...Fin/370 October 11, 2012 Mohammad Sharifzadeh Kudler Fine Foods is a small business which employs the best of the latest form of fine foods and technology. The owner Kathy takes the right steps to implement a strong strategic management in force and able to identify the organizations issues to be able to sustain good performance. Kudler fine foods, internal and external environment data provides information to make daily decisions with the following; strategic intents, staying true to their mission, and core values in order to maintain what Kudler Fine Foods stands for today. According to the virtual tour, an analysis shows Kudler Fine Foods, weakness, strengths, and opportunities. It also shows the organizations internal resources and possibilities. Kudler foods, is confronted by a few weaknesses within the organization. For example inventory is limited due to perishable goods, costly payroll, and Kathy being the only manager for all three locations. This makes it very difficult with only one person in charge it limits the purchasing power and management responsibilities that prevent other opportunities for the employee’s, and customers. Kudler strengths are changing with today’s technology and creating many opportunities with Kudler Fine Foods. They are utilizing the intranet and internet that caters to the employees needs and makes it easier for the organizations communication. The internet also used as a toll to serve their customers about their plan of operations...
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...Kudler Foods has implemented a sales plan aimed toward achieving the new goal of delighting new and existing customers. The plan consists of three parts; however, this proposal will present a plan for the new customer focused programs. The Kudler sales team will successfully implement new programs designed to increase revenue and decrease costs. To attain this goal, an evaluation of the current sales team members will need to take place. Based on this evaluation of skills management will select several members of the current staff as well as hire some new employees to create a well-rounded, highly skilled team. The team’s responsibilities and functions will change and there will be an increase in responsibility. As a part of the restructure, a training plan, regular performance feedback, and annual performance appraisals are to be part of a performance management plan. This proposal will describe the new team members, revised responsibilities, training, and performance appraisal process proposed to ensure the team’s success. The first step will be to reorganize and restructure the team. The new team will have strong sales skills, be effective team players, be creative, innovative, and have an enthusiastic attitude. The team will consist of six members including a sales manager and five sales associates. The sales manager position is responsible for the team’s success in effectively implementing new customer programs, achieving sales goals, and motivating, mentoring...
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...turnover. The proposal is established to offer employees more opportunities for professional development from within Kudler Fine Foods. Active engagement from the management team will be required for the proposal to be effective. Job Descriptions and Qualifications To become more in line with the strategic plan, a need to restructure the organization for Kudler Foods was identified. The restructuring will include five additional positions that will be advertised and posted immediately. These positions will consist of an Accounting Manager, a Catering Assistant and three Purchasing Managers. The job descriptions for each are as follows: 1. Accounting Manager – Job Description: The Accounting Manager will be responsible for all areas relating to accounting and financial operations for the Kudler Fine Food stores. The Accounting Manager must also adhere to accounting principles and practices to ensure the financial statements and general ledger transactions are recorded accurately. Job Qualifications: CPA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business; five to seven years of work experience in retail; three to five years of management or supervisory experience; and must be familiar with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Access). 2. Catering Assistant - Job Description: The Catering Assistant will report to and support the Owner of Kudler Fine Foods and on occasion the Accounting Manager. The Catering Assistant may be required to attend catering events...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Problem Statement Felipe Holanda MGT 521 December 5, 2010 University of Phoenix Kudler Fine Foods Problem Statement Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) is a grocery store which the mission is committed to providing the finest and the highest quality of products. On the stores, KDD has specialized departments of meats, produces, wines, cheeses and dairies in other to trying to offer the best experience to its customers. The organization was established in 1998 by Kathy Kudler, and since then she has 3 stores which all are located in California (La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas). KFF is a small organization with a very oriented customer target, no direct competition around the stores, a great variety of products, and one good location store (La Jolla). Kathy Kudler pretends to continue expanding her business throughout California, although, KFF has been confronting some difficulties lately which are preventing to grow. They are due some lack of strategic plan and not effective management. Furthermore, the company has geographic limitations, high payroll, and elevated cost of inventories for perishable products. Besides all problems cited, the biggest issue in this company is the concentration of administrative tasks held by Kudler such as ordering and selecting products, running to the cash register, hiring and firing employees, and sometimes even stocking the shelves. Consequently, in order to analyze the issues of her organizations, she spends much time doing...
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...Kudler Fine Food Strategic Plan Analysis CIS/564.4 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS ABSTRACT Kudler Fine Food continues to strive for growth and success based on the vision of founder Kathy Kudler, a retired VP of Marketing from a large defense contractor, to have a premiere gourmet grocery food store with the best meats, produce, cheeses, and wines. With having direct control over hiring, ordering and customer service, she has built the company into an expanding organization. The following is a proposal of strategic implementation of technology and opportunities for strategic recommendations to improve workflow and to increase bottom line. Kudler Fine Food Strategic Plan Analysis In today’s highly competitive business environment, the use of information technology to enhance business operations and to improve customer services is improving productivity and increasing a high return on investment that will achieve long-term company goals. Kathy Kudler has plans to add an automatic inventory and ordering system by introducing a new e-commerce capabilities and an online catering link on company website. . Areas that could use strategic attention are management and creating an enterprise network between stores. With the management of Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler should consider different options that can improve her business. One option is to outsource some if not most of the management roles as far as the store management, human resources role, financial...
