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UNILEVER COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1

Unilever Company Supply Chain and Operations Management

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UNILEVER COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 2

Unilever Company Supply Chain and Operations

One of the world's largest consumer companies well known is the Unilever Company.

The company was established 100 years ago. Their products are supplied to over 190

countries, and approximately 2.5 people use their products. They have employed 149000

employees. Moreover, their products are divided into three brands: beauty and personal care,

foods and refreshment, and home care. The purpose drives the company to maintain a

sustainable living commonplace. Also, the company tries to improve the health and hygiene

of the people. I selected this company because it has supply chain strategies and operations.

Unilever has strategies to aid in the growth of the supply chain that they believe will

navigate them to their purpose. This company has created six pillars, operating with the

objective being one of them (Trinh, 2018). The company believes that creating a positive

change through driving to make more profits and growth will be necessary. Unilever

Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) can be delivered when the supply chain plays its role

effectively (Murphy & Murphy 2018). Furthermore, it helps the company transform it with

speed and be digitally connected to the world.

Consequently, another pillar is agility for a changing market, enabling the company to

change according to customer needs and become more responsive. Besides, partnership for

the future pillar, where they partner with others to succeed and adopt new business models,

innovate and drive efficiencies. Additionally, through reshaping the asset and cost base, this

can be achieved through driving margins. Lastly, the pillar of talent and capabilities through a

world-class supply chain is vital in investing in peoples’ talent and power.

According to Unilever’s supply chain analysis, the company has 59800 suppliers in

161 countries,123 countries with logistics and operations suppliers, marketing and business

services suppliers in 155 counties, third party manufacturing suppliers in 79 countries, 96

countries with raw material suppliers, and 83 countries with packaging suppliers. Unilever's

Operations Management (OM) is responsible for enhancing high productivity in the business

(Sinulingga, 2018). OM comes up with strategies to ensure that the company performance is

much higher and directly supports the company financially. Unilever's company OM has ten

decision areas include the design of goods and services which suit the organization well. In

addition, quality management deals with satisfying the additional process and capacity of

innovation, ensuring that there are adequate resources, location strategy is another decision.

Layout design and strategy allows the movement of information and resources in the

company to be efficient.

Furthermore, job design and human resources strategy enable OM to efficiently

support human resources and business operations (Sinulingga, 2018). Moreover, supply chain

management strategy ensures operation Managers support business strategies. Consequently,

the inventory management strategy ensures that OM maintains adequate and enough goods

for customers. Also, the scheduling strategy provides that the utilization of resources in the

company is scheduled. Lastly, maintenance strategy ensures Operations managers work for

high stability and reliability of the business.

Some of the questions that I can ask when interviewing the company are;

• How does this company build relationships with suppliers here and abroad?

• Can you briefly talk about your accounting experience?

• How do you usually deal with the situation of running out of stock?

Unilever Company has many competitors, P& G Company among them. Unilever

believes in providing a sustainable living plan while P&G ensures responsible governance

and ethical corporate (Prado, 2020). Moreover, Unilever focuses on external partnerships

with external suppliers while P&G focuses on enhancing internal collaboration with

employees and suppliers.

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UNILEVER COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Unilever Company Supply Chain and Operations Management Student’s Name Professor's Name Institution Course Date 1 UNILEVER COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 2 Unilever Company Supply Chain and Operations One of the world's largest consumer companies well known is the Unilever Company. The company was established 100 years ago. Their products are supplied to over 190 countries, and approximately 2.5 people use their products. They have employed 149000 employees. Moreover, their products are divided into three brands: beauty and personal care, foods and refreshment, and home care. The purpose drives the company to maintain a sustainable living commonplace. Also, the company tries to improve the health and hygiene of the people. I selected this company because it has supply chain strategies and operations. Unilever has strategies to aid in the growth of the supply chain that they believe will navigate them to their purpose. This company has created six pillars, operating with the objective being one of them (Trinh, 2018). The company believes that creating a positive change through driving to make more profit ...
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