Alpha Toiletries Essay

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Alpha Toiletries Case Study Alpha Toiletries as a big organization relied their success on different sectors like maintaining good relations with key costumers. But there are always issues rising, which can affect the order winning criteria. The main issue in need of revising now is costumers concerned about deliveries being behind schedule. The newly appointed production manager mentioned that the company could lose the competitive edge, thus may lead into loosing main costumers such as Marks & Spencer(Williamson et al., 2004). Some aspects did affect the deliveries overdue issue, therefore the production director did an analysis and came to identify the main issues which were mainly related to warehousing, inventory, production and requirements planning, and call off of orders (Williamson et al., 2004).Warehousing is where Alpha stores their inventory and stock, a warehouse is a safe mode to store goods and helpful in supervising the goods. Alpha’s warehouse was overstocked, and the receiving area had some inventory permanently stored in which blocked some accesses(Williamson et al., 2004). Beside inventory being overstored, the warehouse faced difficulties and lags in transactions due to manual inventory recording system. The production manager also found that data and records regarding inventory was hard to obtain, it was hard to analyze the situation and come to a conclusion concerning stock activity(Williamson et al., 2004).That also affects forecasting, since large amount of data flows in warehousing and inventory, and IT plays an important role in data recording and do positively affects the production and requirement planning (Chopra, Meindl and Kalra, 2010). As the production director mentioned that there are no effective link between planning, scheduling, and executing. The production and marketing directors claim that the delivery performance as ‘not
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