Hershey Company Supply Chain Design

Cynthia Anouar

Identify and Determine Performance

• Cost-effective

• Flexible

• Raw material savings,

• Broad supply chain

• Product line rationalization

• Realignment of their manufacturing

• Distribution facilities

• Disciplined general & administrative

cost

control

Capacity Management

• is a process used to manage

information

technology (IT). Its primary goal is

to ensure that IT capacity meets

current and future business

requirements in a cost-effective

manner (Wikipedia, 2008)

Just-In-Time (JIT)

• Just-in-time is defined as an integrated set of

activities designaed to achieve high-

volume production using minimum

inventories of parts that arrive at the

workstation exactly when they are

needed. (Chase, 2006)

E-Business

Three areas are changed by

e-business

1. Business

2. Distribution

3. Payments

They become more interconnected

by the e-business, with accurately

updates and in real time.

Conclusion• Recognized that Hershey is cost-

effective & flexible

• explained the measures the amount of

outputs and inputs throughout the

product cycle

• Just-in-time helps the team

resourcefully to and successfully plan

scheduling , the flow throughout the

production process

• Hershey connect and communicate

globally.

References

Chase-Jacob, Aquillano. (2005). Operations Management for Completive Advantage Operations Strategy and Managing Change. The McGraw-Hill Companies. Retrieved on May 18, 2009HowStuffWorks, Inc. (2009). How Salt Works. Retrieved on May 19th, 2009 from http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/salt2.htm

Capacity management. (2008, September 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:25, May 28, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capacity_management&oldid=240659156