Assignment 2 Vice President Of Operations Part 2

Vice President of Operations Part 2NameTutor’s Name07/11/2014Evaluate two to four (2-4) weaknesses that are evident in the selected organization’s product life cycle. Generate a new product design and product selection, and then determine three (3) strategies that the organization needs in order to strengthen the operation. Provide support for the rationale.Darden restaurants use four major supply chains. While it is desirable to have several supply chains each aligned to the market, this makes the product life cycle disjointed and possibly inefficient. With four major supply chains opportunity for collaboration is rare as separate divisions and supply chain partners use their own systems and processes of handling data making it difficult for information sharing and effective collaboration. Managing four different supply chains each with its own problems is a demanding management task that calls for specialized skills, budgets and organization (Aitken, Childerhouse and Towill, 2003). The second weakness is the product life cycle is use of many suppliers. The qualified suppliers respond to a request for quotation, with the order going to the lowest bidder thus playing one supplier against the other. In this case there is