Unified Richardson
Autor: rajinder.singh • July 28, 2015 • Case Study • 2,320 Words (10 Pages) • 1,861 Views
CASE STUDY REPORT
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UNIFINE RICHARDSON
Submitted To:- Submitted By:-
Amy Young Rajinder Singh(4234775)
Nandhu Venugopal(4237344)
Anmolpreet Singh Bara(4238593)
Harsh Jani(4235209)
Aniket Pande(4236354)
TABLE OF CONTENT
Sr. No. | Topic | Page No. |
1 | Executive Summary | 3 |
2 | Issue Identification | 4 |
3 | Environmental & Root Cause Analysis | 5 |
4 | Alternatives & Options | 7 |
5 | Recommendations & Implementation | 9 |
6 | Monitor & Control | 10 |
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Unifine Richardson is a Canadian food manufacturer company. The company operates on a three-shifts basis operations. There are 110 people employed in the company. Company mainly produces following products:-
- Salad dressings
- Ice cream toppings
- Sauces
- Syrup
Honey is the main raw material of the company, that it used to purchase from their single-sourced supplier, Harrington Honey. Company purchased approximately one million pound honey annually at a price of $1.08 per pound. This purchasing represented 3-5% of total expenditure of the company. Unifine’s main customer is a retail operator, accounting for 80% of its total sales. Unifine used to sell a blend of 50-50 of Canadian and Chinese honey.
In 2002, company faced some crisis when CFIA rejected export of Chinese honey, because it found traces of an antibiotic in Chinese honey. Company heavily relied on Chinese honey as its single-sourced honey supplier, Harrington Honey used to import honey from China.
The case study is basically all about the crisis that company faced and some of the alternative ways that company could utilize in order to deal with the situation.
ISSUE IDENTIFICATION
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