There appear to be rumors swirling about several Asian countries the past 6 weeks about a star soccer player from the Bulgarian national team who will sign autographs and have his picture taken with anyone interested. It is true that Bulgarian soccer players do have time on their hands since they are watching the Euro cup with the rest of us, but truth be told, this person is one of our MBA stars....Stefan Stanev who along with DJ Thongkoth and Antonia Zeller have been working to revamp Grohe AG Asian supply chain. Grohe is a global market leader in the production and marketing of premium sanitary fittings for bath and kitchen. Stefan, DJ and Antonia worked out of Grohe’s distribution center and factory operations in the Pudong area of Shanghai. The Grohe assignment reflects the truly global nature of the MBA consultancies: Grohe is a German company headquartered in Hemer, Germany, with operations in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, where the students were located. The manager they worked with is Chinese, and the head of Grohe’s operations in Shanghai is European. To add more international flavor, DJ was born in Laos, Stefan is from Bugaria, and Antoinia is German! The team spent their time with Grohe in Shanghai analyzing how Grohe could more effectively consolidate their Hong Kong operations into the supply chain operations in Shanghai. They analyzed Grohe’s shipments into Asia, and looked at such things as market demand, forecasting processes, material and information flow, order processing , IT systems and inventories.
They then recommended how Grohe could most effectively integrate Hong Kong into the Greater China supply chain. At the conclusion of their presentation, top management decided to adopt their recommendations and instructed managers to begin implementing the major directives from their study.
The picture on top shows the students with one of their Grohe hosts.
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