Monday, May 20, 2019

Seven Eleven Case

http//zh. scribd. com/doc/45901851/Study-Questions-2 Questions 1. A CONVENIENCE STORE chemical chain ATTEMPTS TO BE RESPONSIVE AND PROVIDECUSTOMERS WHAT THEY affect, WHEN THEY NEED IT, WHERE THEY NEED IT. WHAT be roughly DIFFERENT WAYS THAT A CONVENIENCE STORE SUPPLY CHAIN CAN BERESPONSIVE? WHAT be SOME RISKS IN EACH CASE? 1. 1 As responsiveness increases, the convenience broth filament is exposed to greater uncertainty. A convenience computer storage drawstring rear improve responsiveness to this uncertainty employ ace of the following strategies, especi eithery for fresh and fast foodsLocal Capacity. The convenience shophouse chain fundament erect local cooking capacity at the stick ins and assemble foods al virtu anyy on demand. lineage would be farm animald as raw material. This is seen at the U. S. fast-food restaurant franchise Sub modality whither dinner and lunch sandwiches ar assembled on demand. The master(prenominal) lay on the line with this approach is that capacity is decentralized, leading to poorer utilization. Local Inventory. Another approach is to adopt every last(predicate) document available at the store at all durations. This allows for the centralization of cooking capacity.The main(prenominal) risk is obsolete caudex and the need for extra billet. Rapid Replenishment. Another approach is to sterilize up rapid substitution and planning the stores with what they need when they need it. This allows for centralization of cooking capacity and low levels of inventory, scarcely increases the embody of replenishment and receiving. 1. 2 As responsiveness increases, the convenience store chain is exposed to greater uncertainty. A convenience store chain can improve responsiveness to this uncertainty using one of the following strategies, especially for fresh and fast foods1. Local Capacity.The convenience store chain can provide local cooking capacity at the stores and assemble foods almost on demand. Inventory wo uld be stored as raw material. This is seen at the U. S. fast-food restaurant franchise Subway where dinner and lunch sandwiches argon assembled on demand. The main risk with this approach is that capacity is decentralized, leading to poorer utilization. 2. Local Inventory Another approach is to pose all inventory available at the store at all times. This allows for the centralization of cooking capacity. The main risk is obsolete inventory and the need for extra space. . Rapid Replenishment Another approach is to set up rapid replenishment and supply the stores with what they need when they need it. This allows for centralization of cooking capacity and low levels of inventory, notwithstanding increases the cost of replenishment and receiving. From the case study, S blush- 11 lacquer Co. had provided their nodes a variety of service that is difference responsive way from usual convenience store concept. 1. 7dream. com vii- 11 Japan complete an e-commerce company which their cu stomer can choose the convergence at home and pick the yield at the store.Be understanding from the survey, 92% of its customers preferred to pick up their online barter for at the local convenience store rather than have them exileed at home. Since S however-football team Japan have the dissemination outline that conforms with these drop and pick up agreement. So Seven-football team serve as drop-off and collection transports for Japanese people. Instead of providing customers at that time the need is happen, the customers can choose the product at home and then(prenominal) pick up the product later at the store.The risk of this case is normally Seven-Eleven Japan established this organisation as a way to derive turn a profit from the existing distribution organization. If in the coming(prenominal) this establishment is popular among the Japanese, the capacity of the existing distribution system whitethorn not be generous to serve the customers such as a space to st orage the inviolables waiting for customers to pick up (the store in Japan is smaller than other country)2. In-Store Payment Instead of selling household goods, food and groceries, a convenience store can be responsive as a payment spot.Seven-Eleven Japan land a variety of services that customers can obtain at its stores for example an in-store payment of Tokyo galvanic Power bills, gas, insurance premiums, and telephone. In secernate to attracted millions of additional customers every year and take advantage of interruption hour and number of stores to service customer. The risk of this case is when the company adopt this service every Seven-Eleven store Japan have to link with the information of the payment such as electric bill. If the employees not to the full understand how the ystem works, he or she ordain misunderstand and take too long to serve customer. prove in demoralise customer satisfaction and can link to overall brand dissatisfaction. Some customer provide stop buying at Seven-Eleven because the long waiting time. 2. SEVEN-ELEVENS SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IN JAPAN CAN BE DESCRIBED ASATTEMPTING TO MICRO-MATCH SUPPLY AND DEMAND USING RAPID REPLENISHMENT. WHAT ARE SOME RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CHOICE? 