John Deere Case Assignment
Scott Nolan has been offered a new position as supply management manager for a new Deere & Company manufacturing facility of designed product skid-steer loader. His job is to produce a plan that summaries how Deere is going to manage the early supplier integration into the design and manufacturing of the new Deere Skid-steere loader. He must make a proposal to identify specific suppliers to integrate into skid-steer loader early development process and specific ways to effectively integrate these suppliers in order to meet aggressive target costs. The new manager will have to produce a plan that summaries how Deere is going to manage the early supplier integration into the design and manufacturing of the new Deere Skid-steere loader. His task is to make sure that the suppliers integrate based on strict selection rules that will prove to be critical in improving the new Deere skid-steere loader. He will have to be careful in choosing the criteria for Selecting Suppliers for integration into the manufacturing and design. He also was a given deadline to finish the task. The time frame is 24 months from the hiring date. Based on the given information, Scott may face some obstacles on his way to make the site fully operational in the time frame that he was given by his manager.
1..The contract with the New Holland and the way that the company makes business with such suppliers is one issue that the new manager will have to solve to make the company successful. Deere and Company is been in the skid-steer loader business for more than 25 years but subsequently decided to contract the engineering and manufacturing to New Holland, an independent contractor. New Holland sells its excess capacity to Deere and Company and allows it make a minor changes on the product for brand differentiation only. But then when the demand for new skid-steer loader increased, New Holland had refused to sell additional production capacity to Deere and Company....