Grooves’ Distillery Records: The Revival of Vinyl

Name: Grooves’ Distillery Records: The Revival of Vinyl (English version)
SKU: W34652

David Barrett, Rijul Jain, Felipe Rodrigues, Alexander Miller

Product #:W34652

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:Accounting, Operations Management

Setting:Canada, 2021

Details:Case (PDF) • 9 pages • 2024-01-31

Subjects:

Capacity analysis Supply chain management Finance and investing Business management Accounting Operations and supply chain management

Geography:

North America Canada

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Rijul Jain, the operations supervisor at Grooves Distillery Records (Grooves), is trying to decide if and how to address capacity issues at this boutique vinyl record production facility after receiving a large contract that increased demand significantly. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the small business was started by Josephine “Fina” Leite and her wife, Theresa, to produce vinyl records of modern indie music for vinyl record enthusiasts. Jain must figure out where a bottleneck exists, balance Grooves' line of production workers, and increase production to meet demand.

Learning Objectives

After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:

Analyze a company that needs to run batches in the most efficient way possible.
Discover some of the possible growth options for a small operation that needs to expand.
Examine qualitative reasons for consumer and management preferences in production.
Examine asset utilization and analyze when more equipment is necessary.
Use incremental and process diagrams to determine what changes are appropriate for production.