FORD MOTOR COMPANY Ford Motor Company, one of the world’s largest automotive man
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FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Ford Motor Company, one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers, has worked with Penske on several Six Sigma initiatives. As its lead logistics provider (LLP), Penske’s quality team of associates are trained in Six Sigma practices and work closely with Ford to streamline operations and create and maintain a more centralized logistics network. Together, they uncovered several areas for real cost savings as a result of reducing inbound carrier discrepancies, eliminating unnecessary premium costs and reducing shipment overages. Plus,
Penske implemented accountability procedures and advanced logistics management technologies to gain more visibility of its overall supply network.
Challenges •
• To develop, implement and operate a centralized logistics network for Ford
• To streamline supplier and carrier operations for improved performance and accountability
If you are the Operation Management Consultant Ford, What should be your Strategy to overcome the challenges company Face? Critically describe.
Explanation / Answer
To develop, implement and operate a centralized logistics network for Ford
Penske first need to check the central warehouse cost in which place they want to establish its warehouse.
Logistics cost should be minimum to all customer location from central warehouse.
Penske should select the Central warehouse hub at the place where consumption of finished goods should be maximum compare to other country.
Quality of delivery should meet the customer and ford requirement.
Central warehouse hub should be well connected with Road, Air & Sea transport.
You should aware about the government policy, Taxes and legal issues where you are going to establish warehouse.
You should develope a ERP to track and locate your delivery for fasting the logistics process.
You should contact to some local and international logistics companies(Third party) which already has better acess to nearby countries.
• To streamline supplier and carrier operations for improved performance and accountability If you are the Operation Management Consultant Ford, What should be your Strategy to overcome the challenges company Face? Critically describe.
You should contact to some international and national logistics companies which provide fast and quality services to customers. So that you can faster delivery to customer.
For faster delievery to customer, you should implement a online tracking system like ERP.
Establish a better way of communication for faster response. It may be mail and any other social media platform.
warehouse and logistics companies should be work 24*7.
As a consultant we need to develope a online (SAP,oracle) ERP for manage and control inventory.
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