Supply Chain Management Issues Faced by Dunsters Farm During COVID-19 Pandemic

BM561 Business
Consulting

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Client overview and its business environment mapping..................................................................1
Who is the client?...................................................................................................................1
Problem identification......................................................................................................................2
Summarising the problem they are facing..............................................................................2
Problem statement............................................................................................................................2
Using research, breaking the problem down by analysing and presenting areas of importance
to the client............................................................................................................................2
Problem issues trees.........................................................................................................................3
From the above analysis, what are the top three issues that the client is facing....................3
Problem prioritisation......................................................................................................................4
State clearly why
these issues has been ranked these as the top three...............................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
Business management refers to the planning and organising along with the staffing and
directing and also the controlling functions in order to work collaboratively to successfully run
the business. It is basically the administration of a commercial enterprise which includes some
aspects such as supervising and overseeing the operations of the business. The following
discussion is based on the case scenario of Dunsters farm organization who is facing the
challenge of growth for a supply chain of wholesaler in the covid 19 pandemic period. Supply
chain management refers to the monitoring and the management of flow of goods and services
among several businesses and locations in an efficient manner. It basically includes the storage
and movement of raw materials, work in progress inventory and finished goods as well. It
monitors the end to end order fulfilment which means that from the origin point to the
consumption point (Paul, Chowdhury, Moktadir and Lau, 2021). The below discussion is based
on the client overview and its business environment mapping, problem identification, problem
statement, problem issues trees and problem prioritisation as per the given scenario.
Client overview and its business environment mapping
Who is the client?
Client is Dunsters Farm. It is one of the small and medium enterprise proactive catering
food and drink supplier company which is established in 1954 and based in United Kingdom. It
deals with the products and services like it supplies the wide range of chilled and ambient food
and drinks to the consumers in the north side. There are various clients to which the company is
offering its products and services such as schools and hospitals along with the hotels and many
more. It has the size of staff of approximately 30 people. In the current pandemic, organization
has decided to increase the range of products to the vast variety in order to gain expansion in the
market place. They have adopted the diversification strategy n w the company has added the
fresh and frozen vegetables which has enabled the firm's current ambient and chilled product
line. This has resulted in increasing of the more clients and also the well maintained position in
the market place as well. But even after the too much of planning, organization still faces several
problems regarding its supply chain management in this current pandemic. The following
discussion is based on the problems faced by the company and its prioritisation (Butt, 2021).
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