...Functional Area Interrelationships This 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...
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...Career Development Plan Summary HRM 531 Kudler Fine Foods: Career Development Plan Summary In 1998, Kathy Kudler had a vision to start her own gourmet food shop. Over ten years later, her wish has been realized by Kathy and her business continues to be well received in the neighborhood. Now Kudler Fine Foods has a straight more daring vision to eventually become the premier gourmet grocery shop for everybody seeking the best meat, create, cheese, and wine. Kathy should form a management team effective at managing growth, if the firm is anticipated to develop past the three shops already in-operation. To satisfy this type of challenge, Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) is promoting a fresh team of workers, developing a mentoring program, efficiency evaluation method, compensation plan, and strategy for improving performance along with the professional goals of each and every worker. New Employee Positions Since the conception of the first Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler has been involved in every decision. In fact, not only has she made the decisions, but she has carried them out as well. The following positions reduce Kathy's individual responsibilities so she can oversee the opening of a new store and the future expansion of KFF across the region. Regional Manager The Regional Manager oversees all the currently operating stores and their store managers. The Regional Manager also maintains communication and directly reports with Kathy Kudler to keep her informed of store events and...
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...PR Campaign-Kudler Fine Foods Bill Hussey MKT/438 October 31, 2011 Tammy Fernandez PR Campaign-Kudler Fine Foods As an organization Kudler Fine Foods is experiencing security issues associated with operating on the Internet. Learning Team A will act as the public relations team and will create and identify ways to address the issue. This paper will focus on the target audience for the public relations campaign, discuss ethical implications related to the public relation issues, develop a market research plan to support our PR campaign, analyze how the public relation campaign will affect the marketing function, and analyze the similarities and differences between proactive and reactive public relation. Organization’s Public Relations Issues Kudler Fine Foods is experiencing security issues associated with operating on the Internet. One Public Relations issue that Kudler’s is going to face is reassuring consumers the safety of their credit card information. Another issue is consumer privacy. The consumers will need reassuring that their home addresses were not accessed, keeping their privacy. When Kudler’s Internet was accessed, some of their accounts were gotten into. Kudler Fine Foods will have to reassure the company’s product providers that the information of the provider’s other consumers were not accessed because of to Kudler’s security issues. Both the consumers and the product providers will have to be reassured that safety has been taken to insure...
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...Advanced Web Development/WEB 407 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store offering imported and domestic fare including baked goods, meats & seafood, produce, cheese & dairy, and wine. With three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas), Kudler’s mission is to provide their customers with, “…the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparalleled consumer environment” (Apollo Group Inc. 2009). In an effort to increase customer convenience and business revenue, Kudler Fine Foods wants to sell their products on the internet. By adding both item inventory and online ordering pages to their current site, Kudler Fine Foods can accomplish this goal. There are, however, additional systems necessary on the back-end to make this system possible. According to TheConsumerCollective website (2010), “E-commerce spending continues to outpace analyst’s predictions… spending will reach $259 billion in 2014, and $278.8 billion by 2015” (Suetos, 2010). Over the past few years, customer confidence with online shopping has increased significantly. Customers feel more at ease with purchasing their products from online retailers than they did just years ago. This proposal will demonstrate the major components necessary for Kudler Fine Foods to begin offering their products online. It will discuss the database design, how the scripting language PHP will be set up to provide a “shopping cart” for ease...
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... Kudler Fine Foods is a small franchise of three stores currently. Each store provides the quality of service you would expect from a specialty store. Even though small in size the product selection is large. The current operating system each store has needs to be upgraded. All stores should run the same equipment requirements and software. Initially there would be cost involved for the upgrade but it is definitely a well worth investment to improve sales inside the stores and online. Adding the feature of ordering online would boost sales. Kathy Kudler would be able to create this online ordering site from within the current site or she could bring someone in to create it. Again it would be a well worth investment. Kudler Fine Foods is an amazing company but the website lacks information and customer satisfaction. When a customer visits the Kudler Fine Foods website we want them to experience the very best customer service while allowing them to want to revisit. We have to improve a lot of problems with the Kudler Fine Foods website to better help our customers and in order to do that we are going to improve the websites appearance, improve communication, which will include a 1-800 number for customers if they have a problem, create a FAQ page/email and most importantly upgrade the computer systems and software at all 3 locations for uniformity. The purpose of this project is to improve how customers view our company and to better manage our business. We at Kudler...
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...Kudler Fine Foods Website Evaluation Team A/ J. Orr, M. Hamill, C. Schwab, D. Burtch, E. Brown, K. Hubbard, & L. Sizemore Web/240 Constantinos Rousos 5/11/2015 DETAILED ANALYSIS OF KUDLER FINE FOODS SITE BASED ON DESIGN CRITERIA Kudler Fine Foods is known for dedicating their business towards catering specialty food choices through pleasing shopping experiences. So, after considerate analysis of Kudler Fine Foods website, we have determined that an implementation of all "alt" tags would enhance interactions with potential visitors considerably. By implementing better-selected images, Kudler Fine Foods will provide visitors with more intriguing visual content through imagery and informational media files. By using these, implementations this will ultimately enhance Kudler’s visitor’s interest more towards their actual products. With each of their locations built on 16,000 square feet, providing customers with some of the best domestic and imported specialty foods, a good enhancement within the visual concepts throughout the website should be considered as well. Also, suggestions for the creating of pop-up window hyperlinks for each item throughout the website would ultimately enhance user interactive measure. Will help provide interested customers with a great shopping experience even as they browse throughout Kudler website! By implementing fastest content load ability through optimization for mobile browsing, Kudler will enhance it visitor respond time...
