Week 4: Operations Paper Jamie Franklin BSA 502 April 15, 2013 James Francisco PhD Week 4: Operations Paper History Kudler Fine Foods was established in 1998. The owner, Kathy Kudler has a passion for gourmet foods and found that her neighborhood did not have any shops available to buy her desired specialty food and wine. She currently has three stores open and visits each store frequently. Kathy does all the ordering for all three stores on a weekly basis. She orders in bulk for all three
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Overview of Management Kudler Fine Foods is a virtual organization. This paper will identify the primary functions of management, while describing who is responsible for each function at Kulder. Explain how technology and the internet are currently being used by Kudler and how they both affect Kudler’s management. This paper will also give an example from Kudler Fine Foods illustrating each of the five forces from the Porter’s model. Primary Functions of Management Kudler Fine Food is a specialty
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Kudler Fine Foods uses Anne Shousha as its legal counsel. Anne is Kathy Kudler’s sister-in-law and is a successful tax attorney working with a major accounting firm in San Diego, CA. Kathy is the only person in the company that talks with Anne. Other than a standing order that any "slip and fall" accidents are to be immediately reported to Kathy, each store manager is free to determine what legal issues need to be referred to Kathy. Once an issue is reported to Kathy, she will decide whether to
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Project Plan Statement of Scope and Goals: Scope: The scope of this project is to provide Kudler Fine Foods with the ability to track individual customer purchases. These purchases are to be monitored as Loyalty Points for later redemption by the customer. The purpose of this project is to develop a system that tracks customer purchases through a Frequent Shopper Program thereby increasing revenue. Stakeholders: • The Customer: The entire process begins with someone who would like to purchase
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management helps them make the transition smoother. Kudler Fine Foods is an organization that is no exception and is in need of the change management program. Recently, this particular organization decided to make changes in relation to working patterns, and now the concentration will be in the sales operations department of the organization, which most likely will benefit the organization as a whole and will be an overall change. . Kudler Fine Foods has a supervision of operations department
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Request SR-kf-013 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods (KFF), an upscale specialty gourmet foods shop with three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas), has documented interest in the development of a Frequent Shopper Program to allow enhanced information management by tracking customer-purchasing trends. This request is in an effort to boost revenue, increase loyalty, and maximize profitability of KFF’s consumers. Providing a loyalty points system to offer incentives for customer loyalty
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deliver their goods on a regular basis. The internet has made purchasing much simpler for a business by providing internet-based services to allow purchasing for business products (Nickels et al. 2010). Utilizing the internet-based purchasing service, Kudler can find the best items at the best price (Nickels et al. 2010). Purchasing items online can reduce the cost of merchandise enormously by purchasing items that are need for the customers. . Kudler’s current purchasing plan for goods and services
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Virtual Organization Strategy for Kudler Fine Foods For many organizations, strategic decisions play an important role in how the organization plans to expand its business and its profits. There are many factors management must consider before making a final decision as to which approach will provide the most benefits as well as bringing in the most capital. Each approach considered will present strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks that management must carefully consider. Each approach
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Kudler’s Fine Food Accounting Assessment Abstract This brief will identify key business and accounting information needs within Kudler’s Fine Food as well as analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of their current computer system and technology use, which includes their hardware and software. The brief will furthermore explain the opportunities Kudler has as far as technology and provide recommendations for improving Kudler’s ability to capitalize on these opportunities. And lastly, will evaluate
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appraisal system is poorly developed or if a supervisor lacks the appropriate training to collect and evaluate performance data” (Milkovich and Newman, 2004, ch. 11, p. 80). Kudler Fine Foods needs to create a way to evaluate the employee’s performance. This paper will create a performance appraisal for the employees and help supervisors determine salary increase. Each job classification will be defined with competencies or skills. The competencies assigned to each job classification for Kudler Foods
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