Operations Management: Supply Chain and Just-in-time System

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Section 1: Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain refers to the system of organization, people and information which is
involved in the process of moving a product from that of supplier to the customer. The
activities pertaining to supply chain helps in the transforming of the raw materials to finished
product that can be delivered to the end customer (Christopher, 2016). Supply Chain
Management refers to the managing of the flow of goods along with services from the point
of origin to point of consumption.
The supply chain of Coca Cola plays an integral part in relation to their business and
it helps in ensuring that the environment impact is minimised. Quality is laid stress in the
company and they have deployed continuum measurement that can help in moving their food
safety culture to the next level (Hugos, 2018).The suppliers of Coke provide it to the state
distributors who then circulates it to the super market chains. The supermarket chains then
distribute it to the local stores who helps in providing it to the end customer.
The supply chain managers have to face issues in daily basis that can affect their
business in various substantial ways. The supply chain managers have to know the number of
suppliers and the manner of handling delays. Globalization pertaining to the supply chain has
brought concerns pertaining to quality of products which is made in various countries
(Fredendall & Hill, 2016). This puts the companies at the risk of recall. The supply chain
managers have to ensure that the products maintain quality standard.

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The global issues pertaining to supply chain management arises because of the fact
that manufacturing process is not perfect. The industry needs to have certain quality
pertaining to the products. Complexity forms a part of the production process and the
unfamiliar sources not adhering to the defect level can give rise to a problem (Christopher,
2016).The firms have to experience issues in the event of dealing with the companies that are
on other side pertaining to the country. The purchasing of the items at that of a delivered
price can prove to be easy but the process of shipment being delayed can give rise to
problems (Brandenburg et al., 2014). The companies have to look at the aspect of social
compliance when they have to emerge into the field of global sourcing. The companies have
to abide by child labour practice, forced labour along with fair compensation practice.
Industry is moving from the traditional system to more automated methodology. The
automated systems prove to be efficient and they can help in providing better data capture.
There are various kinds of hand held mobile device that can help in the aspect of monitoring
real time transportation. It can help the managers in addressing the operational anomalies
(Chyr & Huang, 2016).The using of technology pertaining to Customer Relationship
Management can help in providing visibility pertaining to the supply chain operator.
Technology can help the leaders in identifying inefficiencies along with bottlenecks
pertaining to commercial operation.