...Functional Area Interrelationships Christina Mowder BUS/475 October 2, 2013 Traci Thornton Functional Area Interrelationships Kathy Kudler’s (Kudler’s Fine Foods owner) values and goals seem to infiltrate into the mission and vision statements. Therefore, entrepreneurs organize his or her company with key positions to support the organizational structure. Effective teams in both internal and external environments remain the key to success when conducting business. Kudler’s mission “Our selections, coupled with our experienced, helpful and knowledgeable staff, merge to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing” (Apollo Group, 2011. Furthermore, one identifies and explains the steps of the collaboration process Kathy Kudler applies to her business. Working to achieve organizational goals takes time, skill, and expertise. Reason for Existence According to Apollo Group (2011), Kudler Fine Foods remains a local upscale specialty food store located in three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas) along California’s Pacific Coast. Kudler Fine Foods broke even in nine months and remains profitable within its first year. Kudler’s divisional organizational structure helps make it possible to expand to a second location in its second year, and expand even further when it opens its third location in the fifth year. Each location obtains roughly 8,000 square feet of retail space in a fashionable shopping center. The stores remain stocked with the elite...
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...Functional Area Interrelationships Kudler Fine Foods is a neighbourhood upmarket specialty food store with the excellent domestic and imported fares. The company currently has three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area, La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. The stores consist of about roughly 8,000 square feet of retail space in the most stylish of shopping centers. Their selection includes the finest cheese, wine, fresh produce, pastry products, meats, seafood, and condiments. By stating the primary reasons of the organization’s existence, this paper will analyze the reason for the type of organizational structure, identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process, provide an example of the use of lateral and vertical collaboration, and identify the key stakeholders and the collaborative interactions among them in order to achieve success. Organization’s Existence Kudler Fine Foods states that it is its mission to provide their customers the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparallel consumer environment (Apollo Group, Inc, 2009). After reviewing the company’s mission statement, it appears that the primary reason for the existence of Kudler Fine Foods is to offer a place for its customers to shop that has all the finest choices of food related items from all over the world in one convenient location. According to the company’s strategic marketing goals, it has a plan in place to increase revenue for the business and to lower the...
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...1/15/2012 | | A discussion about organizational ethics and values is as old as organizations themselves. With the magnitude of scandals that has come to surface over the years about unethical behaviors of corporate leadership, it is important that companies excel in achieving values-based organizations and leadership, as well as ethical codes of conduct. Ethics is defined as, the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, or culture. The Kudler Fine Foods is type of market that can offer people many different things. Things such as gourmet breads, cheeses, and of course their wine. All of these wonderful things have come from around the country. Kathy Kudler founded the store in 1988 and it has been very successful and they have even opened two more stores. Though as any other small business they also have their ups and downs too. Things that have to do with the economy and even ethically. The Kudler Fine Foods is transforming its produce to carry organically grown produce. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in San Diego, California that was created by Kathy Kudler. What started out as a small endeavor has grown into three stores throughout the San Diego metropolitan area. The three stores are located within existing shopping centers and contain the following departments: bakery and pastries, meat, produce, cheese and dairy and fine wines. In the company's mission statement:...
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...Problem Statement for Kudler Fine Foods MGT 521 January 3, 2011 Problem Statement for Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods was established in 1998 by Kathy Kudler (Kudler, 2003). “Kudler’s vision was a premiere gourmet grocery store for savvy shoppers who are searching for the finest meats, produce, cheeses, and wine” (Kudler, 2003, p. 3). Kudler Fine Foods, like many other organizations today is facing challenges because of an increase in competition and an unstable economy. After reviewing Kudler’s strategic plan, several issues were identified regarding the organization’s business practices. I will address one issue and identify alternative solutions. I will also provide a vision for Kudler by describing where the organization could be if management realize the opportunity. Problem Statement As Kudler Fine Foods expands in an ever-changing business world, its management structure is not transforming. Kudler Fine Foods shall create a well-define management team to work together effectively to achieve the organization’s mission. “One function of management is to give direction to their organizations, provide leadership, and decide how to use organizational resources to accomplish goals” (Nickels, McHugh and McHugh, 2008, p. 182). One major issue this organization face is a small management team. According to Kudler’s strategic plan, the risk of possessing a small management team is considered a weakness (Kudler, 2003). Kathy Kudler is...
