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Transport and Inventory Management for Coca-Cola

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This report discusses the supply chain network, warehouse facilities, intermodal choices, and location decision of Coca-Cola. The company's unique system of supply chain management, warehouse facilities, and inventory management are explained. The report also compares different intermodal choices and explains the linkage between warehouse, inventory, and intermodal choice. The reasons and objectives for the location decision of Coca-Cola are also discussed.

Transport and Inventory Management for Coca-Cola

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Running Head: TRANSPORT AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENTTRANSPORT AND INVENTORYMANAGEMENT[Document subtitle]
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TRANSPORT AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT1Executive SummaryThe company Coca-Cola is the marketer, manufacturer, and retailer of the non-alcoholic beverage syrups and concentrates. Headquarter of the company is in Atlanta. Coca-Cola is being recognized as the extravagant brand. Coca-Cola markets four brands which include Fanta, Sprite,and Diet Coke, juices, coffee, sports and energy drinks. Further, the report will help in understanding the movement of the product and the network of the supply chain of the company.The facilities of the warehouse and the inventories of the Coca-Cola will also be explained below. The preferable usage of the intermodal choice is given for the company so that the company can generate more revenue. Further, the factors which the company has taken while making the decision for the location are also explained. The impact of the factors on the decision of the location are explained in detail for the better understanding. And the impact of current location of the company in the future expansion is also given. Therefore, the secondary information has been used which has been taken from the various research papers and the articles.
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TRANSPORT AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT2ContentsPART 1:........................................................................................................................................................3Product Movement and Supply Chain Network.................................................................................3Warehouse Facilities and Inventories..................................................................................................4Usage of Intermodal Choice..................................................................................................................6Linkage between Warehouse, Inventory, and the Intermodal Choice..............................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................9PART 2:......................................................................................................................................................11Reasons and Objectives for Location Decision..................................................................................11Impact of Factors on Facility Location..............................................................................................12Impact of Current Location on the Company’s Future Expansion.................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................14
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TRANSPORT AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT3PART 1:Product Movement and Supply Chain Network The Coca-Cola Company supervenes a unique and distinct system of supply chain management as the company yields syrup concentrate which is further sold to the bottlers across the globe. The company possesses the anchor bottler by the name Coca-Cola refreshments in North America. The other bottlers who have the contract with the Coca-Cola Company generate the finished products in bottles and cans from the concentrate in amalgamation with sweeteners and filtered water (Hofmann, E. 2013). After the production, the beverages are moved to sales and distribution centers by using the fleet of the bottlers of the commercial vehicles. The centers of the distribution are accountable for managing and storing the inventory consisting of distinct SKU and then dispatch them off to the retailers. Further, the bottlers sell, assort and merchandisethe product of Coca-Cola to the retail stores, restaurants, vending machines, distributors of food and service. The network of the supply chain is classified into various different levels. The company has ERP systems in order to trace the variation regularly at the global price (Johnsen et al., 2014).The below given diagram will clearly help in understanding the product movement by analyzing the supply chain network of the company Coca-Cola and being an individual I will mainly focus on the warehouse like the company also focuses on the warehouse so that the products are delivered on time to both the distributors and the buyers without getting damaged. (Nahmias et al., (2015).
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