Meals On Wheels Case Study Summary

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The inventory management system at Meals on Wheels is crucial in order to maintain serviceability, as they continue to provide high quality service by coordinating their purchases and production activities. (BEST PRACTICES IN DEMAND AND INVENTORY PLANNING p. 4). The right combination of these activities will have a positive impact on their overall manufacturing operations and ultimately, its bottom line of positively impacting and helping the community. In order to have the right combination of activities, we recommend Meals on Wheels acquires a Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system, that will integrate their existing system to keep suitable inventory levels, while also ensuring that the required raw materials are available as they are …show more content…
Inventory levels should continuously be monitored and consistently to make sure levels stay low.
3. All aspects of the manufacturing process should be planned out and approved by management. The above components are currently present at Meals on Wheels with their Just in time ordering system, and their perpetual and cycle inventory count. However, inaccuracies from human errors, as stated above, are a downfall (Arnold, Chapman, Clive, 2008, p. 318), and a potential risk if raw materials are not present at the time of production. The use of a barcode system will streamline operations throughout the warehouse in the following ways: • Receiving: employees can scan products received and the system will verify that the quantities match the actual quantities of products that were ordered. This will automatically and continually update on hand quantities in the computer system in comparison to the manual system they currently have.
• Put away: when products are counted and ready to be stored, the employees will scan the barcode of both the location and the items. This will verify that the product is being stored in the proper location, and then ‘remembers’ where the products can be located for future