Question: Your client (Oreo Products Inc.) needs your help. Oreo Product Inc. is a fairly new company, starting business only 8 years ago. Currently they are

Your client (Oreo Products Inc.) needs your help. Oreo Product Inc. is a fairly new company, starting business only 8 years ago. Currently they are experiencing an explosion of demand for their products and they need to keep up. Their finished product (10 individual finished goods) helps charge electric vehicles of all types. The company has a reputation that their products can quickly charge a vehicle in under 1 hour. Within their manufacturing process Oreo Products Inc. receive approx. 60% of their raw material from China, 15% from the United States, and the rest of the goods come from Canadian suppliers. Of these materials, 5% go straight thru to the distribution centers. All the inventory is stored onsite at their Vancouver location using appropriate warehouse storage. All the manufacturing is also done in Vancouver and in total there are 5000 part numbers which are a combination of items that come from suppliers and sub assemblies. Within production, they create 10 finished goods (which have a shelf life). Three of the ten items are large and bulky and four items are fragile. In the next 3 months, Oreo Products expects to begin manufacturing and shipping three new products. These new products will be extremely fragile and have special storage requirements. Up until now they have been able to keep up with demand but now they need to expand. They will be moving to a new facility within Vancouver in the next 3 months. About the facilities: Current facility is 50,000 sq ft The capacity is 30 times the square footage The new facility is double their current sq ft and the capacity is 40 X their current facility Oreo Products Inc. has 3 main customers: 1) The Electric Store is located in New York City. Within North America there are a total of 4 DCs. One is in New York City, one in Western Canada, one is in Western USA and 1 is in Mexico. The Electric Store will be receiving all of the new products that Oreo Products will start manufacturing in the next 3 months. 2) We Charge It is located in Germany. Within Europe there are 3 DCs serving all the customers in Europe. One is in France, one is in Poland and the other one in Italy. Recently the client has been complaining about the delivery times to its European facility. 3) Power It Up is located in China. Within the Asian area there are 3 DCs in Japan, Australia and Vietnam. Currently all orders are shipped using a 3PL directly to the customers. Oreo Products are concerned with this arrangement for their upcoming new product. Your client, Oreo Product Inc., wants you to make suggestions about how best to utilize the new facility, including how to plan and organize the inventory, warehouse, manufacturing and distribution process all while ensuring there are no disruptions to customers and they maintain top quality customer service. They are also seeking advice on how to improve the flow of their supply chain. please answer on below areas for above. Explain product flow and information flow throughout the supply chain. Examine Warehouse Functions Explain Inventory Management Determine when to order inventory Differentiate between MRP, reorder point and DRP logic Determine appropriate techniques for storage & handling inventory within the warehouse Determine appropriate techniques for picking & preparing inventory for shipping or production Describe the automated technology used in the warehouse Describe the use of a WMS in planning warehouse activities Construct a Bill Of Distribution from an example (in order to complete DRP Grids)

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