Alpargatas Essay

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ALPARGATAS S.A. BAXTER CASE STUDY MIDTERM PAPER Alpargatas S.A. Baxter Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. In order to have an effective supply chain management a company would beat competitors to market with functional and ground-breaking products. Globalization, outsourcing and information technology have enabled many organizations, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard, to successfully operate solid collaborative supply networks in which each specialized business partner focuses on only a few key strategic activities. Organizations increasingly find that they must rely on effective supply chains, or networks, to compete in the global market and networked economy. Alpargatas are a sort of shoe that is worn by rural workers. Alpargatas was founded in 1883 by Juan Echegarary and Robert Fraser that symbolized the European heritage that is part of Argentina’s culture. In 1907, the company opened a subsidiary in San Pablo, Brazil. The company expanded as Argentina continued to grow with more immigrants and economic expansion. Alpargatas served as a textile operation that found uses for its scraps to produce floor clothes, grid clothes, and flannel. It had textile mills for the fabrication of canvas and a cotton mill that supplied the raw material for the production system. In 1989 Argentina’s election and initial transition to democracy resulted in economic turmoil accompanied by hyperinflation of up to 200% per month. With the economy in turmoil Alpargatas decided to concentrate all its efforts on its core business which is textiles and shoes. The
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