Case Study-4 Module-4 Management at Jolly Arabia, leading food products producin
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Question
Case Study-4 Module-4 Management at Jolly Arabia, leading food products producing and marketing company based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently observed decline in their sales and market share in the highly competitive market. They hired Mr. Akram as a general manager to bring the company out of current crisis. Mr. Akram is a well renowned management expert with operations management education and experience. After establishing, the role of OM globalization, and forecasting Mr. Akram decided to evaluate the quality management systems adopted at Jolly Arabia. Your current task was now to prepare a proposal for the company highlighting the following; 1- Just in time production systems?Explanation / Answer
Just in time production systems:
The proposal to Mr. Akram on quality management is explained below:
1. The just in time is a quality control process through which inventories or raw materials are ordered only when needed in producing a products.
2. The main aim of just in time to reduce waste and increase productivity.
3. In order to implement just in time right demand for the product has to be correctly forecasted.
Application of just in time for Jolly Arabia will be as follows:
1. Cost saving: In order to save cost and increase revenue, Jolly Arabia has to procure ingredients for production only when need. As already memtioned this can be done by JIT quality control method.
2. Warehouse management: One of the important outcome of JIT is reducing or eliminating warehouse cost by producing goods only as per the demands.
3. Production Plan: JIT allows to plan production as per demand and hence there would be no haphazards without a proper plan in place.
The following are the factors needed to implement JIT:
1. A structured process has to be in place.
2. A non breakable machines and equipments needs to be in place.
3. An accurate system to forecast demand.