Question

c10 Identify the quality problems that a company might encounter with the following global supply chain components: a. Oversesas suppliers b. Container ships c. Transportation d. Packaging e. Distribution f. Warehousing

Answer 1

A: overseas container: The supply chain quality issues will be in the areas of actual vs usable capacity of containers, maintenance issues of containers, aging factor of containers, tensile stregnts issue in containers.

B: Container ships : Fuel efficiency issues of ships, maintenance and engkne failure issues of ships, wear and tear issues.

C: transportation: in this quality issues can be in the form of late delivery, packaging issues which results in product damage, lack of proper customer satisfaction because of communication error or lack of clarity, capacity utikisautil of truck etc.

D: packaging : lack of following packaging standards, poor packaging leads to damage of product, non scientific method of packaging leads to less utilisation of space in vehicle or containers.

E Distribution: lack of co ordination with service providers, late delivery issues lack of proper documentation, inability of tracking shipment's. Poor selection of mode of transport etc.

Warehousing :- lack of proper storage area utilisation, non availability of stocks, no proper stacking of products may leads to damage, poor warehousing design may leads to more storage cost, poor safeguard norms for products