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...Proposal Our firm has been working with Kudler Fine Foods for several weeks implementing a new accounting information system (AIS) that will assist with the process of payroll, inventory, accounts receivable and payables along with the daily sales. The current AIS that have been implemented will address the systems integrity and the new system will help KFF to ensure that the data is accurate and reliable for the preparation of the financial statements for the organization. Now that the new accounting information system has been set up it is now time to perform an audit of KFF internal controls. In order to do this we will take a look at the different types of audits that maybe used for each process. Then recommend the audit that will most fit the needs of KFF as well as give an explanation of how the audit will be conducted. KFF will also be informed of events that might prevent the reliance on auditing through the computer. An audit for IT involves evaluating the computer’s role for achieving audits and control objectives. These audits look at the components for the AIS for the users, procedures, hardware, software, data communications and the database. According to Bagranoff, Simkin, and Norman (2008) there are four main types of IT audits and they are attestation, findings and recommendations, SAS # 70 and last but not least SAS # 94. The purpose of this audit is for Kudler Fine Foods to gain an understanding of the business functions as well as to evaluate the AIS...
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...Marketing Research Paper MKT/421 Marketing Research Paper Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale food store in San Diego metropolitan area and has three locations in LaJolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. Kathy Kudler was the founder of Kudler Fine Foods and started the first location in June 1998. Each store is approximately 8,000 square feet and offers products ranging in bakery and pastry products, fresh produce, fresh meat and seafood, condiments and packaged foods, cheese and specialty dairy products, and wine. The company mission is to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing. The staff is helpful and knowledgeable and will go to extensive lengths to ensure that Kudler Fine Foods is the purveyor of choice for customers aspiring to purchase the finest delights. Kudler Fine Foods shops around the world to offer fines foods with reasonable budgets for consumers. Kudler Fine Foods will continue to be successful by understanding the importance of market research, identifying areas where additional market research is needed, and analyzing the importance of competitive intelligence and analysis regarding the development of the company’s marketing strategy and tactics. Importance of Marketing Research The importance of marketing research is a process to define a marketing problem and opportunity to resolve the issue. Marketing research systematically collects and analyzes data, and recommends actions to the organization. The purpose for marketers is to help...
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...Learning Team A: Lisa Laurenzo, Bambi Snyder, Oscar Paulino, & Edsel Abreu Audit Proposal ACC/542 Accounting Information Systems Instructor: Anita Rodriguez Audit Proposal Kudler Fine Food has expanded their business and has updated their computer systems to meet demands. As IT information is adopted within the organization, automation control processes have become more virtualized. To ensure that KFFs computerize systems function properly an audit must be performed on an annual basis. Management at Kudler Fine Foods wants to see the proposed audit schedules for all systems. Management wants to know the types of audit and how they will be conducted. In addition, management would like to know about events that might prevent reliance on auditing through the computer. There are four types of IT audits: attestation audits, findings and recommendations audits, SAS 70 audits, and statement auditing standards (SAS) 94 audits. During an attestation audit, the auditor provides assurance the client is responsible for something. After the responsible party makes the assertion of a letter to the auditor, the auditor begins the audit of the company. The auditor examines, reviews, or performs an agreed-upon procedure (AUP) and provides a written report to the responsible party on their findings. The AUP report is usually a negative assurance report stating what it was asked to do and any findings to provide feedback to the user. The SAS 70 audit stands for the “State on Auditing...
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...Learning Team C Week Five Assignment Score Sheet TEAM This is a very good attempt at putting together a system concept for the Kudler Fine Food project. You presented a clear definition of what the Kudler Fine Food Frequent Shopper project was to look like. However, there are some areas that you need to reconsider. I enjoyed reading your paper. General comments: See my comments in your paper. You need to do a thorough review of grammar and spelling. - Grammar, spelling, and/or sentence structure errors detracted from this write up. See my comments in the paper. You need to do a better job at proofing your work for grammar and spelling errors. Take advantage of the Center for Writing Excellence tools. This paper had several APA Style errors. I have indicated in red on this score sheet those sections that did not earn maximum points. I have included my comments in your paper. A commented copy of your paper follows these comments and the scoring matrix. Comments in red text or highlighted in green are deficient. Disregard comments highlighted in yellow – my marking used for grading or gray – information I copied from a different area of your paper. Let me know if you have any questions. Disregard highlights in yellow. I use these to track through your papers. |Subject |Points |Points Earned | | ...
