Supply Chain for Tropicana

 

Suppliers Supplier	Acres of groves that grow the oranges in Florida.
Supplier	•          Tropicana juice plants
Manufacturer	•          Tropicana
Distributor	•          Tropicana sites located in New jJrsey, Ohio, and California.
Retailer	•          Grocery Stores
Customer	•          Restaurants, covenant stores, and people
Customers Customer	•          People eating inside restaurants, and individuals

In the Supply Chain of Tropicana orange juice the cost of fuel increases at the level from the distributor to the level of the retailer.


If I had to pick one level in the supply chain that would be most important in controlling the costs, I would choose the price Tropicana sets to sell their product. Because Tropicana performs most of the laboring themselves, those costs are controlled for the most part. The price is the most important factor because if there is a decrease in growth on oranges, then Tropicana needs to increase their prices because there are a limited amount of oranges.

There a numerous departments involved in the Tropicana company. On average there are at least five. You would defiantly have human resources to manage the factory works. Linguistics to keep of the trains distributing the juice to different retailers.  A marketing team to advertise your product to consumers. These are just a few examples of different departments that your company will have.