Supply Chain Process of Haygrove: A Case Study

This document is a case study on the supply chain process of Haygrove, a well-known organic berry grower with farms in UK, South Africa and Portugal. It covers their materials purchase, quality control, demand and supply planning, inventory control, inbound logistics and packaging, warehousing and distribution, and environmental policy. The document also provides recommendations to improve their carbon footprint.

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Chemistry/Management

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Table of Contents
Supply chain Process of Haygrove..................................................................................................3
Materials purchase.......................................................................................................................3
Quality Control............................................................................................................................3
Demand and supply planning......................................................................................................3
Inventory Control.........................................................................................................................3
Inbound Logistics and Packaging................................................................................................4
Warehousing and Distribution.....................................................................................................4
Environmental Policy......................................................................................................................4
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................5

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Supply chain Process of Haygrove
Haygrove Ltd. was established in the year 1987 and is well known organic berry grower with
farms in UK, South Africa and Portugal. Along with growing different kinds of berries, it also
designs, manufactures and supplier of products like field scale polytunnels, tunnels covers and
substrate systems. Haygrove operates from Ledbury in Herefordshire, UK (Haygrove, 2019a).
This horticultural company aims at producing soft fruits and develop technologies for poly
tunnels required to produce different berries in any climatic condition. The supply chain
management of Haygrove Ltd involves a large set of activities that are diverse in nature and
determines the efficiency and effectiveness of flow of information and goods.
Materials purchase
Purchasing of materials is a major supply chain activity of Haygrove. The company purchases its
metals, polyethene, supplies for growing organic berries, supplies for building the manufactured
components like Substrates required for the tunnels, steel frames, support legs, and other
requirements for growing berries (Haygrove, 2019b). The polythene and manufactured
componentry are primarily imported from UK market.
Quality Control
Haygrove works directly with its suppliers since organic farming and horticulture requires a
strict quality control. The company primarily grows berries and exports tunnels for growing
crops at any climatic condition. The manufacturing of polythene requires to be highly transparent
with low diffusion. This can be ensured using quality products from its suppliers.
Demand and supply planning
The anticipated demand forecasts, adjustments in the inventories, accepted but not filled orders,
and the after-market needs, and the spare part requirements are identified by the demand
planning of the company. The company has its logistics network, and production process in UK
itself to satisfy the requirements of demand.
Inventory Control

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The inventory level of finished goods is maintained as the demand for organic products is rising
in the market. Farm fresh products and organically grown fruits are in high demand in the current
scenario. Haygrove maintains its inventory level of finished goods emphasizing on the physical
distribution of goods in the supply chain. Their order processing process helps in creating a link
between the customer and the company.
Inbound Logistics and Packaging
Haygrove’s internal logistics team maintains its own refrigerated lorries to transport the produce
to multiple locations. The packaging facilities include packaging the fruits in appropriate
containers, bar-coded, labelled, processed and made shelf-ready before departing from produce
from the farms. As the fruits are grown both ecologically and traditionally, it has great demand in
UK and European supermarkets. The company also sells technologies which requires the
inbound logistics team will help in storing the products in warehouses and moving of products.
Warehousing and Distribution
The company keeps the stock of its inventories in its warehouses. The components used in the
manufacturing and production of the field scale polytunnels, tunnel covers, and substrates require
a lot of metal products which are stored in specialized warehouses to avoid any damage. Special
galvanized metals are also used in the production. The distribution of finished products includes
tunnels for farms, polythene for covering greenhouses and fully equipped polytunnels. These are
distributed to various countries as per the demand.
Environmental Policy
Haygrove is an organic berry grower and the environmental policy will help to initiate
environmental values as well as position of the company. It requires to follow the environmental
policy that comes under ISO 14001 standard. It states that the environmental performance of the
company will be expressed directly by the top management. The benefit that the company will
accomplish by initiating the environmental policy is that the potential clients will be able to
determine whether they require to continue the business with the company. The environmental
policy requires to be developed by the managing team. Haygrove should be responsible for
reviewing the environmental policy on a daily basis. This will provide the structure to set up an

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environmental target. The company requires to make sure that uninteresting statements are not
included in the environmental policy that requires to abide by the legal requirements.
Recommendation
Carbon footprint is defined as the total emission that is released by a company or an event as
well as an individual that is expressed equivalent to carbon dioxide. It is also regarded as the
total amount of greenhouse gas that is released in the atmosphere by a particular human activity.
The chairman of Haygrove should undertake measures that will aim to reduce carbon footprint.
This will help to reduce the overall premature death thus saving lives. In order to improve the
carbon footprint of Haygrove, it has been recommended to initiate a proper distribution channel
that will act as a striking strategy for the company. The measures require to analyze the overall
production system with regards to the environmental impact. The distribution channel requires to
provide a cautious attention to the pesticides as well as fertilizers that are used by Haygrove. It
has been recommended to develop their greenhouse growing. This involves developing media
that deals with a mixture of entities that provides support in the form of air, water as well as
nutrients. The carbon footprint requires to be lower in principle mostly when the soft fruits are
cultivated without using heat. It has been recommended to add a ratio of water that requires to
available for root uptake. The total amount of water that will be available relies on how strongly
the water has been held to the material particles. It has also been recommended to improve the
value of transportation in a business. In other words, transportation that is involved in
distribution of a product illustrates a considerable energy expenditure. This will help to make the
business work in an organized way thus improving their value. This will make sure that the
customer relationship that cost to the company will be eliminated. The business procedure will
also be established that will provide ability to the business to measure as well as refine the
procedure.

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Reference List
Haygrove, 2019a. Our History. Retrieved from https://www.haygrove.com/our-history/
Haygrove, 2019b. Field Scale Polytunnels. Retrieved
fromhttps://www.haygrove.com/polytunnels//