistent style growth: the new line of products experience growth rates anywhere from 0 to
50 percent annually.
♦ Long production planning horizon coupled with short product life: production and capacity
decisions are typically made 18 months before a style is launched, average lead time for a style is 6
months and the product life of Brooks’ styles range from 6 to 24 months. This means that planners
must sometimes set the entire demand plan for a style prior to ever receiving a customer order,
underscoring the importance of accurate forecasts.
♦ Increasing “at-once” orders: “at once” orders, which are placed for immediate shipment,
historically accounted for less than 20 percent of total sales. Since 2001, however, “at once” orders
have increased to nearly 50 percent of total sales.
♦ Evolving size curves: with its new focus on serious runners, the standard footwear size curve
would not adequately reflect distribution of sales by sizes.
♦ No exposure to retail sell-through: the high-performance products are sold primarily through
independent specialty stores who don’t have the capability to share sales data withvendors.
With a corporate mandate from senior management emphasizing the importance of creating
accurate and timely forecasts, Brooks completely revamped its forecasting process. An independent
forecasting group, reporting directly to the COO and CFO, was established to coordinate input from
various groups—sales, marketing, product development and production— and to remove bias from
the forecasting process.
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The forecasting group established a collaborativeforecasting process with three primary steps:
Step 1: Produce monthly statistical forecasts at the SKU level to capture level, trend, seasonality and
the impact of events based on historical data. Brooks chose Forecast Pro to create these forecasts
due to a number of features available in the software:
♦ Ability to create accurate forecasts
♦ Flexibility to choose forecast models or let softwareautomatically select models
♦ Capability to model events (particularly important for predicting spikes in demand with new
product launches)
♦ Support for multiple-level models to produce consistent forecastsat all levels of aggregation
♦ Powerfuloverride facility to enable collaborativeforecasting
“Forecast Prohas been a great solution for Brooks,” says Tom Ross, Financial Analyst.
“Implementing Forecast Pro’s event modeling is very simple, which is an essential feature for us
because of our moving product launches. We also use event models to address the challenge of
forecasting events that don’t occur on a regular basis—such as races—which can have a dramatic
impact on the sales of specific products. Another powerful feature of Forecast Pro is the ability to
forecast a product hierarchy. This helps us to serve our multiple constituents within Brooks—we
review higher-level forecasts with management and easily generate detailed forecasts at the SKU
level fordemand planning.”
Step 2: On a quarterly basis, get sales management and sales reps to forecast sales for a 12- month
horizon, focusing on major accounts. This input is gathered via the Web and then aggregated by the
forecasting group.
Step 3: Compare the statistical and judgmental forecasts, and make adjustments to create the final
monthly forecast. Ninety percent of the final forecasts are the same as the statistical forecasts—
changes are most commonly made to the forecasts for new styles where the sales organization has
important knowledge to add. These final forecasts are then automatically fed into Brooks’ ERP
system. “Forecast Pro allows us to easily apply judgmental overrides, which is critical for us,” notes
Ross. “We now can systematically track changes, giving us a better understanding of our forecasting
performance.”
The commitment to forecasting has paid off at Brooks. Forecast accuracy has improved on average
by 40 percent, unfulfilled demand has been lowered from approximately 20 percent to less than 5
percent, and closeouts have been reduced by more than 60 percent. The improved forecasting has
also helped to smooth out production, resulting in lowered costs and better margins.
Source: http://www.forecastpro.com/pdfs/Success%20Story-Brooks%20Sports.pdf
What is the main issue of the case study? Analyse the forecasting solution
[Description of the main issue(forecasting process needed to change), forecasting Challenges
Evaluation of the collaborative forecasting process
Evaluation
Conclusion on whether the solution couldbe improved or not]
5. Explain the risk management and its various components
A Definition of risk management and what it entails
Description of the four components of risk management
Risk assessment
Risk control
Risk prioritising
Risk mitigation
6 Why redesign of layouts may be necessary? List the differences between product and process
layout.
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[Listing of reasons why resdesigning of existing layout is required
Listing of any five differences]
MB0045- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1 Capitalisation of a firm refers to the composition of its long –term funds debt and equity.
Discuss the theories of capitalization.
Explain each theory of capitalisation
2 A) The share of Megha Ltd is sold at Rs 500 a share. The dividend likely to be declared by the
company after one year is Rs 25 per share. Hence, the price after one year is expected to be Rs 550.
What is the return at the end of the year on the basis of likely dividend and price per share?
B) A bond of facevalue of Rs 1000 and a maturity of 3 years pays 15% interest annually. What is the
market price of the bond if YTMis also 15 %.
A Problem
B problem
3 Discuss the sources of capital of a company. Analyse the factorsthat affectthe capital structure.
a) Sources
b) Factors that affectthe capital structure
4 A projectcosts Rs 50,000. It is expected to generate cash inflowsas shown in table. If the risk free
rate is 10%, compute NPV.
Year Cash inflows Certainty equivalent
1 32000 0.9
2 27000 0.6
3 20000 0.5
4 10000 0.3
Compute NPV
5 a) Annual demand of a company is 30,000 units. The ordering costper order is Rs 20 (fixed) along
with a carrying cost og Rs 10 per unit per anum. The purchase cost per unit i.e., price per unit is Rs
32 per unit. Determine EOQ,total number of orders in a year and the time gap between twoorders.
a) EOQ
b) total number of orders in a year and
c)the time gap between two orders.
