Blozis Company Case Study

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary Page 3

Issue(s) Identification Page 3

Environmental and Root Cause Analysis Page 5

Alternatives and/or Options Page 6

Recommendations and Implementation Page 7

Monitor and Control Page 8

Conclusion Page 8

Executive Summary

Blozis Company is a manufacturer of highly technical equipment with gross sales of $16 million per year. The company produces primarily units designed to customer specification by highly trained and knowledgeable engineers that can make to purchase applications or keep up with the market and stock highly useful products for off the shelf sale. While the business is running day to day there are internal problems that are growing and negatively impacting the supply chain and in the long run will eventually result in decreased profits if the issues are not resolved. Issues such as material and products being lost with the company; invoices not being paid on time which obviously results in loss of early payment discounts. These lost discounts are key as they help reduce the overall cost and thus the end cost to the consumer. The key component that links all various departments of a company together is communication and is lacking internally in Blozis across various departments. As the supply manager I will discuss the systemic causes that are causing the breakdown of communication and present a supply chain strategy that will improve the flow of supply chain processes in each department within Blozis and lead to shorter lead times for its customers. Once the strategic methods are implemented there will be positive changes for Blozis.

Issue(s) Identification

The problems facing Blozis Company’s Supply Manager are general lack of controls, processes and defined roles and responsibilities throughout the supply department.

Internal factors are:

1. Roles and responsibilities within the organization are not clearly defined. This leads to people doing jobs...