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Link the Coors Operation and Technology (O&T) department vision statement to the O&T strategies or "supply chain guiding principles." Are there any gaps?
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The operations and technology (O&T) department of Coors was in charge of the supply chain management and had developed its own vision to elaborate the overall Coors vision statement as follows:
We are partners with our internal business stakeholders, with our suppliers and with our communities. With our partners, we have developed an aligned and integrated supply chain that delivers our commitments and meets the requirements that delight our distributors, retailers, and consumers, establishing our company as the supplier of choice. The processes required to design, safely produce, and deliver great tasting beer at its freshest, with superior packaging integrity, competitive cost, are well-defined, understood, consistently followed, and continually improved by every person in our organization. The quality and innovation we employ in all we do encourage beer drinkers to seek out our brands and make Coors the envy of our competition. Our use of current, accurate information, and appropriate technology enables all individuals in our organization to monitor and control their work, be flexible and move with speed. We value learning and exercise a tenacious approach to eliminate waste and reduce cost. We realize that in a competitive world, we must bring value to our brands and continually aspire to a higher level of performance to compete successfully.
The O&T department had also adopted and extended the following supply chain guiding principles from the work of the CIL supply chain project team to create its own business strategies:
• Simplify and stabilize the process.
• Eliminate non-value-added time and waste.
• Relentlessly pursue continuous improvement.
• Inventory is a liability, not an asset.
• People doing the work are critical to lasting improvement.
• Short cycle time + reliability = flexibility.
• Find and fix the root cause.
• Know your costs.
• Know your customers’ expectations.
• Make decisions where work is performed.
• Balance and optimize the overall process.
• What gets measured gets done.