Consolidating Supply Chain for Tourism Employee Welfare Fund

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Executive summary
Supply chain management is one of the primary business functions. Just like accounting and
marketing function, supply chain involves a functional strategy, exclusive procedures and
functions. If business organization views its operations traditionally, the key benefit is
granted to the production of goods, finance and marketing, while other activities may be of
low priority. The functions of an organization in this case will be performed in non-
collaborative and disjointed manner, there will be limited scope of operations and the
management will tolerate external and internal neutrality functions. Nevertheless, if a
business organization apply a network supply strategy, all the activities will be integrated and
the scope of processes will be highly enhanced. The business activities will not only be
restricted to the materials management and production but also will involve management of
supplier relationship, physical distribution of goods and services and customer support. The
main purpose of writing this report is to discuss how Tourism Employee Welfare Fund
(TEWF) might consolidate its supply chain in order to the value of its customers and
guarantee their satisfaction. This paper will also evaluate the statement that logistics has
possibility of maximizing current and future viability through cost effective fulfilments of
orders.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
2.0 How TEWF might organize effective supply chain.............................................................4
Establishing a council to govern supply chain.......................................................................5
Properly staff and align supply chain.....................................................................................6
Adopt to the modern technology............................................................................................6
Establish treaties with the major supplier...............................................................................6
Employ in joint strategic sourcing..........................................................................................7
Concentrate more on Total Cost Ownership (TCO)...............................................................8
3.0 How logistics has got potential to exploit current and future profitability through cost
effective fulfilments of orders....................................................................................................8
a) The use of technology in logistics to record the client’s requirements...........................8
b) Adoption of third party logistics.....................................................................................9
c) The use of third-party logistics.......................................................................................9
d) Logistics help to minimise cost of production................................................................9
e) Logistics ensures flexibility of operations..........................................................................9
e) Technology breakthroughs..............................................................................................9
4.0 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................10
5.0 References..........................................................................................................................11

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1.0 Introduction
Tourist Employees Welfare is an organization under the ministry of tourism in Mauritius, it
has been set up under Tourism Employees Welfare Act of 2002. TEWF was initiated in order
to deliver for the economic and social welfare to employees that worked in tourism
enterprises. The main objective of this welfare fund is to set up projects and schemes and to
undertake other activities that are considered to be appropriate in endorsing the welfare of
employees of tourism sectors (Scandizzo, Cervigni & Ferrarese, 2018).
The TEWF worked in about 15 schemes which consist mainly the social grants. Education
grants and lending money to employees in order to advance their worth of life and educate
their children. TEWF also organize leisure activities and training programmes to assist it
members (Mahadew & Appadoo, 2018).
2.0 How TEWF might organize effective supply chain
For TEWF to gain competitive advantage, it will not only require to excel in its business
operations, but from managing its network which spans the organizations operations and
upstream and downstream operations. Since this is the era full of internetwork competition
TEWF need to understand the pattern of shift in the operation. The connection of both
upstream and downstream is what is known as supply chain. In other words ‘’supply chain is
the a set of three or more companies that are linked directly by one or more upstream or
downstream flows of products, services, finance and information from a source to a
consumer’’ (Papadopoulos, Gunasekaran, 2018).
How do organization attain best supply chain? The answer for this vary in different
companies, but there are some crucial practices that has been adopted by many best
performing companies. I will outline various ways in which TEWF will organize an effective