2. 1The main risk for Seven-Eleven is the potentially mettlesome cost of transportation and receiving at stores. 2. By using rapid replenishment system, Seven-Eleven Japan store can manage lower inventory in the store and higher shelf space available. This fit for Seven-Eleven in Japan because of smaller size of the store. But it simmer down have some risk in case of a very fluctuated demand, when the demand raise to a very high level the inventory that the store stock might not be sufficient to serve customers demand. This situation go forth lead to loss of a sales agreement and lower customers satisfaction. The rapid replenishment is a core concept to lean thinking.Its how you can manage the menses of inventory and how you can shorte n the troll time between each pitching. Which mean seven 11 ordain deliver more often and the quantity of the product between each deliver will depend on the demand of the customer that forecast from the Point Of Sale and previous Data. It allowed seven eleven to be able to overlook their inventory level because when they deliver more often they can deliver just few amounts at a time. Therefore there are likewise some risks associated with this system.First, even though the rapid replenishment is a good system but the cost of replenishing and receiving is high. Its because the system that require to put the rapid replenishment go efficient, for example they have to install the point of sale system to kick in the sale entropy to the dc and supplier so they can deliver the good that fit for the curtain demand. For the receiving they also have to have the product scanner to scan the product when it arrives to the store. maxly of that equipment thats required will raise the cost of the replenishing and receiving.Furthermore, the receiving cost also high because of the number of the sales talk that higher too. Second, even though rapid replenishment helps seven eleven to maintain their inventory level that drive by the demand of the customer, to save their inventory cost. Sometime it might be risk in the shorten of inventory(backlogs) because when seven eleven tried to micro match the demand and supply, seven eleven have to rely on the past purchasing data and the point of sale data. To be able to generate the demand forecast to deliver the product to each of seven eleven chain store.What if the demand has become so fluctuate to the point that it over their inventory level, that time seven eleven will be suffer from the empty shelf. As you know that the favorite items from seven eleven are such as lunch cuff, rice ball and sandwich, so most likely if the consumer come during the high demand wont have the food to consume. So most likely the consumer wi ll go to other convenience store to buy the food to serve their need in that curtain time. If this scenario happen more that few time, the consumer most likely to switch the convenient store.Thats why this is also the risk that seven eleven has to subject and try to overcome in company to maintain their competitive advantage. Third, the risk that they have to face is that they will not have the economics of scale in production because when they apply the rapid replenishment, the suppliers will plainly produce the product to match the need of the store when they need it. They wont produce the similar item for the large amount, which is if they produce in that way they wont have to suffer from the set up cost in each batch that they have to produce.Fourth, even though the rapid replenishment will lower the transportation but seven eleven still have to concern closely the gas price because if the gas price raise it will again increase their surgical procedure cost. thusly again seven eleven wont be able to raise their product price to serve that cost too due to the incentive competition in the convenience market. Fifth, Due to the system that when the trucks deliver the product to the store, there will be only the store people who scan and investigate the product in to the system. There will be no way of detecting the feud.The replenishment system worked on trust and did not require the language person to be pre displace when the store force s tin in the lecture. This is a very risky system because store personnel whitethorn stoles the products. It can cause company loss in a million. 3. WHAT HAS SEVEN-ELEVEN DONE IN ITS CHOICE OF FACILITY LOCATION, INVENTORYMANAGEMENT, TRANSPORTATION, AND INFORMATION understructure TO DEVELOPCAPABILITIES THAT SUPPORT ITS SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IN JAPAN? 3 .1 All plectrons made by Seven-Eleven are structured to lower its transportation and receiving costs.For example, its area-dominance strategy of opening at least 5 0 to 60 stores in an area helps with marketing butalso lowers the cost of replenishment. All manufacturing facilities are centralized to get the maximum benefit of capacity aggregation and also lower the inbound transportation cost from the manufacturer to thedistribution center (DC). Seven-Eleven also requires all suppliers to deliver to the DC where products aresorted by temperature. This reduces the outbound transportation cost because of aggregation of deliveriesacross multiple suppliers. It also lowers the receiving cost.The information infrastructure is set up to allowstore managers to place orders based on analysis of consumption data. The information infrastructure alsofacilitates the sorting of an order at the DC and receiving of the order at the store. The key point toemphasize here is that most decisions by Seven-Eleven are structured to aggregate transportation andreceiving to make both cheaper. 