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This report is based on the comparison between two organizations that deals with the Retail Company that operates hypermarkets. The report consists of a comparison between Canadian business and Indian business. For this project I have chosen Canada’s Walmart and India’s D’mart the Canadian Walmart is the multinational retail corporation.And Indian D’mart deals within India only.

Every company will focus on supplying a service, product, or both. How and where the product is made plays a crucial role in the company’s success. In order to help visualize how the products are made process maps are formatted. These process maps can help to identify areas that need improvement. In order to implement improvement, process development will be implemented. The form of good that a company supplies is also important and to ensure that the best product is distributed product development is conducted. Target Corporation is a complex company, which provides consumers with their necessities.

Founded in 1997, Subhiksha had grown from one store in 1997 to more than 1000 retail outlets in 2008. It sold FMCG, grocery, pharmacy, mobile products, and fruits and vegetables (F&V). It was the largest supermarket and mobile retail chain in India with presence in 90 cities. Although organized retail was identified as a high-growth area by the middle of 2008, players had realized that organized retail in India was going to be tough business. Various players (Reliance, Bharti, Birla, and the Future Group) were experimenting with different formats and models. Subhiksha decided to come

Which of the following is not a process commonly considered in making products or delivering servicesA.continuousB.batchC.repetitiveD.job shopE.subcontracting 34. The type of processing system which is used for highly standardized products isA.continuousB.intermittentC.projectD.batchE.unit 35. Behavioral approaches to job design includeA.SpecializationB.ErgonomicsC.Job RotationD.Flow Process ChartsE.SIMO Charts 36. A major advantage of job specialization in business is increased _________.A.motivationB.opportunity for advancementC.opportunity for self-fulfillmentD.productivityE.job enrichment 37. Nearness to raw materials would be most important to a (A.grocery storeB.tax preparation serviceC.manufacturing companyD.post officeE.hospital 38. A one-hour photo processing machine in a Wal-Mart store is an example of a _________.A.micro-factoryB.downsize strategyC.diversified strategyD.lean production systemE.falling price strategy 39. A tool that is not used for quality management is ________.A.FlowchartB.HistogramC.Perato AnalysisD.RedesignE.Check sheets 40. The four dimensions of quality that are sometimes used to determine fitness for use of a product are ______.A.performance, special features, durability, and service after saleB.performance, special features, conformance, and reliabilityC.special features, conformance, reliability, and durabilityD.performance,

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For this research assignment, I chose Big Lots. The reason I decided on Big Lots is primarily, because I am very interested in home decorating and in High School I lived very close to a Big Lots store, so I shopped there often. While in college, I moved from campus to my apartment and I visited them quite a bit. In this paper I’ve described the history, retail strategy, and competitive advantage of the Big Lots store I researched.

Flowcharts are used to explain a process clearly using symbols and text at a single glance. Another type of mapping that can be utilized is hierarchical process mapping. This type of mapping differs from others because it shows relationships with a supporting process. This form also provides links for presenting process records. Some people may believe that this type of mapping is more complicated. It creates a visual version of the work flow that occurs within a process. This process can either be operational or business. This is presented in a top-to-bottom diagram. It depicts the process in more detailed as the user moves through the different levels (Pojasek, 2005.)

A distinguished structure that is present in today’s retail environment is a shopping centre. A shopping centre is where multiple stores presenting different merchandisers are formed under a building and allocated through a leasing agency. Shopping centers are aimed towards middle income suburban residents who are mobile. A shopping centre has controlled walkways which enable consumers to walk from store to store. Plenty of effort is put into developing the design of a shopping centre, thus increasing the amount of time people spend shopping. The

Space Age Furniture Company uses a process layout that helps manage its operation efficiently. Besides that, there is the use of barcodes which help tell the various steps in which each work is. After a given process is finished, the worker removes the sticker of the bar code and takes it to the office where the details are transferred to the computer through scanning thus keeping track of all the job units in the company that directs to a finished product. These tracking reports are used in the management of inventories and accounting records. Hence, this improves the working of the enterprise. The management can also be able to foretell when a given process can be finished and be delivered to their customers. This helps reduce the costs

•  India's $250 billion retail business is the eighth largest in the world and has the potential to grow 7 per cent by 2011. [McKinsey Report] For a company already dominating the world markets, this is an un-passable opportunity.

Layout strategy: the company arranges the facilities of products oriented and resolves sanitary issues that require intensive effort in processing material to produce high quality with low cost of output.

In the retail environment, Urban Outfitters’ marketing strategy continues to establish an emotional bond with the customer, fulfilling their wants and desires. In store, “every element of the environment is tailored to the aesthetic preferences of [the] target customers” (URBN 10K, 2009; Levy & Weitz, 2012). These retail stores are typically located in large student cities, in high profile areas such as high streets and speciality retail centres to maximise visual publicity (Davies, 1991). URBN’s website explains that “stores are often located in unconventional retail spaces”, for example, a former theatre, bank, stock exchange and the Marble Arch in London (URBN 10K, 2009). Indeed, Steve Briars, Creative Director at Urban Outfitters says that their stores are purposely different to other brands’ stores to position themselves above rival competition, but that also in their interior design, “roughly 50%” of Urban Outfitters stores are different from each other, where the “existing retail space is modified” to provide a unique, bespoke experience (Hackley, 2009; URBN 10K, 2009; retailweek.com, 2013). For example, upon opening, London’s Marble Arch flagship store used visual sight dimension tactics by creating a 1,000sqft square hole in its ground floor, “providing sightlines to what is in the basement” (Bitner, 1992; retailweek.com, 2013). This can be

In India, the middlemen between the producer and the retailer also played a prominent role in the retail and wholesale industries. Walmart’s proposal was to cut out these middlemen and to connect the producers directly to the retailers, in order to reduce the inefficiencies in India’s traditional supply chain. This was to be implemented through the joint venture, wherein Bharti would manage the retail store operations and Walmart would focus on logistics capabilities and building the supply chain. However, cutting out middlemen would create more opposition to Walmart’s presence in India. Notwithstanding the benefits that Walmart could bring to India, the retail lobby increased its protest against Walmart’s entry to the Indian retail

Although traditional stores are good for urban construction, online shopping can bring more economic benefits. According to Resnick, we can know that in shopping malls there was a great decline in shoppers and transactions (p.1127). With the rise of the Internet, online retail is becoming more and more popular in India, and it lead to a lot of important online retailers and others entering online business (Tandon, pp.1657-1658). As we all know, every year the double eleven breaks the record of trading volume. This year, people spent 16.82 billion RMB on the day of the double eleven. That means online shopping is becoming increasingly important, and more and more people are shopping on the internet, and it also means that other related industries are developing well. Especially, online shopping has promoted the development of express delivery industry. In china, a few years ago, it is difficult to deliver a package and many places cannot receive it. But it changed now, many express companies appeared and the express route is getting better. People can easily get their express from all over the world. What’s more, many people start businesses on the internet, because opening an online store is cheaper than opening a store. They do not need to pay expensive rents and spend large amounts of money to decorate their store, so that saves the cost of opening a store. Therefore, it provides lots

When we create a product or provide a service, such as developing software, writing a report, generate a business analysis, we always follow a series of ordered steps to accomplish a set of tasks. To correctly produce an intended output, the tasks must be completed as specific order, we can consider a set of ordered tasks as a process, involving activities, constraints, and resources. When the process involves the building of some