The use of technology has enabled Target Corporation to keep track of the purchases as well as the demands of its customers. The stores that are located in different parts of the United States and Canada will thus stock the products that are moving in their areas. The customers, therefore, get their products whenever they visit the stores that are in their area. This has helped to limit the possibility of dead stock in some stores. Each store stocks products that are in demand by its customers. The use of the technology has helped avoid demand speculation where the company would stock all the products with the belief that the customers might desire them. In this case, it is the demand by the customers that pushes the goods to the shelf. It …show more content…
The system allows the company to improve the quality of the products that are available to the customers through an efficient supply chain network as well as the reduced price on products. The company has gone green through the implementation of strategies that are environmentally friendly that include creation of as minimum waste as possible, use of renewable energy for its operations, and the sale of items or products that fulfil and sustain the Target Corporation resources and the environment. All these have been achieved through improving truck miles per gallon, order optimization, as well as the efficient consolidation network. Through the order optimization, Target Corporation has ensured that the ships that the company products are aligned with the organization’s distribution centers to reduce the time required for the transportation of the products. With proper coordination, it is ensured that the shipment of products being delivered to the distribution centers follow the route that is less challenging and with a short distance. The use of shipment optimization has helped to ensure that there is an improvement with regards to the way the boxes that contain the company products are packed in the trucks. The system allows for more boxes to be carried and transported by each truck. The optimization has helped to reduce the number of truck loads that were initially required to transport the products for delivery in Target Corporation distribution centers. The enhanced optimization has successfully eliminated packaging while making it easy to stack