SUPPLY CHAIN

Eight O'clock Coffee Supply Chain

Abstract

Eight O'clock has streamlined its processes in all areas for success. The paper discusses the effective ERP system and along with how the strategies improvise the system which gives it a competitive edge. Quality Management leads as its key operating function in Supply Chain to overcome any difficulty that arises. It has 6 components that are very effectually acting to its streamline and adding as a major constituent to the process.

Eight O'clock Coffee

Company Background

Eight o'clock coffee company has headquarters in Montvale, New Jersey and makes coffee in Landover, MD. Eight o'clock coffee sold from 12 to 42 ounces bags of coffee beans to all the land. Their coffee is available in 11 flavors. In the 1929s and 1930s, eight o'clock coffee was a quarter of U.S. equity market. In 1979, it licensed its division Compass Foods Inc., to sell eight o'clock coffee to other retailers, including competing supermarket chains. In July 2005, it was acquired by Tata Coffee in India. Today, eight o'clock coffee is the third and the largest seller of whole coffee beans in the United States.

Quality Management and Supply Chain Elements

Among the factors that make the goal of supply chain can be said that both the quantity, quality, time, and cost are driving factors, and coming to depend on demand, and this is not constant, the quality demands. Once they are older, delivery times are variable, and costs also vary. This dynamic makes it difficult to manage so it is necessary to use information technology so as to facilitate decision making.

The five elements in a supply chain are:

1.Suppliers

2.Transports

3.The company

4.Retailing

5.Customers

A product gains value as it passes through the supply chain, this is what is known as a process of "value added" if a party does not add value chain the product of market forces that link annulled. For example, a company buys a product and does nothing and resells at a price more expensive, customers will end up finding the original supplier and buy the product directly to a lower price.

Supply Chain Model

Pull vs. Push supply chain model

By using pull method, the company tries to move its products through the distribution channel by building desire for the product among consumers, thus convincing retailers to respond to this demand by stocking these items Company's attempt to move their products through the distribution channel by creating a desire for the product among consumers, and then persuade retailers answer this request through the storage of these products.

As far as push strategy is concerned the company tries to push its products through the distribution channel by convincing channel members to offer them. The company's attempt to push their products through the distribution channel to persuade members of this channel by providing the products has (Sodhi, 2004).

Supply Chain Management

A relatively new management process that has great momentum in the past decade and generates significant cost reductions by allowing companies greater competitiveness and higher profits. In the new millennium, competition occurs between supply chains rather than between individual ...