The supply chain – tertiary sector
Tertiary sector makes the final stage in the industrial supply chain. The tertiary sector does not manufacture goods; however it provides services which are as follows
• Retailers like supermarkets that act as intermediary in selling goods manufactured from secondary sector businesses to the consumers.
• Service companies dealing in warehousing or transportation, finance, and computer systems.
Storage and transportation of stock are important activities that connect all three parts of the supply chain. To work on the logistics aspects of business, LeanFoods employs specialist transportation and storage companies. TDG is one such partner of LeanFoods, for storing and transportation of pallets of LeanFoods cereals. This enables LeanFoods to concentrate on its specialist area of manufacturing cereals and other food products. To reduce the distribution costs and keep the products competitive, LeanFoods shares transportation with another manufacturer, Kimberley Clark. Sharing of transportation helps in reducing the number of part-full or empty vehicles on the road. This system not only saves time and road miles but also provides additional benefits of reducing CO2 emissions.
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LeanFoods relies on the retailers to help them in developing a good relationship between their products and the consumers. LeanFoods takes up initiatives to drive sales and also add value to the retailers in the process. The ‘Shelf Ready Unit’ that LeanFoods developed with Tesco is an example of such initiative. This displays LeanFoods products easily and effectively thereby reducing supermarket’s staff time (and cost) in setting up a display. The display is attractive and makes it easier for consumers to choose from, hence increasing turnover for LeanFoods and
The supermarket Tesco operates in the tertiary sector which is where all the final products are sold to customers for a price higher than production to make company profits, they can also be part of the secondary sector which is the way they sell their own products which come under the Tesco brand.
RNRA Team, “Supermarkets, Fresh Produce and New Commodity Chains: What Future for the Small Producer?” Hot Topics: February, 2004.
Kudler Fine Foods is a store unlike any in the grocery industry. Kudler Fine Foods represents a store that could possibly spark a new era within the grocery world. The owner of Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler, has watched her dream of owning and operating a grocery store that specializes in fine quality food grow within a short period of time. The success of Kudler Fine Foods can be attributed to the innovative ideas, effective leadership, and organizational structure. The overall mission of Kudler Fine Food's "is to provide our customers the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparallel consumer environment. Our selections coupled with our experienced, helpful and knowledgeable staff, merge to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing" (Apollo Group, 2003). Kudler has managed to maintain its mission statement by providing its customers with the best and as a result the company has flourished. "Kathy considers one of her key responsibilities to be that of identification of new gourmet items that can be offered in her stores (Apollo Group, 2003)." Therefore, Kathy is considering plans to contract with local growers of organic produce to yet obtain the best in quality products for her consumers and take her business to the next step. If Kathy makes the decision to contract with local growers then changes could be introduced into the company's overall structural organization. Each aspect of Kudler Fine Food's organizational structure from basic business process to the supply chain and quality control process will be affected by the formation of a contractual relationship with local organic growers.
My ethnographic study took place at Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London. Before entering the store, I closely examined the front display windows. The products displayed include very red fresh apples that were in a stack. The apples were placed on a tray and table to provide the product with a lift and increase product visibility for all to see.
We all know Tesco as a food retailer, and we know that they are in constant competition with other retailers such as Sainsburys and Asda, yet we do not know much about what goes on beyond the shelves and the tills, the marketing plans and the day to day tactics that have to be devised to stay the number one food retailer in the United kingdom today.
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Lael is going to review the following three manager in the company: Liz, Roy, and Quang Yeh. Below is facts that I think might have a bearing on this problem, show as a table so make us easier to compare their difference, which is good for making utilitarian approach.
In brief, Kellogg’s is the world’s leading breakfast cereal manufacturer (The Times 100, 2010). Kellogg’s has manufacturing plants in the UK, Canada, Australia, Latin America and Asia (The Times 100, 2010), thus Levy (2007) settles Kellogg’s must have established an international supply chain as a response to the globalisation in which needs to act responsibly. Furthermore, this essay will also demonstrate Kellogg’s lean production system, and how exploits that. Interestingly, Krajewski et al. (2009) has drawn attention to the fact that lean production is an operations system, which assists to exploit the value of the company, in this case, Kellogg’s activities by eliminating waste. Referencing to Paton et al. (2011) agrees lean production is based on a series of practices which mostly seen at Kellogg’s as a management approach, namely; just in time (JIT) which will be included in this essay. The rationale behind the choice is, The Times 100 (2010) highlights; Kellogg’s lean production enables the rearrangement of processes and removes waste. As it is known that in the supply chain, there are parts where waste can be found (Paton et...
In the last category, Tesco’s goals are to make major improvements of its stores in the UK by 2017 and to open 450 convenience stores annually (B...
However a continuous rise in globalisation could be presented as a challenge for Sainsbury’s. One of the biggest economic factors is the rising costs of fuel which will impact right through the supply chain of Sainsbury’s leading to increase of its products. Social factors to consider due to increase in trend in healthy foods, so for Sainsbury’s to keep up with trends, it would be something to consider. The use of technology for great retailers such as Sainsbury’s is an important factor, persistent upgrading of technologies such as self-checkouts, computerised stock control etc., means less room for human errors. Concerning environmental, reducing carbon footprint is emphasised to big companies. “Companies like Sainsbury’s can contribute a lot of impact on the environment. To do this Sainsbury’s would have to put in more towards the green issue” (UK Essay 2014) Legally, Sainsbury’s would have to make sure to follow policies concerning label and packaging which could be an added financial load to Sainsbury’s. Sainsbury’s should act on its threats, to achieve its goals and
Traceability – Food and beverage customers look for means that will help them keep tracks of their product’s freshness from a food safety and an efficiency perspective. Therefore, warehouse management systems allow food and beverage managers have a closer look into these products as well as in determining the shipments needs to ship first as a result of time constraints. In a...
The food and staples retailing is an increasingly competitive industry. The market giants (competitors) are Coles (owned by Wesfarmers) which has 741 stores across Australia and plans to add 70 m...
Coolcargo and Frito-Lay implemented technical solutions for agricultural-products transportation following customers’ requirements. Coolcargo developed a transport-system for maintain fresh asparagus at controlled temperature from production site in Thailand to final destination in UK (UOL, 2013). Frito-Lay developed a global agile supply-chain for manufacturing and distributing salty-snacks to end-customers that allows processing agricultural-products in less than 24 hours for flavor guarantee (PepsiCo, 2013).
Before proceeding further its important for us to know what supply chain is and what supply chain is about?
Since from 19th century, the supermarket appeared in our lives. With the developing of supermarket, there are many lager supermarket chains now and we can see it everywhere with different companies which not only UK local but also other countries, such as Tesco, Sainsbury 's, Metro, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. In 2015, Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury 's occupy 28.4%, 17.1% and 16.9% of the whole markets (Wikipedia) which means the large supermarket chains hold the most market. So this essay is aimed to show that in what extent the positive things that the lager supermarket chains can offer to the customers. Firstly, it will show the convenience that large supermarket chains can offer to customers. Then it focuses on some serves that the customers