NATURE’S SPRING BULACAN BRANCH

Alemaña, Neveen
Bellen, Ariana Beatrice
Caperiña, Mike
Perez, Harvey
Romeo, Nikki
BACKGROUND

The production and distribution of purified, safe and affordable drinking water was conceived by
its President and Chief Executive Officer in 1991 when the need was so magnified after super
typhoon Ruping (the Philippine name for internationally christened typhoon Mike) hit Cebu,
Philippines sometime in November, 1990. The destruction it had caused brought unimaginable
havoc and paralyzed the whole island. There was no electrical power which also caused the
disruption of the water distribution. The populace were only relying on unsafe deep well water
sources. This resulted on an outbreak of water bound diseases like El Tor, Cholera, Diarrhea and
Hepatitis.
The need for a safe drinking water was an immediate concern. The demand for safe bottled
drinking water products was emphasized. Unfortunately, these where not readily available in the
market. There was only a handful local brands and few expensive foreign bottled water. Stocks
were very few and in some cases no supply at all.
This demand, during that time of emergency caused by a natural calamity and the development
of kidney stones on its now President and CEO, primarily due to the local water source's high
mineral content (particularly lime) was instrumental in realizing the need to come up with
solutions.
A comprehensive research and hands on training was then undertaken in the United States about
the industry, the product, and the technical aspects of the manufacturing and production of
purified bottled water. With its unrelenting success, Nature’s Spring Water gives back to the
Filipino community by stepping up during calamities. They provide free supply of deep well
water or non-processed water and discounts on their bottled water. They also believe their
corporate social responsibility in education and tourism means opening their plant gates to the
public by allowing educational tours within their facilities. This also ensures “transparency and
confidence in quality.”

CAPACITY PLANNING
Nature's Spring is an Philippine national beverage corporation that was found on 1991 by Danilo
Lua with the help of his team that has and hands on research done in United States. It is a
manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage with different kind of water.
Nature spring operate in a make- to -stock environment. This process can help to provide faster
service to customers from available stock and lower costs considering Nature's Spring normally
has a distribution process of bulk items.
The customers can buy directly from the available inventory and other retailer shop. Demand
management and distribution is therefore a focus of the capacity in manufacturing the product.
They use the continuous flow method for providing and manufacturing their products. Nature's
Spring's Sales and Operations Planning Process is primarily focused on maintaining and
improving forecast accuracy also including tactical market planning, customer order
management, master scheduling and detailed weekly planning.
company needs to implement individual strategies to cope with each type of change. Nature's
Spring Corporation is among one of the oldest corporations of the country . It has gone through
many internal and external changes since it has been in existence. The company has used
techniques of change management in order to survive from the consequences of those events and
their competitors. Nature's Spring is a type of company that requires making changes in its
products they provide different kind of bottled water base on the need of its consumers . The
products comprise of Purified Bottled Water, Distilled Bottled Water, Alkaline Bottled Water,
Bubble Bottled Water, Crystal Tube Ice, Five Gallons, Specialized Packaging, and Bai Products.
They also have flavored water that comes in apple, grape, lemon, and honeydew flavors.
FACILITY LAYOUT
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES
 The Nature’s  The  The company
Spring facility distribution could add
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position near more hotels, could lessen
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region that store, and etc. been bottling
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their products. the process vigorously
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business give to other
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operations. could benefit
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technology is both ways.
indeed a great
milestone in
the
Information
Technology
(IT) industry
the country.
According to
the brand, the
exploitation
of the new
system
resulted “in
automation,
traceability,
and
accountability
of its
operations,
 which
streamlined
and increased
operational
production
efficiency in
its product
lines.”
 facility in
Bulacan in
2014 was the
firm’s first
bottling line
with a high
rating of
31,500
containers per
hour.