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...Business Need Kudler Fine Foods wants an application designed to send out a monthly newsletter and coupons using demographic data from the customer database. The internal stakeholders that would be affected by the newsletter and coupons is the organization's staff. The staff would have to know the contents of the monthly newsletter and also what coupons are being sent out. The customers and suppliers would be affected as the external stakeholders. The customers will receive the newsletter along with coupons, encouraging the sale of promotional goods. The suppliers would be affected because the promotional goods would have to be available from them. Kudler would not want promotional goods unavailable. The risks of designing an application to generate a monthly newsletter and coupons for Kudler Fine Foods is minimal. The initial cost of the application would be recouped from the increased sales from promotional items. Depending on the media used, email or letter mail, to send customers the newsletter and coupons, there would be a very minimal monthly cost after the initial application cost. The newsletter and coupons would also function as marketing and advertising for the organization. The application will utilize the demographic information stored in the customer database in order to generate the monthly newsletter and coupons. The coupon details will be controlled by the purchasing manager. The coupons will be tracked at point of sale in order to determine the effectiveness...
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...Frequent Shopper Program Robert Furmanek BSA 375 July 15, 2013 Karen G. Knox Kudler Fine Foods Project Charter Prepared: June 20, 2013 Project Name: Service Request SR-kf-013 Project Manager: Kathy Kudler Customer: Kudler Fine Foods Project Sponsor: Kathy Kudler Project Start / End (projected :) Project Overview Service Request Sr-kf-013 is the implementation of a Frequent Shopper Program at Kudler Fine Foods. The information system created will collect information of every purchase of a loyal customer, keep track of their purchases, and provide point systems for loyal customers to receive a discount on certain items. Objectives Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) was established in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Kudler is based in southern California and offers a wide array of high-end food products and wines. Kudler has currently three locations (La Jolla, California, Encinitas, California, and Del Mar, California. KFF is interested in development of a project request for a frequent shoppers rewards program (SR-kf-013) that consists of a brand new system that will track their customer’s purchases through a frequent shopper program. This new tracking system will award Kudler’s valued customers with loyalty points that can be redeemed for sale incentives made through the company and its partnership with a variety...
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...Integrative Network Design NTC/362 Integrative Network Design Project Kudler Fine Foods is one of the biggest and fastest growing food companies in the Unites States. Because of this fast expansion there are expected and often increased goals that must be done in order to keep all parts of the company working as they should. One of these areas that must be kept up to date and secured at all times is its integrated network. Again because of the company’s recent growth there will be challenges that will happen especially with the network so a good integrative network design must be developed in order to continue this positive trend both in present and in the future. Kudler Fine Foods is taking the next step to upgrade the existing infrastructure with new wireless technology which will provide a better communication link for not only all of the stores, but for all of the employees as well. Kudler Fine Foods wants to implement a new network design that will connect their three locations that is spreaded out across the U.S. With the new systems and servers the ability to maximize the company’s profits will increase overnight. This new inventory system will allow the stores POS systems to alert the warehouses to ship more products when they are running low automatically. This will eliminate the need of wasted man hours checking the stock. Using a Wide Area Network (WAN) would be the best choice for connecting the three locations together. They also want to implement a...
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...Project Management Project CMGT/410 Kudler Fine Food Implementation Project Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is a privately owned California-based gourmet food store founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Kudler Fine Foods has three stores in La Jolla, Del Mar, and El Encinitas, California. KFF offers high-end products and markets them in upscale neighborhoods. KFF has expressed an interest in the development of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to improve business administration and integrate stores and business systems. The desired results from a successful implementation of the ERP: devising more informed decision-making strategies, streamlining sales and business processes across the three stores and integration all functional business systems for effective business management. This document serves as a project plan to define necessary information and detail for the development and implementation of the Kudler Fine Foods ERP system in reference to Service Request SR-kf-004. Background and Statement of Need Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty food store that currently has three locations in the San Diego metropolitan area. The stores stock specialty foods that are both domestic and imported and are also perishable. The owner is in the process of opening two additional stores as well as developing a website that consumers would be able to make purchases and the stores would be able to track inventory and stock as well. In addition...
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... Kudler Fine Foods Network: Final Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is on their way to upgrading their present network infrastructure with better wireless technology that will provide an improved communication medium both for the stores and employees. This will help maximizing the company’s profits with the aid of the new systems and servers performance. The new inventory system will let a store’s POS system to alert the warehouses that they need to ship more products already when the store is running low in stock. This will eliminate or at least make the man-hours needed in checking the stock. VoWLAN (Voice over WLAN) is the one to provide all the communications needed to be done by taking or making calls while providing the services needed by the customers by using the same medium. Other technological Advances will provide real-time network analysis and security monitoring which will bring overall benefits to the Kudler Company. Network Overview Kudler’s network infrastructure is now becoming very old. The stores are on separate networks so the bus network topology that they have does not allow effective communication already. This is a major problem because of the fact of lacking central location for network servers and backups or security set-up. This is the reason an enterprise wireless WAN is being rolled out. This is essential as this will provide mobility to the company, which is the future truss of most of the business entities. The WLAN will...
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