You are an Operations Executive for JSH Limited, and you are planning to recommend some changes to your organization’s value chain process. Currently, JSH faces multiple delays in shipping orders to their customer base due to distribution errors and natural disasters, resulting in backlog orders of 90 days. With the delay in orders, customers are taking to social media outlets to complain publicly and provide poor ratings or reviews of the company and products. The CEO has requested that you pull together an assessment of the current state JSH’s value chain for an upcoming meeting with the Board of Directors.
In preparation for a meeting with the Board of Directors, you have been assigned to create a Needs Analysis Summary of JSH’s value chain for the meeting. The CEO has shared with you JSH’s last value chain analysis model as a starting off point. *see attachment for it**
Instructions
The needs analysis summary should contain a synopsis of your evaluation of JSH’s use of Porter’s Value Chain and Five-Forces Model in your value chain. The meeting will be your first interaction with the Board of Directors, so you want to ensure that the Board understands the organizational value chain management methodologies and the organization’s current state.
Your needs analysis summary should:
Introduce Porter’s Value Chain and Five Forces Model
Recommend the optimal strategies to maximize JSH’s value chain performance
Provide attribution for credible sources
5-7 pages in length, not counting cover page
Requirements: 5-7 pages
Answer preview
An organization’s business and global environments can immensely influence its value chain. Porter’s value chain and five forces model can help organizations comprehend this influence. The first element within Potter’s five forces model is the power suppliers enjoy within a particular industry, domestic or global (Bruijl & Gerard, 2018). Suppliers can directly influence a product’s pricing due to the global business environment (Bruijl & Gerard, 2018). For instance, if JHS sells highly sought-after products and the suppliers of the raw materials used to manufacture the products are small, these suppliers have the power to control how much the company sells these products by either pricing the raw materials highly, forcing JHS to sell the products at high prices and vice versa.