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...Cooper, Matt Desales, Janet Garza, Latrina Saunders BUS/475 July 25, 2011 Dr. Leah Raby The Kudler Fine Foods or KFF for short is an existing gourmet shop in which handles specialty items. Owner of these establishments is Kathy Kudler. She is the one who is responsible for the hiring, firing, inventory, and all managers, or assistant managers. Since 1988, Kudler Fine Foods is in the processes of rapid expansion. Kudler currently has three locations in different areas of California. The stores are carrying the finest of cheeses, meats, produces, and wines. This inventory is set for knowledgeable shoppers and particular customers. However, there needs to be resolutions made because of the costly payroll, inventory loss to employees, and the value vision and strategies for the customers, which is lost. Kudler Fine Foods is enthusiastic to offer individuals products to satisfy everyone’s needs for fine dining. The organization is known as an upscale food store offering many products from bakery items, meats, seafood’s, cheese, dairy products, produce, and packaged foods, and condiments. Kudler Fine Foods value all customers with prices that will meet the needs or wallet of anyone. Kudler Fine Foods has something for everyone whether shopping for personal, business, or party needs. The organization’s mission is to offer service at high quality because Kudler’s shops everywhere to obtain quality products for every customer. Kudler will go the extra mile to make sure...
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...Overview of Management: Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet food store founded by Kathy Kudler. There are currently three locations and Kudler is looking to expand further. In this paper, we will examine the organizational structure of Kudler Fine Foods; apply Porter’s Model of Five Competitive Forces; and examine how the Internet and technology has impacted Kudler Fine Foods. Primary Functions of Management There are four primary functions of management: Planning and Strategizing; Leading; Organizing; and Controlling (Balkin, 2002). Based on Kudler’s organization, it appears that Kathy Kudler, President, is mainly responsible for the planning and strategizing, however, each store manager and department head is responsible for their respective team’s planning and strategization. Leading is primarily the responsibility of Human Resources; ensuring employees are motivated and can work together for the greater good. The function of organizing is mainly that of Accounting and Finance, however, Human Resources also plays a role in this by defining the roles of the organization’s players. Finally, controlling is handled by Store Operations and manages the daily tasks, as well as ensuring that each store is performing to the best of their ability and has the necessary tools to do so. Technology and its Impact Technology can impact how a business conducts itself and can often lead to great improvements, especially when branching out over the Internet. There area few...
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...Kudler Fine Foods BSA310 April 15, 2012 Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store based in the San Diego area. There are three locations and each carries a variety of domestic and imported products, such as pastries, produce, meat, seafood, cheese, dairy, and packaged foods. Kudler’s keeps a database that is critical to the business processes of the company. In addition to the details kept about customer orders and demographics, information is catalogued for inventory, purchase orders, suppliers, and taxes. This enables a manager to quickly and accurately see what is happening and make appropriate decisions. These decisions include making timely orders from suppliers and keeping proper staffing levels at each location to ensure excellent customer service. The Customer Table contains data about customers to streamline the ordering process and helps with addresses and dates for special mailings. This simple tool allows Kudler’s to provide a personal touch along with better service. The Inventory Table determines available ingredients that make up an Item. For example, it is important for a baker to know how much flour he has in stock so that he/she can order more from a supplier before it runs out so that the company is always producing a product for the customer to buy. The Item Table lists all the finished goods that can be purchased from a particular store. Managers can make decisions about which products...
