Food Supply and Hotel Supply Chain PDF

FOOD SUPPLY and HOTEL SUPPLY CHAIN  Introduction The following slides will give an idea of how Food Supply Chain works. It has a simple illustration of the flow of food from the farmers to the consumer’s table. Also the flow from the consumer back to the farmers. H...

FOOD SUPPLY and HOTEL SUPPLY CHAIN  Introduction The following slides will give an idea of how Food Supply Chain works. It has a simple illustration of the flow of food from the farmers to the consumer’s table. Also the flow from the consumer back to the farmers. Here comes your footer  Page 2  Learning Objectives know the food supply chain identify who are involved in the food supply chain illustrate the movement of food and money in simple food supply chain Here comes your footer  Page 3  Food Supply Chain A food supply chain or food system refers to the processes that describe how food from a farm ends up on our tables. The processes include production, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal. Here comes your footer  Page 4  The food we eat reaches us via food supply chains through which food moves systematically in domino-like motion from producers to consumers while the money consumers pay for food goes to people who work at various stages along the food supply chain in the reverse direction. Here comes your footer  Page 6  Because a food supply chain is domino-like, when one part of the food supply chain is affected, the whole food supply chain is affected, which is often manifested through changes in price. Example: Increase in cost of raw materials , which could possible because of low supply , will result in increase of price paid by consumers.  In the food supply chain, food moves from producer to consumer via the processes of production,processing, distribution, retailing and consumption; thus, food mo ves from farmer to consumer. Here comes your footer  Page 8  At the same time, money that consumers pay for food moves from consumers to producers in the reverse process, again in a domino‐like fashion from consumer to retailer to distributor to processor to farmer. Here comes your footer  Page 9  Thus, the two‐sided causality that connects farmers and consumers is mediated by these two sets of domino effect (see figure below ). Here comes your footer  Page 10  In addition, both movements of food and money are facilitated by “pulls” and “pushes.” In a food supply chain, producers and processors push or supply food and consumers pull or demand food thereby facilitating the dominos (food) to fall (move) towards the consumers. Here comes your footer  Page 11  Similarly, producers and processors pull money and consumers push money to facilitate the movement of money from consumers to produce rs. Here comes your footer  Page 12 The Hotel Chain Supply Chain Here comes your footer  Page 13 Five characteristics of hotel supply chain 1. The perishability of products & services rendered and therefore impossible to store. 2. Inherent complexity of products & services, resulting in a higher number of suppliers. 3. Uncertainty of demand stemming mainly from two reasons: high competition and external factors, such as seasonal variations and economic performance. Here comes your footer  Page 14 4. Inseparability between service production and the end customer. 5. Tradition sale of tourism service packages, making the relationship and cooperation among tourism organizations crucial. Here comes your footer  Page 15 A Brief Introduction to Tourism Supply Chains See video on this USB or through the link below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUen_lEy4-c Here comes your footer  Page 16  References https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/chge/files/less on_4_1.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byHWgp U8rXQ Here comes your footer  Page 17