...D’s Bakery Company Case Study A. Systems Documentation 1. Product/Service Design D’s bakery is a small establishment that sells few variations of breads. D’s bakery offers breads which are mostly known to the Ilonggo like the teren-teren, pan de coco, famous hot pandesal, and more. According to one of the sales ladies, they make and sell more or less 10 kinds of bread every day. The breads from D’s bakery are being sold at a cheap price. The price of their bread starts at Php 2. The breads are made with ingredients that can be easily found in the market. Although the owner won’t give the detailed list of ingredients, they say that everything included in the bread are just like any ordinary bread like wheat flour, yeast, and something they put on filled breads. 2. Capacity Plan Capacity needs include equipment, space, and employee skills. For the production of bread, since they are just a small bakery, they only have 2 bakers working with two (2) large ovens for the production of breads. It is located at their baking house at LaPaz, Iloilo City. At their bakeshop, they have assigned two salesladies to manage and sell the breads. They also have two person in-charge in checking the breads before they are put to the crates and delivered to the bakery. D’s bakery has the capacity to produce 75-100 pieces for each type of bread they have everyday. But with their pandesal, they produce 200-300 pieces a day. The number breads being produced is based on the...
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...Methods Paper Super Bakery, Inc. was founded by Franco Harris, formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers, in 1990. The corporation supplies healthy, vitamin enriched doughnuts and other baked goods, out of an initial desire to make a difference in the institutional food market by targeting school systems nationwide (Kimmel, 2009). While, the company experiences positive growth since its inception, Super Bakery is at the point where it needs to explore a costing system that can establish a more accurate product costing method that can, at minimum, improve control of overhead costs. What strategies did the management of Super Bakery, Inc. use? Formed as a virtual corporation, Super Bakery designed a business model that performs key strategic planning and business functions in-house while outsourcing all manufacturing components as a cost reductions strategy. Super Bakery successfully maximizes profits by outsourcing all other components such as sales, manufacturing, warehousing, and shipping to external companies (All Business, 2012). As a result, Super Bakery watched its profits successfully grow, on an annual basis by 20%, since its inception in 1990. Why did Super Bakery’s management think it was necessary to install an ABC system? Super Bakery, Inc. believed it was necessary to install an Activity-Based-System to maximize costs by adopting a more effective allocation method, instead of following a traditional one-stage costing system that would be out-dated for...
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...industries. Within the industrial segments, the processed food industry in Bangladesh represents one of the major potential sectors in terms of its contribution to value addition and employment. The sector accounts for over 22% of all manufacturing production and employs about 20% of labor forces. All food processing enterprises account for 2% of the GDP. The food processing industry in the country is heterogeneous in nature displaying greater diversity in size, technology, quality of products, processing, preserving, marketing, and distributions systems. The sector is primarily dominated by small and medium enterprises with their strong linkage to the local production and high potential for processing, value addition and export. There are nearly 700 processed food manufacturing enterprises in the country including home-made processing units, of which, at least 30 enterprises are processing fruits and vegetables. These include processing of bakery, confectionery, fruits and vegetables, cereals, dairy, carbonated and non carbonated fruit juices, drinks, other beverages and various other food items. Bangladesh itself with nearly 150 million population posses a huge domestic market for processed food. Its importance has been further multiplied due to its closer proximity to north eastern part of India with another over 70 million homogeneous people in terms of food habit and culture. The necessity inputs for bread, pastry and pasta products are: 1. Baking Oven and Accessories 2. Dough...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Automation Process of Accounting Information System ACC/542 Accounting Information Systems March 27, 2012 Kudler Fine Foods Accounting Information Systems Kudler Fine Foods (Kudler) is an upscale specialty food store chain in the San Diego, CA area. It was established in 1998 by its current owner Kathy Kudler, and since has expanded to three locations, all focused on providing the best quality bakery products, fresh produce and meats, condiments, packaged foods, cheese, specialty dairy products and fine wine (Apollo Group, Inc., 2011). Kudler currently uses a retail management system that includes a point of sale (POS) module for cash sales, QuickBooks software for payroll functions, Microsoft Access as a customer database, an Excel spreadsheet as an inventory tracker, and several other specific-area modules required to operate the system. Although the current software addresses most of Kudler's accounting information system (ACI) needs, team A recommends installing a new system that would centralize major accounting functions and automate some processes the company currently performs manually (Apollo Group, Inc., 2011). When choosing new accounting software, most companies have several options. These include custom solutions, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, and industry specific AIS. Team A recommends Kudler purchases an industry specific solution for several reasons. There are numerous businesses, for...