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...Differentiating Between Market Structure in Kudler Kudler Fine Foods is a strong competitive force in the marketplace. Kudler Fine Foods are a unique and have exclusive selection of fine foods and wine they offer. One of the main focuses is the gourmet experience offers, which is specific with the type of marketplace where Kudler competes. Kudler Fine Foods also have unique characteristics, such as providing a high-end selection of gourmet and organic products that cannot be found in other grocery stores. The products are reasonable prices therefore postulates a barrier currently and the future for companies to challenge. Kudler could improve their company by collecting customer surveys and evaluate to determine how Kudler’s products could be successful and how the gourmet experience was coming along. The strengths that resulted in the survey were that Kudler were higher than their competitors with their customer service. Kudler’s customers also resulted with the money that was spent and the quality of the food that satisfied and was appreciated. The strengths will allow the company to sustain itself in the marketplace. Some of the weaknesses from the surveys were how the marketing material used to display the food selections and the customer service. Kudler can resolve the issue by making the displays more attractive this will show as a high-end and appealing to customers. Customer service was a primary concern to Kudler and at the...
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...Thompson HRM/310 June 24, 2013 Dr. Lisoski Implementation of Change Process This is a follow up from Brenda Wagner, Director of Administration and Human Resources of Kudler Fine Foods, which requested a review the company’s employee files and other documents to assess its readiness for change. This paper will outline the on-going measurement of the changes within Kudler Fine Foods. The plan will outline the corporate culture and the organizational structure. Leadership will play a significant role with this project as we will examine the leadership styles. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr. In place will be a change management plan that will keep Kudler Foods moving forward in an ever changing climate. Included in the change management plan will be a plan for mitigating resistance to change. A leadership style for successful implementation of the changes and management/leadership practices will be identified that will contribute to the continuing success of the change. Leadership Style Based on organizational performance, leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. Autocratic leadership uses an autocratic style in which decisions...
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...Kudler Fine Foods System Solution Kudler Fine Foods System Solution Kudler Fine Foods was started by Kathy Kudler in 1998 and is a premiere gourmet grocery store with three different stores located in Southern California for those savvy shoppers who are searching for the finest meats, produce, cheeses, and wine. Customer satisfaction and very little competition are Kudler Fine Foods biggest strengths. However, their biggest weakness is the fact that even Kathy Kudler is the owner of the company; she is the sole person responsible for order replacement, inventory, and all other major business issues. Geographic expansion of the store and store profitability will suffer if Kudler Fine Foods does not diversify into e-commerce, if an Enterprise System is not developed to allow managers and executive to access real time information concerning store locations, and if new inventory and order replacement procedures are not developed to provide all store locations with necessary inventories and the ability to order the specialty items that Kudler Fine Foods is known for. Kudler's New Organizational Structure Kudler Fine Foods will need to adopt a new organizational structure in order for the proposed system solutions to be effective. Kathy Kudler currently is a one person show; she is responsible for all store inventory control and purchases and she travels to each store on a daily basis to manage the stores. This method of management and inventory control...
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...paper will state the primary reasons for our organization, Kudler Fine Food’s existence as it relates to their mission, vision, values, and goals. We will examine the organizational structure employed by Kudler Fine Foods, and identify the key positions that supports their structure. Identify and explain the steps of the collaboration process among the functional areas that must be employed to achieve organizational goals, and prepare an action plan to implement the collaboration process. Also, we will identify and provide an example of the use of lateral collaboration and vertical collaboration within Kudler, and prepare an action plan to use lateral and vertical collaboration. As well as recognize the key stakeholders and their roles needed to achieve the organizational goals, and recommend the collaborative interactions among the key stakeholders to facilitate the organization’s success. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. Because of the pressure on Kathy Kudler due to much traveling and the corporate life, Kathy decided to seek out other opportunities. Kathy found that cooking gourmet meals was a way that she would relieve stress, this sparked and opportunity that lead to the opening of the first Kudler Fine Foods 1998. Because of Kathy Kudler’s vision Kudler Fine Foods now operates out of three locations; Del Mar, La Jolla, and Encinitas. Kudler’s mission, “We will provide this service because we “shop the world”...