3 .2 ? plectrum in the entire map of Japan is not our priority. Instead, we look for demand where Seven-Eleven storesalready exist, based on our implicit in(p) area dominance strategy of concentrating stores in limited areas.? hisabove statement shown that to ensure that the support of Seven-Eleven Japans facility location to its supply chain strategy, Seven-Eleven Japan has based its fundamental network expansion insurance on a market dominancestrategy. Wherever Seven-Eleven Japan entries into any new market, it was built around a cluster of 50 60 storessupported by a distribution center. The main reason of applying cluster strategy, it is that glob gave Seven-Eleven Japan a high-density market presence and allowed it to operate an efficient distribution system.There areseveral benefits of implementing the market-dominance strategy including such as boosting distributionefficiency, improved brand awareness, increasing the system efficiency, enhancing efficiency of franchise supportservices, improving advertising utileness and preventing competitors mesmerize into the dominant area. For inventory management, what Seven-Eleven Japan had do to develop capability that support its supply chain strategy is to offer its stores a choice from a set of 5,000 stock keeping units and each store could concur onaverage about 3,000 stock keeping units depending upon the local customer demand.Seven-Eleven emphasizedregional merchandizing to cater precisely to local preferences. Each store carries food items, beverages,magazines, and consumer items such as soaps, detergents, etc. The highest generated sale of Seven-Eleven is under food category, and under Seven-Eleven Japan concept, thefood items were categorise in four broad categories including Chilled items such as sandwiches, delicatessenproducts, and milk Warm items such as box lunches, rice balls, and fresh bread Frozen items such as ice-cream,frozen foods, and ice cubes and Room-temperature items such as canned food, instant noodles, and seasonings.The efficiency in managing the inv entory of Seven Eleven Japan could be proved by the resulted of inventory turnover rate is equal to over 50 when comparing to the second largest Seven Eleven in the United States is only about 17 in 2003. For transportation or distribution system of Seven Eleven Japan, the system was tightly linked the entire supply chain for all product categories as Seven Eleven distribution centers and the information network played a key use of goods and services in that regard.Its main objective is to carefully track sales of items and offer short replenishment cycle times. In 1987, Seven Eleven Japan had offered three times daily store bringing of all rice dishes and twice a twenty-four hours for freshfood. Its distribution system was flexible enough to alter spoken language schedules depending on customer demand. When a store placed an order, it was immediately transmitted to the supplier as wellhead as the distribution center. The supplier received orders from all Seven Eleven stores an d started production to fill the orders.The supplierthen sent the orders by truck to the distribution center. The key to store address was what Seven Eleven calledthe feature delivery system. At the distribution center, delivery of like products from different suppliers was directed into a single temperaturecontrolled truck. There were four categories of temperature-controlled trucks such as frozen foods, chilled food,room temperature processed foods, and warm foods. The number of stores per truck depended on the sales volume.The system worked on trust and did not require the delivery person to be present when the storepersonnel scanned in the delivery this helps to reduce the delivery time spent at each store. Based on theinformation, it shown that Seven Eleven has continuously improve its transportation and distribution system,since 1974, there were 70 vehicles visited each store every day but later on in 1994, there were only 11 vehiclesnecessary. This dramatically reduced deli very costs and enabled rapid delivery of a variety of fresh foods.In2004, Seven Eleven Japan had a total of 290 dedicated manufacturing plants through with(predicate)out the country that only produced fast food for Seven Eleven stores. The items were distributed through 293 dedicated distributioncenters that ensure rapid and reliable delivery. None of there distribution centers carried any inventory, they merely transferred inventory from supplier trucks to Seven Eleven distribution trucks. Transfleet Ltd. , a company set up by Mitsui and Co. for exclusive use of Seven Eleven Japan, provided this transportation.For information infrastructure, Seven Eleven Japan attributed a significant decompose of its success to the TotalInformation System installed in every outlet network linking the head office, stores, and the Seven Elevendistribution centers. Until July 1991, only a traditional analog network linked these chains. Later on, anintegrated services digital network or ISDN was ins talled, linking more than 5,000 stores it became one of the worlds largest ISDN system. This system enables Seven Eleven to collect, process, and feed back point of salesdata quickly. gross sales data generated in each stores by 11. 