This paper is about the outsourcing offshoring at Darden Restaurants. The paper will examine any business problem that the Darden Restaurant needs to resolve and summary of the relevant background information from the case. The paper will also address how the company dealt with its issues and the appropriateness of these actions taken by the company. In addition, some of the outsourcing opportunities in a restaurant will be enumerated and supply-chain issues that are unique to a firm sourcing from 35 countries will also be discussed. I will also examine e how other firms or industries develop international supply chains as compared …show more content…
Briefly, summarize relevant background information from the case
Darden Restaurants is a reputable parent company of many brands of restaurants; it is the parent company of over 1,700 restaurants across the United States and Canada. Some of the notable brands of Darden restaurants are Red Lobster and Olive Garden. The company prides itself in producing quality, healthy, and fresh foods for their 300 million plus customers.
To keep the company competitive, Darden has perfected the ways of navigating the intricacy of purchasing products from as many as 35 countries and has also perfected the processes of purchasing seafood with short shelf life; in most cases the shelf life of the seafood is as short as 4 days. Furthermore, in order to continually provide their customers with fresh sea foods the company relies on airfreights transporters and also monitors the seafood each step of the way keeping all products at 34 degrees …show more content…
Comment on the appropriateness of these actions based on your reading and understanding of the chapter content.
Darden supply chain exemplifies proficient, and a working cost saving process of providing quality product and service to customers. Darden supply chain encompasses the integration of their products and services procurement, products which are transformed into edible or final products and the delivered as quality foods to their customers.
In addition, the company has achieved numerous goals due to its efficient supply chain and is reaping the perks of having efficient supply chain as depicted by Heizer & Render (2011). The perks of supply chain according to the two authors include, enhanced competitive advantage in the market, production cost reduction, production time reduction, added outside expertise, gained outside technology and increased customers satisfaction.
Heizer & Render (2011) also enumerated the importance of outsourcing and offshoring in the productivity and profitability. This topic can be related to the Darden restaurants, considering one of the major lifeline of the company is its proficient supply chain that allows the company