Natures Spring
WORK DESIGN
Work Design An arrangement in the workplace that has the objective of overcoming employee
and job dissatisfaction that comes about from mechanical and repetitive tasks in the workplace.
Work design is used by organizations to boost productivity by offering employees non- monetary
rewards such as satisfaction from a greater sense of personal achievement. Also called job
design.
strength
The strength of nature’s spring on work design is the production line become easy and fastest
that the manmade because of newly improve technology and the consistency of their machine.
it’s very easy to natures spring to make a lot of product in just a minute

Weaknesses
The weaknesses of nature’s spring is they don’t need a lot of worker. To their technology
because it is automatic, and they work by using computer programming, so they need only a
worker from manual doing of product
OPPORTUNITY
The opportunity of this product is they distribute in different areas, so their product is well
known so this is an opportunity to make different kind of product the trend is in their product
because the product is well known

Treats
The treat. to their company are the competitor the well-known some competitor make different
king of product. if natures spring dint think a unique product, they result of have a low sales
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LOCATION PLANNING
The very first Nature’s Spring factory is located at Cebu city. Nature Spring Water is a
household name when it comes to safe drinking water. Operated by the Philippine Spring Water
and Resources, Inc. (PSWRI), the brand supplies water to both local and international markets.
A small background about the first branch of Nature’s Spring factory in Cebu. The production
and distribution of purified, safe and affordable drinking water was conceived by its President
and Chief Executive Officer in 1991 when the need was so magnified after super typhoon
Ruping (the Philippine name for internationally christened typhoon Mike) hit Cebu, Philippines
sometime in November, 1990. The destruction it had caused brought unimaginable havoc and
paralyzed the whole island. There was no electrical power which also caused the disruption of
the water distribution. The populace were only relying on unsafe deep well water sources. This
resulted on an outbreak of water bound diseases like El Tor, Cholera, Diarrhea and Hepatitis A.
The first plant and production facility was put up after a thorough market research and extensive
product conceptualization and development. They were also aided by foreign expert consultants.
They opened their first and biggest plant and office facilities at A.C. Cortes, Avenue, Cambaro,
Mandaue City. Currently a leader in the purified bottled drinking water in the country, Nature’s
Spring has three huge production facilities. For the Luzon market, they are located in Guiguinto,
Bulacan and Calamba, Laguna. In Mindanao, the plant is located in Cagayan de Oro City. They
also have five small plants in major locations in the country.
We the business related courses visited the guiguinto branch. It’s obviously located at a place
where it has easy access to any business’ necessities. A location where it is accessible to all who
wants to reach the plant. In puttig up a business, Location is one of the many things that should
be considered first because once these facilities are established, they can’t be easily relocated.
Yet, if the location of the facility is suboptimal, the result will be higher costs throughout the
lifetime of these facilities.
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QUALITY CONTROL
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Strengths:

Nature Springs ensure their products by checking the quality of the bottle, the water test,
machinery that ensures the consumer’s safety when buying the said product. They check this
daily to prevent any possible case of malfunctions, they reject those bottles which are defective.
They check the water content if it is balance, the labeling of the product if it is correctly placed.
Their capacity also to produce 200 bottles per minute and 31,500 per hour with a lot of checking
to these bottles. The tanks and many machines which the employees verify its safety and
capacity to produce good quality water.

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Weaknesses:
One of the possible weaknesses of the product if there is any miscalculation on its quality if it is
either human or machine error. There can be cases of mistakes that can lead in a huge profit loss.
That can affect the brand image due to the less quality of the product.

Opportunity

If nature springs product can produce good quality product and customers satisfaction will rise
because of their good production. Quality is a huge factor to these type of businesses because the
quality of the product can lead to good reviews that can encourage more market and more
income to their product. And also due to their machinery their opportunities rises because they
are open to add more machines that can make their work twice as productive.

Threats:

The threats in the quality of the product is one’s huge miscalculation which was discussed in the
weaknesses, Because one mistake(damage) can lead into their product huge loss. Because of
their huge name if some of their customer complains about a certain thing in their product this
can lead to their competitor’s gain and their loss.