Supply Chain Strategies for Nina Van Diest Chocolatier: A Scenario Analysis

This essay explores the supply chain strategies for Nina Van Diest Chocolatier through a scenario analysis. It covers inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, outsourcing, forecasting, and sustainability. The essay also discusses the challenges faced by the company and suggests suitable solutions.

Essay

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Scenario Analysis.............................................................................................................................3
Supply chain strategies....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References .....................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Supply chain is the main strategy that supports business to expand the operations
successfully in market. The efficiency of companies supply depends upon the management
which operated the function. The above process take care to produce the production according to
meet up the public demand. It supports from logistic to raw material that has been used in
production of the product. It flows the goods from manufacturing line to targeted locations that
succours the company in increase the sale. It is a complete chain that include from planning to
manufacturing, sourcing to delivery of the product complete task rely on the team of supply
chain management. They also generates the network that provide the facility to return the
defective or unwanted product back to the company (de Vass, Shee and Miah, 2020).
Scenario Analysis
Effective management defines the above task in such manners that helps the individual
company to minimize time, and reduce the cost and resources in completion of such functions.
Hence, the above management play a major role in deliver companies operations effectively and
efficiently in their target market. In the given document report the supply chain strategy of
Nina Van Diest chocolatier is taken into consideration (Dehgani and Navimipour, 2019). For
the given case study analysis, several arguments were being taken into consideration in respect to
failure of supply chain management strategies and creation of countering strategies to cope up
with such failures and related challenges or problems.
Since, Nina Van Diest chocolatier capturing the global market and the problem is
arising in delivering the product according to public demand. Hence, the proper allocation of
warehouse and delivery route is to be requires to provide the product faster in targeted market.
Next stage of the model is marketing and sales that informs the audiences about products and
services that is delivering by the company (Hardy, Bhakoo and Maguire, 2020). Since the
company is offering its service in the global market with the wider range of audiences. Thus, the
promotional activity introduce the audience about their chocolates to buy that ultimately helps
into increasing the revenue of respective firm. The last step of the model is service that
introduce after sale service of product for consumer. Furthermore, comparing current situation
with the case study it can be said that, through adoption of supply chain management software it
can be said that given company have good chances for being succeeding in its working for

attainment of desired goals and objectives. Nina Van Diest chocolatier although created its
business expanding very quickly and overall the production
and supply chain has a number of problems and issues. As the company expands in the future,
Nina
Van Diest has to decide how it wants the company to be organized and create a robust supply
chain. As there are willing financial investors into the company, company needs to prove it has a
robust
plan detailing with firm's associated supply chain strategy.
Supply chain strategies
Supply chain strategies offers the businesses to reach the customers at global level and
provides the support to individual organisations into selection of wide range of raw material, new
employee for their operations. The mentioned strategy identifies the business logistics problems
that affects the company revenue for functions. It indefinites the potential problem such as issue
in poor service, product shortage in the market sue to which disappointing the buyers. Improvise
in allocation of products that helps in tracking the product by using several software. The
problems that affecting the Nina Van Diest chocolatier business can be cope up by developing
the effective strategies of supply chain management theories and relevant models.
The mentioned company activities can be classified by using appropriate model that
succours in transformation the process. The first activity that is inbound logistic helps the given
company in building the sustainable relation with supplier that creates an effective supply of raw
materials and important products that helps into built the product. Therefore, this logistic
activity prepare the planned path for eliminate the initiate problems that affecting the given
company suppliers problems. The next process that solve the company problem is operations,
this steps will give the idea to the company for that needed in creating the vegan chocolate.
Company facing the issue in meetup the public demand because of the operations ( Deng and
Jiang, 2019). Therefore, effective techniques and employee can resolve the issue of operations
by making the advance stocks for company successful operations. Further, the next step is
outbound logistics in defines the activities that supports in collecting , storing and distributing
the final product in global market. Supply chain management can supports the Nina Van Diest
chocolatier by offering the effective and fast services like pick up the defective product from
buyers as well as retailers (Case study, Supply chain- Nina Van Diest chocolatier).