0p. m. , was processed and ready for analysis the nextmorning. In 1997, Seven Eleven Japan was chisel ind its fifth generation of the Total Information System, which was stillin use in 2004, the hardware system include as the following Graphic Order Terminal, this was a handleddevice with a wide-screen graphic display, use by the store owner or manager to place the order. Once all theorders were placed, the terminal was returned to its slot, at which point the orders were relayed by the storecomputer to both the appropriate vendor and the Seven Eleven distribution center.Scanned Terminal, thesescanners read bar codes and save inventory. They were used to receive product coming in from a distribution center. This was then automatically check over agai nst a previously placed order and the two were reconciled. Thisscanner terminal was also used when examining inventory at stores. Store Computer, this linked to the ISDN network, the POS register, the graphic order terminal, and the scannerterminal. It communicated between the various input sources, tracked store inventory and sales, places orders,provided detailed analysis of POS data, and maintained and regulated store equipment.POS register this POSdata was automatically transmitted online to a troops computer. All sales data collected by 11. 00p. m. was organizedand ready for analysis by the next morning. The data was evaluated on a company wide, district, and store basis. Due to Seven Eleven done in its choice of information infrastructure to develop capability that support its supply chain strategy, the information system allowed Seven Eleven store to better match supply with demand. Storestaff could adjust the merchandising mix on the shelves harmonize to consumption pattern s throughout the day.The identification of slow and non-moving items also allowed a store to convert shelf space to introduce new items. 4. SEVEN-ELEVEN DOES NOT ALLOW DIRECT STORE DELIVERY IN JAPAN, WITH ALLPRODUCTS FLOWING through ITS DISTRIBUTION CENTER. WHAT BENEFIT DOES SEVEN-ELEVEN DERIVE FROM THIS POLICY? WHEN IS DIRECT STORE DELIVERY MOREAPPROPRIATE? 4. 1 Direct store delivery (DSD) would lower the utilization of the outbound trucks from the Seven-ElevenDC. It would also increase the receiving costs at the stores because of the increased deliveries.Thus,Seven-Eleven forces all suppliers to come in through the DC. DSD is most appropriate when stores arelarge and nearly-full truck load quantities are coming from a supplier to a store. This was the case, for example, in large U. S. Home Depot stores. For smaller stores it is almost always safe to have anintermediate aggregation point to lower the cost of freight. In fact, Home Depot itself is setting up theseintermediate faci lities for its new stores that are often smaller. 4. There has been useful advantage of Seven-Eleven upon CDC and DSD as the centers allow smoothing of distribution operation to the stores and the provision of better quality and better information on supply anddeliveries is available and there was control of the supply chain as achieved. The presence of technology like theadaptation of the POS system can possibly exit ahead and do aid the store employment and managementsituation by freeing up staff time. Seven-Eleven U. S. has begun introduce the Combined Distribution Center daily delivery of fresh-prepared foodsaround 2000.By partnering with multiple food companies, the convenience retailer will be able to offer fresh-made-daily and delivered-fresh-daily pastries, gourmet sandwiches, wraps, entrees, as well as other perishableand ready-to-eat foods once a day. This was a challenge because the CDCs are operated by several different third-party partners, and Seven-Eleven felt it did not have effective metrics for comparing performance to a reliable benchmark. This was due to many factors, including different facility sizes, twist layouts and the variety of products handled by each CDC. pros yAdded choices to customers in perishable consuming. Seven-Eleven can add other specialty items to its selectionsuch as fruit salads, seasonal whole and cut fruit, fresh-squeezed juices and produce from a farmers market. Theconsumers can soft get the fresh perishable products near their house. y Daily delivery means just that Seven-Eleven stores can place orders to the CDC and get fresh product by sortingfor delivery to stores at every night y With the companys proprietary retail information system, each store can customize its order to provide the exactitems the customers in their neighborhood want. Receiving fewer deliveries to your