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...Running Head: PERFORMANCE, CAREER MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Performance, Career Management and Development at Kudler Fine Foods Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is a food store situated in the San Diego metropolitan area. Its stores are located at different locations of California. The main focus of the store is to have profit maximization by providing quality products at appropriate prices in comparison of the competitors. The company also wants to provide maximum satisfaction to its customers. Through this objective, the store wants to have major growth. The company currently wishes to enlarge its services by attaining perfection in the efficiency of its operations and due to this company’s management wants me to restructure my team by adopting and developing different measures and plans. Here, I will develop a proposal for the company that will entail recommendations and justifications to upper management in concern to the job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions, a training program to introduce and enhance the skills and qualifications of new and current employees, methods for evaluating employee and team performance, including a progressive discipline process, challenges of the team performance evaluation, incentives and benefits packages, strategies for managing employees’ career development, like promotions, educational opportunities, accommodations for diversity and so on and a fair and appropriate compensation plan. Job Descriptions...
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...Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area solely owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. The company has three locations La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. Each store has approximately 16,000 square feet of retail space located in a fashionable shopping center. The stores are stocked with the very best domestic and imported foodstuffs and divided into the following departments; Fresh Bakery and Pastries, Fresh Produce, Fresh Meat & Seafood, Condiments and Packaged Foods, and Cheese’s and Specialty Dairy Products. (Kudler, 2003) Kathy Kudler has been planning the restructure of operations at her three locations. She has decided to promote her current managers to middle management in each of her stores to take the burden off her so that she can spend more time running the business. The new duties of the new management team will be responsible for the hiring of the appropriate people for their departments, while also developing a training program for new and current employees. In addition, to their duties the management team must develop a precise appraisal system to gauge its employees in the future. There was a decision made that the Encinitas is in need of increasing its staff and in need of special training in each department. Kudler Fine Foods has netted after deducting cost of goods sold almost four million dollars in sales. While the consumers are looking to save money everywhere they can health is still...
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...Career Development Plan Summary HRM/531 March 7, 2011 Anita Orozco Kudler Find Foods (KFF) has recently promoted me to a midlevel manager in the accounting department. Kathy Kudler, the founder, has decided to restructure the accounting department and will require hiring additional personnel that entails training for new and current employees. Kathy is considering a better method for appraising the team’s performance. This proposal will include the job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions, a new training program that enhances the skills and qualifications of new and current employees, methods for evaluating employee and team performance (including a progressive discipline process), challenges of the team performance, incentives and benefit packages, strategies for managing employees’ career development, and a fair and appropriate compensation plan. Job Descriptions and Qualifications Kudler Fine Foods will be restructuring the accounting department. The accounting clerk positions will be eliminated altogether. The accounting department will be divided into five new positions including a first level management position. The accounting department will consist of an accounting manager, two accounts payable specialist, an accounts receivables/cash applications specialist, and a staff accountant. The job description and qualifications of each position is as follows: Accounting Manager Job Description: Responsible for all areas relating to financial...
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...Kudler Foods HRM Recommendation As a mid-level manager in the Information Systems department, I am required to restructure my team and provide training, performance appraisal systems. I will begin by defining the roles that I will oversee, and then outline a training program and evaluation process. I will address the concerns of apprising team performance and include a compensation plan. My team will consist of five different roles. (1) A trainer will provide employee training on company software and systems. (2) A help desk technician will provide front line support to employees. (3)An infrastructure technician will provide support for IT infrastructure, including, servers, circuits, and network equipment. (4) A DBA, who will manage and maintain company databases. (5)An entry-level manager to oversee day-to-day operations of the network team. Let us review the job description for each role. A trainer will be available to new employees and current employees alike. This employee’s responsibility is to provide application training for new employees, feedback to the DBA on potential database improvements, and training for existing employees when improvements and upgrades take place. This employee will be required to possess at least an associate’s degree, and strong intra-personal skills. A trainer needs to develop training courses, so therefore excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. This position will require travel A help desk technician will be provided...
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...7 Long Term Objectives………………………………………………8 Shot Term Objectives……………………………………………...10 Contingency Plans…………………………………………………10 Critical to Success Factors…………………………………………11 Environmental Scan and Summary………………………………..12 Internal Analysis…………………………………………………...13 External Analysis…………………………………………………..14 Value Chain Analysis……………………………………………...16 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………20 Resource Based Analysis…………………………………………..21 PEST Analysis……………………………………………………..22 Conclusion…………………………………………………………25 List of Appendixes………………………………………………...26 References…………………………………………………………27 Executive Summary This paper examines the current state of the organization, Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) by considering its background, financial status, operations, original and future vision and mission statements as stated by the owner, Kathy Kudler. It expands upon the owner’s desire to continue growth by creating and suggesting a new vision for the organization that continues to build on the organization’s original set of values and mission. The internal and external environments are examines. A new generic strategy and new grand strategies are presented and supported by long and short term objectives, and contingency plans and critical success factors are identified to mitigate unforeseen issues that may occur. The leadership at KFF wishes for continued growth and expansion and this must be completed in a manner that minimizes risk and keeps the organization ahead of the competition in the markets...
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