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...Recommendation to Sara Lee Corporation: IT utilization of e-commerce Lionel Warren & Hamjat Jallomy Bah Consultants Instructor: Professor Herniter Course: IS535 August 15, 2011 Abstract Information technology represents the future of global business. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinary with the widespread use of the internet. In order for companies to effectively compete, it is essential that they have e-commerce as part of their selling and buying strategy. Companies should also integrate e-commerce with their Customer Relationship Management. There are several e-commerce software systems on the market place. It is imperative in selecting software for a company that the appropriate decision is made for the type of software required to meet the company’s objectives and goals. Sara Lee Corporation has been in existence since 1956, but does not currently use e-commerce as part of its business strategy. In order to make a recommendation to Sara Lee Corporation, a review of the companies selling and buying methods will be done as well as how it compares to other companies who are utilizing e-commerce. Three Online Customer Management Software tools will be evaluated to determine which to recommend to Sara Lee Corporation. The expectation is that Sara Lee will incorporate CRM with e-commerce to better serve their customer base and improve on their bottom line. Sara Lee is a business-to-business company which means they are mostly...
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...are sourced only from certified suppliers with high standards of food safety assurance programmes, and these are subject to incoming quality inspections and tests to ensure that they conform to Gardenia‟s quality and safety specifications. | Inventory Management | Gardenia Bread are baked fresh daily so that consumers get the finest quality and freshest bread daily.Usually bread are sold till the inventory is empty, however for unsold bread, they would be sold to commercial fishponds and factory workers. Gardenia need to do so in order to maintain its reputation of ensuring its bread is fresh etc. (include citation)Research on whether Gardenia uses Inventory Management Software | Distribution | An efficient and effective distribution system is very important especially for companies dealing with food products like Gardenia.Therefore, Gardenia has to ensure that it is able to deliver the freshly baked bread quickly and efficiently every morning to some 3000 retail outlets in Singapore come rain or shine so that the bread remains fresh when it reaches the stores. Gardenia is able to do so with its efficient sales and delivery teams. (Research more on how gardenia manages its distribution network (e.g. vans))Since Gardenia bread are available in many different places and thus it is easily accessible, by increasing the visibility of Gardenia products, it will increases the convenient for consumers to buy Gardenia products and thus boosting the sales of its product.Gardenia Bread...
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...Categories of Production Processes 1. 2. 3. 4. Continuous Flow Process Line Process Batch Process Job Shop Max. # of total 1000 patients arrived before reaching cap. Variability: Classic Queuing arrival rate () in customers/hour • service rate () in customers/hour (avg. time for one customer = 1/) • # servers = s Therefore, capacity = _s*_ • Physics of Queues: M/M/1 system Performance Measures: Utilization: Average time in system = /( Average number in system = /( Average time in line = 1/( Average number in line = 1/( Probability of no waiting = 1 – Process Choice at King Soopers Bakery • Bread process – Flow process – High volume – Difficult and expensive to change capacity Servers (s) customers/hr./server arrivals ( customers/hr.) departures queue system • Pastry process – Batch process – Moderate volume and moderate automation • Custom Cakes – Job Shop – Low volume, and high skilled labor Curse of Variability Saturation Effect – Under variability, as utilization approaches 100%, the avg. number in the system approaches infinity Flow Time Capacity Cushion • Capacity utilization < 100% – Demand and process...
