1.What are the reasons for the increase in variability in Barilla's supply chain?
2.How can the firm cope with the increase in variability?
3.What is the impact of transferring demand information across the supply chain?
4. Diagnose the underlying causes of the difficulties that the JITD program was created to solve. What are the benefits and drawbacks of this program?
5. What conflicts or barriers internal to Barilla doe the JITD program create? What causes these conflicts? As Giorgio Maggiali, how would you deal with these?