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...BSA/310: BUSINESS SYSTEMS Individual Kudlers Fine Foods is a popular food chain that sells high-end grocery from local and external suppliers. Their products include fresh baked pastries, specialty dairy selection, a broad cheese selection, variety of wines amongst other products (kudlerfinefoods, 2013) Kudlers Fine Foods magnificent growth has come through providing their customers with the finest selection of the very best quality products as well as customer service. With the intention of expanding further and hope to improve its sales, Kudler’s has realized that their number one priority must be customer service. To improve efficiency, they therefore want to increase the purchase cycle of their consumers by implementing a Frequent Shopper Program. This is a loyalty program in which will allow for their frequent shoppers to accumulate points that are redeemable for high end gift items and also specialty food items (Apollo Group, Inc., 2010). Kudlers’ has in the past faced challenges of keeping product inventories. While increasing customer satisfaction, the Frequent Shopper Program will as well help fix the retail store’s inventory challenges. It will help track the consumer’s shopping trends, information which will then be used to update inventories thus help the Kudler’s in stocking more of the items that their customers want leading to customer satisfaction. Despite the benefits that come with the Frequent Shopper Program, the project has potential legal, ethical...
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...Interrelationships Kudler Fine Foods has been a successful business right after its opening back in 1998. From the very beginning, Kudler Fine Foods was able to set their mission and have been using it as their compass to work toward continued success. Along the way, Kudler Fine Foods has been able to identify the key positions that support the company. This paper will describe how Kudler Fine Foods uses those key positions and functions to work together in a collaborative process between all the functioning groups allowing for a more streamline operation. Both lateral and vertical collaboration is needed in order to keep continued success. Finally, key stakeholders are identified and a description of their role in the collaborative process will be presented. These functional area interrelationships are what allow Kudler Fine Foods to continue being successful and hope for future expansion. In June of 1998, Kathy Kudler turned her passion of cooking and shopping for fine foods into her dream business of Kudler Fine Foods. She found refuge and stress relief from her high pressure job for a large defense contractor. Hoping that there were more people that shared the same passion as her, she opened her first store. Kudler’s mission was simple: “to provide our customers the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparalled consumer environment” (Kudler Fine Foods, 2014). By providing their customers the finest products and a knowledgeable staff, Kudler’s primary reason...
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...Abstract The Kudler Fine Foods is a high-end gourmet food store in San Diego with three different locations; La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. Each store has around 16,000 square feet of retail space, and each store is within a popular metropolitan shopping center (Apollo Group, 2004). The stores are known for possessing the finest high-quality foods; each store is divided into the following departments: Fresh Bakery and Pastries, Fresh Produce, Fresh Meat and Seafood, Cheeses and Special Dairy Products, and Condiments and Packaged Foods (Apollo Group, 2004). Kudler’s upscale specialty food store chain is doing something similar to other grocers, but adding an ingenious twist. As part of the company’s strategic objective to increase loyalty and profitability of consumers, Kudler Fine Foods is planning three objectives; expanding services, implementing a frequent shopper program, and increasing efficiency by reducing costs. Marketing Focus Kudler Fine Foods is a high-end gourmet food store located in San Diego. Kudler Fine Foods has three different locations, La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. Each store has around 16,000 square feet of retail space, and each store is within a popular metropolitan shopping center (Apollo Group, 2004). The stores are known for possessing the finest the high-quality foods; each store is divided into the following departments: Fresh Bakery and Pastries, Fresh Produce, Fresh Meat and Seafood, Cheeses and Special Dairy...
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...allowing for total organizational optimization. In an organization recognized for excellence, those departments are aligned so that the whole is actually more effective than the sum of the departments. Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. Riordan Manufacturing Inc. is a plastics manufacturer who specializes in plastic injection molding. The company is a fortune 500 company which is completely owned by Riordan Industries. The company is located in San Jose, California. Riordan Manufacturing has cutting edge research and development and the company’s Six Sigma and ISO 9000 certifications make this company a high quality focused organization (“Riordan Manufacturing, Inc., 2013”). Organizational Model The company uses a tall hierarchy or bureaucratic chart as their organizational model. This is said to be the organizational structure of Riordan Manufacturing due to the fact that the company has a CEO at the top level of the organization and numerous levels of management afterward. Riordan Manufacturing tends to be a complex organization that utilizes a long chain of command, similar to that of the military. Riordan’s management structure outlines many different ranks and each rank controls a minim area within the company. The organizational structure used by Riordan Manufacturing appears to be the most beneficial for the company because of the size of the company and also because there is a much more personal supervisory control over the employee. Also this structure is more authoritative...
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