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...increase the efficiency of management, thus allowing management time to focus on the company core values. The reason KFF’s success and growth is because their strong core organizational values set forth by Kathy Kudler the owner. These values include the mindset of a small business culture, a customer oriented focus, and to provide quality gourmet foods for the customers’ greatest dining experience. Employing the invested technology will computerize the inventory and ordering system within KFF. This technology will save time, organize inventory, and reduce waste. The first option KFF is considering is hiring to help with purchasing and inventory control. The second option is training all managers to use a new automated system. Both options will contain some costs. However, by implementing an automated system KFF will save time, have better inventory control, and reduce waste for the organization. KFF is a small company so implementing an automated inventory and ordering system would be a significant new approach for the management. Kathy has solely and...
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...St New York, New York cell: (000)000-0000 johndoe@email.com OBJECTIVE Looking for a position that requires some of my hands on mechanical and electrical experience. Wanting a full time position. SUMMARY Seasoned industrial electrician and field service technician with experience in the power generation and manufacturing industries. Possesses excellent troubleshooting skills and repair experience with industrial electrical controls, large utility/power plant generators, AC/DC motors, VFDs, servo motors, hydraulics, pneumatics and electro-mechanical systems. Extensive motor rewind experience and basic PLC programming and troubleshooting experience. WORK EXPERIENCE Pearson’s (February 2013- June 2013) 1st shift maintenance (contract position) Worked directly under Engineer doing reconfiguration of doughboy automated packing equipment. Included troubleshooting and rewiring of each machine. Ralcorp frozen bakery (Sept 2011-Dec 2011) 1st shift production maintenance (contract position) Responsible for all bread ovens, mixers and freezers being used during production. All electrical trouble calls, plc programming issues and any other production related trouble calls. Trident Motley Mn (Dec 2010-Sept 2011) 3rd Shift Maintenance Lead Responsible for 3 maintenance techs ,scheduling PM’s, generating work orders, ordering/submitting parts requests, setting up machinery/changeovers. Was directly responsible for all Ishidia scale maint, calibration and repairs. ...
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...on how to increase the chances the Barilla’s management idea of JITD would be acceptable and provide the reasons why it should be considered worthwhile. Issue Identification Barilla is a large vertical integrated corporation that makes pasta and bread products with flourmills, pasta plants, and bakery-product factories locate throughout Italy. It has used traditional distribution system, which distributors checked their inventory levels and placed orders with Barilla. However, due to extreme variability in demand from its distributors, the traditional distribution system has strained Barilla’s manufacturing and logistics operations by increasing either inventory carrying costs or stock out costs. The main issue in this case is how to effectively implement Just-in-Time Distribution (JITD) system, which Barilla analyses, forecasts and delivers products to the distributors by requiring the distributors to share their sales data with Barilla. This in turn will decrease Barilla’s distribution costs, inventory levels, and ultimately makes the entire operation more effective. The following lists some other issues Barilla facing when the company tries to implement JITD system: 1. Data sharing: distributors are not willing to lose their control over managing their own inventory by sharing data with Barilla SpA. 2. Forecast techniques: Barilla does not have enough experiences and sophisticated techniques to forecast demand from distributors and retailers. 3. Manufacturing...
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...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 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...
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...1.0 Introduction of small business 1 In this assignment I would like to introduce the small business owner who selling and serving of hand phone. The shop name is BS Communication Enterprise is located at No 156, Jalan Siakap, 34300, Bagan Serai, Perak. The shop owner is Mr Ng Han Wah, have four workers, three female workers and one male worker to run the hand phone business. The job function of three female workers is at the front desk for sale and products introduction. The male worker is concentrate on repair and service of hand phone. Their business goal is to provide the best services in this area and providing good services even to a small base of people. BS Communication Enterprise shop 1.1 The business level strategy The business level strategy used is Cost leadership implies that the company has the ability to successfully under price its competition. Pricing strategy refers to how this small company uses pricing to achieve its strategic goals, such as offering lower prices to increase sales volume and to decrease backlog. They begin developing pricing strategies such as offering low price for slow moving items and very low margin profit for fast moving items to increasing cash flow, and warding off competition. They also take into account current market conditions when developing pricing strategies to ensure that the prices they choose fit market conditions. In addition, effective pricing strategy involves considering customers, costs, competition, and different...