6 Discuss the dividend policy of Dabur India Ltd forthe last three years. Analyse the dividend policy
of Dabur India Ltd. For three years
Comment on dividend policy
MB0046- Marketing Management
1 Explain the steps in Business Buying process.
Characteristics of Organisational Buyer
Steps in business buying process
2 A brand is a composite set of beliefs and associations in the mind of consumers. In brand
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development, as a part of branding strategy decision, the brand manager can decide to create
new brand elements for the new products, apply some of the existing brand elements to the new
product, or use a combination of existing and new brand elements to the existing and new
products. Explain the different branding strategies used by the companies for their range of
products.
Definition of Brand
Advantages of Brand
Explanation of different branding strategies adopted by companies
3. Explain the classification of market based on nature of Competition and area.
Definition of market
Classification of market based on nature of Competition and area
4 Personal selling focuses in on ‘personal’ or ‘one to one’ selling. It involves an individual
salesman or a sales team establishing and building a profitable relationship with customers over
a period of time through a series of steps. Explain the steps in the personal selling process
which helps in the successful sales.
Definition of Personal Selling
Explanation of steps in the Personal selling process
5. Describe the stages in consumer decision making process.
Explanation of the stages in consumer decision making process
6. Do you think the argument of some theorists that the traditional Ps are not enough for
services marketing? Give suitable examples to prove your point.
Define Service Marketing
Explanation of 4p’s
Explanation of Additional 3 p’s
MB0047 – MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
1 Explain some of the essential features of modern organisation
Listing the features and Explaining each of them in brief 10 10
2 a. Explain First-order and second-order effects
b. Distinguish between hierarchy and matrix organisational structures
a. Explaining First-order and second-order effects5
b. Distinguish between hierarchy and matrix organisational structures
3 How to use information system to support competitive strategy? With an example explain each
strategy
5 strategy and use of information system 7
Examples foreach of the strategy 3 10
4 Briefly explain the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. What are the various
facilities created by CRM ?
Explaining CRM Systems 4
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Examples of various facilities created by CRM 6 10
5 Briefly explain the different aspects of the need fordatabase systems.
Explaining any eight aspects of the need for database systems
6 Write short notes on
a. Centralised IT management
b. Decentralised IT management
a. Explaining Centralised IT management 5 10
a. Explaining Decentralised IT management 5
MB0048 OPERATIONS RESEARCH
1 Describe the frameworkof Operations Research
List the seven stages of Operations Research
Briefly explain seven stages of Operations Research
2 a. Explain the graphical method of solving Linear Programming Problem.
b. A paper mill produces two grades of paper viz., X and Y. Because of raw material restrictions, it
cannot produce more than 400 tons of grade X paper and 300 tons of grade Y paper in a week.
There are 160 production hours in a week. It requires 0.20 and 0.40 hours to produce a ton of grade
X and Y papers. The mill earns a profit of Rs. 200 and Rs. 500 per ton of grade X and Y paper
respectively. Formulate this as a Linear Programming Problem.
[Meaning of Linear programming problem
Explanation of graphical method of solving Linear Programming Problem
Formulation of LPP (Objectivefunction& Constraints)]
3 a. Explain some of the important terms of the transportation problem.
b. Explain the steps of MODI(Modified Distribution) method.
a. List and briefly explain some of the important terms of the transportation problem
b. Describe the procedure of MODI method
4 a. Explain the steps involvedin Hungarian method of solving Assignment problems.
b. Find an optimal solution to an assignment problem withthe followingcost matrix:
JI J2 J3 J4
10 9 7 8
5 8 7 7
5 4 6 5
2 3 4 5
a. Steps in Hungarian method
b. Computation/Solution to the problem
5 a. Write a short note on Monte Carlo Simulation.
b. Hindustan Bakery is popular for its delicious fruit cakes. The table below shows the daily demand
for the bakery’s cakes.
Daily
demand
0 15 25 35 45 50
Probability 0.01 0.15 0.2 0.5 0.12 0.02
Simulate the demand forcakes for 10 days using the followingsequence of random numbers:
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22, 26, 48, 53, 93, 89, 42, 91, 25, 20
If 35 cakes are baked every day in Hindustan Bakery, determine the inventory stock. In addition,
estimate the daily average demand for cakes on the basis of simulated data.
a. Explanation of Monte Carlo Simulation
b. Calculation/ Solution to the problem
6 a. State the assumptions of game theory.
b. What are the characteristics of Markov chain?
c. What are the rules forprioritising jobs?
a.List the assumptions of game theory
b.List the characteristics of Markov chain
c.List and briefly explain the rules for prioritising jobs
MB 0049 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1 Explain the phases of project management life cycle.
Explanation of the 5 phases of projectmanagement
2 Write short notes on:
Economic feasibility of a project
Need forproject planning
Diversity management
Rules fornetwork construction
3 What are the key steps for effectiveriskmanagement?
Explain any FIVE risk identification techniques.
Outline of the steps in risk management
Description of any FIVE risk identification techniques
4 Write short notes on
Parametric estimating toolof costestimating
Procurement process
Projectteam’s responsibilities in projectexecution
Projecttermination
5 What is Quality planning? Explain the inputs, tools and techniques and outcomes of quality
planning.
Definition of quality planning
Description of the inputs to quality planning
Description of the tools and techniques to quality planning
Description of the outputs fromquality planning
6 Describe the various types of project performance evaluation techniques. List any FOUR benefits
of performance measurement and evaluation.
Description of the 4 types of project performance evaluation techniques
Listing of any 4 benefits performance measurement and evaluation
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