Hershey Supply Chain
Transcript of Hershey Supply Chain
Identify and Determine Performance
• Cost-effective
• Flexible
• Raw material savings,
• Broad supply chain
• Product line rationalization
• Realignment of their manufacturing
• Distribution facilities
• Disciplined general & administrative
cost
control
Capacity Management
• is a process used to manage
information
technology (IT). Its primary goal is
to ensure that IT capacity meets
current and future business
requirements in a cost-effective
manner (Wikipedia, 2008)
Just-In-Time (JIT)
• Just-in-time is defined as an integrated set of
activities designaed to achieve high-
volume production using minimum
inventories of parts that arrive at the
workstation exactly when they are
needed. (Chase, 2006)
E-Business
Three areas are changed by
e-business
1. Business
2. Distribution
3. Payments
They become more interconnected
by the e-business, with accurately
updates and in real time.
Conclusion• Recognized that Hershey is cost-
effective & flexible
• explained the measures the amount of
outputs and inputs throughout the
product cycle
• Just-in-time helps the team
resourcefully to and successfully plan
scheduling , the flow throughout the
production process
• Hershey connect and communicate
globally.
References
Chase-Jacob, Aquillano. (2005). Operations Management for Completive Advantage Operations Strategy and Managing Change. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Retrieved on May 18, 2009HowStuffWorks, Inc. (2009). How Salt Works. Retrieved on May 19th, 2009 from http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/salt2.htm
Capacity management. (2008, September 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:25, May 28, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capacity_management&oldid=240659156