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...specialists to screen applicant pools and only recommend qualified candidates for interviews. Without HR support, managers would have to perform all staffing activities and manage their employees' performance for reaching goals. Employee Development Organizations use different processes to ensure workers have enough opportunities to develop in their jobs. For example, employees are a source of future leaders. If employees are viewed as human capital, then the HR function must provide them with adequate opportunities for learning, including ongoing training and managers who guide their development. These ensures that workers are placed on a path to making a bigger contribution to the organization. Performance Management HR information systems offer data that management and HR experts can use to make decisions about employees. For example, management can review the latest results of an employee survey and decide what changes to implement in the workplace in response to employee concerns. Without such a decision-science approach to the working conditions for employees, management will miss an important chance to improve how talent is managed. Happy workers help an organization achieve its goals. Political Factors These factors represent the way and the extent to which a government influences the economy and a certain business. Political factors are represented by specific areas, such as labour law, tax policy, tariffs, trade restrictions and even environmental law. When political...
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...GADHWARA EMHEMED 815023 SUBMISSION DATE: 7th MAY 2014 Table of contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 COMPANY PROFILE 1 1.2 COMPANY VISION 2 1.3 COMPANY MISSION 2 1.4 COMPANY OBJECTIVE 2 1.5 COMPANY VALUES 2 1.6 HISTORY 4 1.7 TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM 5 1.8 COMPANY STRUCTURE 7 1.8.1 Structure of Fairy 7 1.9 ADVANTAGES 8 1.9.1 Fast decision making 11 1.9.2 High cohesion force 11 1.9.3 Convenient to control 11 1.9.4 Flexibility 11 1.10 DISADVANTAGES 12 1.10.1 Less asset 12 1.10.2 Hard to expand 12 1.10.3 Lose the good employees 12 CHAPTER 2: PESTEL ANALYSIS 16 2.1 JUSTIFICATION OF USING THE PESTEL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE 16 2.2 INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 18 2.3 SUMMARY OF PESTEL ANALYSIS OF FAIRY 19 2.4 CONCLUSION 20 CHAPTER 3: THE COMPETITIVE FORCES IN BAKERY INDUSTRY 21 3.1 RIVALRY AMONG EXISTING FIRMS 22 3.2 BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS 25 3.3 THREAT OF NEW ENTRIES 28 3.4 BARGAINING POWER OF SUPPLIERS 31 3.5 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS / SERVICES 33 CHAPTER 4: SWOT ANALYSIS 36 4.1 STRENGTHS 36 4.1.1 High quality machine 36 4.1.2 Fresh daily product and zero preventives 36 4.1.3 Market niche 36 4.1.4 Loyal suppliers 37 4.1.5 Word of mouth advertisements 37 4.1.6 Strong financial 37 4.1.7 Halal certificate of the product 37 4.1.8 Focus on low and middle income customers 37 4.1.9 Strong customers’ loyalty 38 4.1.10 Loyal employees 38 4.2 WEAKNESSES...
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...she has built the company into an expanding entity. The following is a discussion of strategy implementation, technology and opportunities, strategic recommendations and external forces to be aware of. Most growing companies have used information technologies (IT) to enhance operations and improve customer service. Mrs. Kudler has plans to add to the inventory and ordering automation by introducing new e-commerce capabilities and an online catering link (Kudler Fine Foods Portal, Strategic Plan, pgs 15-16). Strategic Information Systems have the ability to amplify strengths into potential sustainable competitive advantage. For example, British Airways implemented customer service online and self checking at the airports. Though the restructuring effected employee morale due to job loss, the company increased in efficiency and cost leadership. Mrs. Kudler is known for her kindness and generosity to employees, so the company will only prosper with new IT applications. Two main approaches of Strategic Information Systems are mostly used: inwardly focused and outwardly focused. An inwardly focused system is “focused on enhancing the competitive position of the firm by increasing employees’ productivity, improving teamwork and enhancing communication” (Turban et al., Chapter 13, pg 3). Companies that develop a unifying strategic theme aligned with business unit activities have more of a chance of survival than the mirroring...
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