The process of procuring Vietnamese hyacinth handbags to Finland
Vu, Thi Thuy (2019)
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Vu, Thi Thuy
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202001271603
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202001271603
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The overall purpose of the thesis is to establish a procurement process that can be used in global sourcing. To answer to the research question: “How to procure Vietnamese water hyacinth bags to Finland?”, four objectives have been established. These objectives will help to answers questions about motives and problems with global procurement, stages in procurement process, tools that often use in supply management and how supply chain strategy effects procurement.
Theoretical part is conducted through empirical part in a reductive approach. The study is based on a qualitative method to provide a deep understanding of the process and interpret the meaning behind data. Data is collected through two main sources: primary data (in-depth interviews, observation) and secondary data (desktop research). Both sources are used together to solve four objectives.
The paper also includes findings related to global procurement objectives. Vietnam’s cultur-al and communication is a major problem in global trade. It is emphasized that “identifying” suppliers from trustworthy sources will reduce time and money handicraft hyacinth industry is on a downside. By using leagility supply chain strategy and rule 80/20 will reduce the vol-atility of fashion product characteristics. One more unexpected finding has been found through interviews is water hyacinth bags are on the downside of their cycle.
As an Haaga-Helia student who majors in Supply Chain and Marketing and a person who is passionate about handicrafts, the author wishes to combine academic knowledge and hob-bies to become a successful business. The author used to work as a procurement officer; therefore, work experience motivated the author to test the market and see if a business plan can become a successful business.
Kloman is the author’s business idea of turning Finland into a distribution channel in Nordics in the next five years and then expand to entire Europe in the next 10 years. The choice between Vantaa and Rotterdam was considered. Rotterdam had more advantages to be-come a European warehouse however, resource-limited made Vantaa become the destina-tion for this period.
Theoretical part is conducted through empirical part in a reductive approach. The study is based on a qualitative method to provide a deep understanding of the process and interpret the meaning behind data. Data is collected through two main sources: primary data (in-depth interviews, observation) and secondary data (desktop research). Both sources are used together to solve four objectives.
The paper also includes findings related to global procurement objectives. Vietnam’s cultur-al and communication is a major problem in global trade. It is emphasized that “identifying” suppliers from trustworthy sources will reduce time and money handicraft hyacinth industry is on a downside. By using leagility supply chain strategy and rule 80/20 will reduce the vol-atility of fashion product characteristics. One more unexpected finding has been found through interviews is water hyacinth bags are on the downside of their cycle.
As an Haaga-Helia student who majors in Supply Chain and Marketing and a person who is passionate about handicrafts, the author wishes to combine academic knowledge and hob-bies to become a successful business. The author used to work as a procurement officer; therefore, work experience motivated the author to test the market and see if a business plan can become a successful business.
Kloman is the author’s business idea of turning Finland into a distribution channel in Nordics in the next five years and then expand to entire Europe in the next 10 years. The choice between Vantaa and Rotterdam was considered. Rotterdam had more advantages to be-come a European warehouse however, resource-limited made Vantaa become the destina-tion for this period.