Outsourcing production can benefits the company position. It helps into reducing the cost
and minimize the use of resources that ultimately uplifts profit margin. By applying the strategy
in Nina Van Diest chocolatier the cost of several operations can minimize i.e., training the staff
for making the product, labour cost, and management time and leaves taken by management. The
company can cope up by several issues that arises in its operations by applying the given source.
Additionally by applying above approach company can seamlessly scale up or down their
production according to the unpredicted demand. It provides the free hand to mentioned
company on reacting to the changing market ( Jia and et.al., 2020). The next benefit is that the
mentioned company can reduce the equipment cost by taken into the consideration of above
model. It is seen that because of old equipments company faced several issues in run the
production line which declined the production. Therefore, by outsourcing the production unit
can solve the listed issue. On other hand several disadvantages has been recorded in applying the
above decision such as lack of control, communication issue, fear of quality issue (Case study,
Supply chain- Nina Van Diest chocolatier). If the mentioned company outsource their business
then these several issues also stated with it. The quality concern could be the foremost issue that
they can be face . Because, it is difficult to find the ideal manufacturing factory that produces
quality product according to given norms. Therefore, the presented disadvantages were crucial
points to consider for Nina Van Diest chocolatier in terms of regulating outsourcing process
( Kot, Goldbach and Ślusarczyk, 2018).
The outsourcing of supply chain can give several advantage to Nina Van Diest
chocolatier and can offer better result in operating the business. The given company faces the
issue of expert in supply chain that deliberately affected sales. The issue can be solved by using
the above model that helps in provide the expert team which sustainable improve the company
performance. Secondly, work can be done quickly and faster that will counter the fear of timely
deliverable of products (Case study, Supply chain- Nina Van Diest chocolatier). The outsourced
SCM also take the initiative into supplying the number of products demanded by customers in a
low cost that will enhance the mentioned company to cope up with issue of customer demand as
well as expensive delivery. On contrary, there are several disadvantages that can be faced during
initiate the outsourced SCM i.e., quality can be diminish by using the cheap material by third
party, the chances of setbacks can be arises like unrealistic timelines which can develop the
revenue loss ( Liu and et.al., 2018).

Logistic outsourcing benefits the company functions by eliminates complexity from the
deliveries of product to customers. Nina Van Diest chocolatier can boost their deliveries by
outsourcing their logistics. It saves the time, money and effort in company operations.
Professional outsource provide the real time product tracking by CRM system that offers the
complete control over checking the real time position, it cure the company problem in finding
original source of products. The mentioned approach also reduces the burden of paperwork that
is necessary in shipping the product globally. The major drawback of outsourcing the logistic is
lack connection between outsourcing agent that comply the serious issues like late delivery and
waste of resources etc ( Taboada and Shee, 2021).
The data has shown that Nina Van Diest chocolatier were unable to cope the demand of
its customers therefore a suitable sales model required to fulfil the orders. By analysing the
previous data a proper supply chain management model is made to counter the targted sales
effectively in global market. By analysing the quantitative techniques, times series analysis and
casual models methods to forecast the mentioned company sales. The above techniques can
solve the issue by developing the suitable pattern in manufacturing the product to cope the global
demand and accelerate the sales. By developing the outsource production unit the issue of large
manufacturing can solve as well as the new machinery techniques uses by third party can
produce the number of products in short span of time. The shifting of production unit can cure
the overtime work. The listing, estimation and product cost gives the proper assumption and
opportunity to company to fulfil the arises demand ( Luthra and Mangla, 2018). By developing
the proper planning company can produce the product in advance. Therefore the forecasting of
sales helps the company to produce the product in advance that gives the benefits of shipping the
product to the local partners. The applying of above forecast impact the working of downstream
suppliers, they can perform their task more efficiently in distribute the product to its potential
customers with the real demand data which leads to succours the company by dead stock. The
above mentioned practice gives option to company to choose the cost effective method to ship
their global order in a low cost price and saves from high cost delivery. Therefore, the
forecasting of sales can solve the production problem and will boost the company revenue
(Maditati And et.al., 2018).
Supply chain sustainability derives the efforts that is taken by the company in regarding
to environment by using the sustainable approaches in operations. The aim is to minimize the

harm to environment factors like energy saving, less use of water and other practice that reduces
the environmental harm. These type of approaches put positive impact on people which
indirectly helps into establishing strong brand integrity value that helps into generate the decent
revenue. Reflecting to case study respective company wants to completely rely on using the
sustainable approach in its supply chain that produces zero impact on environment. The company
should arrange the complete integrated supply management process that ensures to use only
sustainable practice across their operations. i.e., the supplier should follow the cascade suitable
practice in generating Nina Van Diest chocolatier . A tier system, should develop in which
monitor the factors from production, packaging to delivery of the product all should be done in
sustainable manner. As observed in the case study one of the supplier uses the non- recycled
plastic material in developing the plastic trays for chocolates that is completely against the
company policy ( Wang, Zhang and Zhang, 2020). As provided in case study, Fairtrade suppliers
or even purchasing the Coco bean directly framers in developing countries, but this would add
complexity
and longer lead time to the supply chain. Therefore the integrated supplier is to be needed for the
company supply chain management that can provides the complete information regarding uses
in development process. For solving the issue of traceability company can follow block chain
and other tracking technology that solve the problem of tractability of product. By applying such
practice in business respective company can cope their issue of sustainability and can track all
the activities like materials used in making the sustainable card board, environment friendly
material use in packaging of product, material uses in shipping of product in global market all
can concur by using such suitable technology. Such above practice could help the company in
putting brand image that gives the competitive advantages. It could boosts the global sale and
revenue of company ( Micheli And et.al., 2020).
According to Tucker Bailey et. al., (2019), various organisational firm are being rocked
due to presence of high complexities and uncertain business environment. Several industries
dealing in consumer, automotive and electronics have to have difficulties in regards to frequent
changes that are being observed in the operational environment of the firm. The scope of
practical supply chain risk management had risen over period of time. Reflecting to provided
case study, derivates of structured approach of supply chain risk management can be followed to