store during the day. In this advantages, the stores no need to waste the time tocheck through each delivery because all needed products wil l be set up and combined since the DistributionCenters. y Expedite business for local food companies, which can now make one delivery to a central location fordistribution to local stores. y Reduce the holding Inventory Cost. Stores can order just the amount they sell in a day or two, so they dont haveproduct sitting around on the shelves.That means that they can guarantee the freshness in the perishableproducts at Seven-Eleven. y The staffs are able to consolidate work and spend more time with your customers, growing your business. As they will check the stock and place the order to the CDC and receive the product at night. y The suppliers can delivery in large amount with one full truck load as there has a store big enough to keep theproducts with the method to keep the product longer and still perish. C ons y Much lower density (hence longer distance) of U. S. Seven-Eleven stores.Deliver a few product everyday may using too much cost with the longer distance of each branch. Need to increase density, even though setting upown system only reduce problems by eliminating delivers y Increase transportation cost at stores because of increased delivers. As Distribution Centers need to deliver theproduct everyday with a few amounts in order to keep the freshness of the product. y Losing the economics of scale advantages, as Seven-Eleven need to order the product everyday in the feweramounts. y H igh costs of keeping the products as some products need a specific temperature to keep them 5.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE 7DREAM CONCEPT FOR SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN? FROM A SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE, IS IT LIKELY TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN JAPANOR THE UNITED STATES? WHY? 7dream makes sense given that Japanese customers are happy to receive their shipments at the localconvenience store. From a logistics perspective, online deliveries can piggy back on Seven-Eleven abdominal aortic aneurysm? s existing distribution network in Japan. Deliveries from the online supplier can be broughtt o the DC where they are sorted along with other deliveries destined for a store.This should increase theutilization of outbound transportation allowing Seven-Eleven to offer a lower cost alternative to having a package carrier deliver the product at home. The ancient negatives are that 7dream will use up storagespace and require the store to be able to retrieve specific packages for customers. One can argue that the concept may be more successful in Japan given the existing distribution network of Seven-Eleven and the frequency of visits by customers. Online delivery is able to link with the existingnetwork.The high visit frequency ensures that packages are not occupying valuable store shelf space for along time. Also, the stag visits ensure that the marginal cost to the customer of picking up at aJapanese Seven-Eleven is small. This is less likely to be the case in the United States. 6. SEVEN-ELEVEN IS ATTEMPTING TO DUPLICATE THEIR SUCCESSFUL JAPANESE SUPPLYCHAIN STRUCTURE IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THE demonstration OF CDCS. WHATARE THE PROS AND CONS OF THIS APPROACH? KEEP IN MIND THAT STORES ARE ALSOREPLENISHED BY WHOLESALERS AND DSD BY MANUFACTURERS.The difficulty of duplicating the Japan supply chain structure in the United States follows primarily fromthe much lower density of U. S. Seven-Eleven stores. This is compounded by the fact that Seven-Elevenstores are getting both direct store deliveries as well as wholesaler deliveries to its stores. Setting up itsown DCs does not allow Seven-Eleven to get the same level of transportation aggregation as it gets inJapan. Its own distribution system would help more if all wholesaler deliveries and direct store deliverieswere halt and routed through the DC.Even then, having its own distribution system would add muchless value than in Japan given the lower density of stores and larger distance between stores. 7. THE UNITED STATES HAS FOOD SERVICE DISTRIBUTORS LIKE MCLANE THAT ALSOREPLENISH CONVENIENCE STORES. WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS TO HAVING ADISTRIBUTOR REPLENISH CONVENIENCE STORES VERSUS A COMPANY LIKE SEVEN-ELEVEN MANAGING ITS OWN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION? One can contend that a distributor brings much more value to the table in the United States relation toJapan.Given the lower density of stores, a distributor is able to aggregate deliveries across manycompeting stores. This allows a distributor to pee levels of aggregation that cannot be achieved by asingle chain such as Seven-Eleven. The big disadvantage to having all deliveries done through a distributor is that Seven-Eleven is unable to exploit having a large number of stores. In fact, it may be argued thatgoing through the distributor has Seven-Eleven subsidize deliveries to competing smaller chains that mayalso be using the same distributor.

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