pull greater efficiency from related operations produced in the operational firm (A practical
approach to supply-chain risk management, 2019).
Through provided approach, identification of known and unknown risks are to be
classified in respective operational firm. In process being several arrangement of performing
market researches are to be performed in respect to find such risks. This would lead respective
organisation to begin with the first stage of approach. The foremost step for the approach relates
to documenting the identified risk i.e. known risk. For next step establishment of supply chain
risk management framework is being regulated. In the provided framework usage of risk
assessment techniques and several documents being produced in the above stage will be taken
into consideration ( Singh, Shukla and Mishra, 2018). Further, in the approach next step states
about monitoring of risk. Under the technique considering standards of risk management
framework all related activities of the operational firm are being observed and monitored.
Successful mAs a token gesture to placate international opinion, German authorities allowed the
star fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany at the Olympic Games in Berlin. Mayer was
viewed as a “non-Aryan” because her father was Jewish. She won a silver medal in women's
individual fencing and, like all other medalists for Germany, gave the Nazi salute on the podium.
No other Jewish athlete competed for Germany in the Summer Games.
onitoring system will enable operational firm to cover its associate risks factors and minimise its
damage cost to an organisation. Lastly, the said approach concludes with keeping periodic
review over supply chain risk management in respect to provide agility, mitigating actions and
resilience for supply chain ( Roßmann and et.al, 2018).
Further evaluation towards management of unknown risk is an inclusion of considering
factor like; building strong defences which includes building risk aware culture through
transparency, acknowledgement and responsiveness. As such risks are unknown and can be
appeared through any medium at any time. Therefore, building strong defence for institution will
prove to be appropriate technique to management risk. In the process being keeping reserves and
flexible operational policies can prove to be useful. Reflecting to the case study taking
considerations of such risk would enable business firm to operate their supply chain management
operations towards effective direction.
Advancement of technology have lead career of business corporates in limitless scope of
working. Such advancement have guided the way of approaching to desired aims and objectives

of business enterprise in most effective manner or method of their achievement. Reflecting to the
provided case study of "Nina Van Diest chocolatier" due to ineffective process of supply chain
management strategies respective firm faced some challenges that as a result degraded
productivity of company. Therefore, adopting suitable technology would enable company to
filter its supply chain and would propose better or effective techniques to regulate operations
under the specified method ( Silvestre And et.al., 2018).
According to a blog Emerging Technologies in Supply Chain Management, (2020), for
staying competitive in supply chain management highly demands use of advanced technology to
govern or regulate the relevant operations. Big data is one of the crucial technology tool that is
helpful to develop better standards of working in corporate firm. In its evaluation, in light to the
fact each minute 4.5 million searches are entered in Google and 188 million emails are sent.
Such data can prove to be hard to analysed, however using techniques of big data can simply the
process. Furthermore, by adopting to advanced supply chain management software will enable
firm to stay competitive and regulate effective flow of operations in respective corporate. The so
designed software enables with better productivity for the given firm as to comply with lesser
mistakes and removal of complexities while operating (Emerging Technologies in Supply Chain
Management, 2020).
Conclusion
From the above report essay, it can be concluded that, supply chain management strategy
plays a vital role in ensuring smooth running of business operations. As reflected in the above
case study, it can be said that, respective company faced various difficulties and challenges in
respect to their ineffective supply chain management strategy. On the other hand, as the given
organisation performed well in various other operational work and had good brand image in its
operational marketplace, however due to ineffective supply chain management strategy,
productivity of respective corporate was being affected. The presented report evaluates on
possible actions that could be taken in respect to develop effective productivity of the firm with
application of appropriate supply chain management strategies.
In respect to the above analysis of report essay, there are several recommendations that
can be drawn with respect to raise productivity of the firm. On the basis of the academic
research, finding dependent suppliers could prove to be effective approach for enabling with
better productivity of the firm. In the process being finding appropriate suppliers for the

production firm will equip better governance of supply chain operations in the respective
company. Next recommendation over the issue faced by company in respect to its ineffective
supply chain management relates to adopting policy of continuous management. Under this
policy respective company's operations will be bound with policies of continuous improvement
in which further enhancement of the operational work in the company will be focused. In
addition to this, creative or innovative methods to perform operational tasks in the operational
firm will be marked as an effective standard for providing to be productive firm.

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Supply chain
- Nina Van Diest chocolatier. [Case study]