Case Study 1: Lew-Mark Baking Company
The Company
The Lew-Mark Baking Company is located in a small town in western New York State.The bakery is run by two brothers. Lew and Mark, who formed the company after theypurchased an Archway Cookie franchise. With exclusive rights in New York and New Jersey,it is the largest Archway franchise. The company employs fewer than 200 people, mainly bluecollar workers, and the atmosphere is informal.
The Product
The company’s only product is soft cookies, of which it makes over 50 varieties. Larger companies, such as Nabisco, Sunshine, and Keebler, have traditionally produced biscuit cookies, in which most of the water has been baked out, resulting in crisp cookies. Archway cookies have no
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Quality
The bakery prides itself on the quality of its cookies. A quality control inspector samples cookies randomly as they come off the line to assure that their taste and consistency are satisfactory, and that they have been baked to the proper degree. Also, workers on the line are responsible for removing defective cookies when they spot them. The company has also installed an X-ray machine on the line that can detect small bits of metal filings that may have gotten into cookies during the production process. The use of automatic equipment for transporting raw materials and mixing batter has made it easier to maintain a sterile process.
Scrap
The bakery is run very efficiently and has minimal amounts of scrap. For example, if a batch is mixed improperly, it is sold for dog food. Broken cookies are used in the oatmeal cookies. These practices reduce the cost of ingredients and save on waste disposal costs. The company also uses heat reclamation: The heat that escapes from the two ovens is captured and used to boil the water that supplies the heat to the building. Also, the use of automation in the mixing process has resulted in a reduction in waste compared with the manual methods used previously. New Products
Ideas for new products come from customers, employees, and observations of competitors’ products. New ideas are first examined to determine whether the cookies can be made with existing equipment. If so, a sample run is
The main goal of the Cookies unit was to solve the Unit Problem. The unit problem introduced us to the Woos, the owners of a cookie bakery. The Woos want to find the most profitable combination of plain and iced cookies to bake and sell in their store. We were given several constraints for this problem. According to the Woo’s recipes, a dozen normal cookies requires one pound of cookie dough, and a dozen iced cookies requires .7 pounds of cookie dough. The Woo family only has 110 pounds of cookie dough in stock, which will affect the number of cookies that can be made. The iced cookies also need icing, obviously. A dozen of iced cookies required .4 pounds of icing and the Woos only have 32 pounds of icing in stock.
Kristen’s Cookies is conveniently located on campus and will cater to hungry students late at night. The company will not only let the students customize their cookies, but also bake them fresh. Students will have a wide variety of ingredients to choose from and this bake to order concept will ensure that cookies are to consumer’s liking. Based on this model, order qualifiers are the physical location of the company and the order winners are the unique and freshly baked cookies.
1. How has technology been applied to the food production process? Give/describe at least 3 examples.
Wilson’s Bakery is a friendly café business that serves great products located in Alaska. Since the climate area is usually cold, some of the products will consist of hot herbal tea, variety pastries, soups, etc. The objective of this company is to build a strong market niche in the suburban development because there is minimum experience within the market area. Presently, the area has some restaurants and a few bakery cafés. Wilson’s Bakery will serve all its customers lower, middle, and upper income by providing its products within reasonable prices and rendering services that will put a smile on the face of its customers.
5. As the Gantt diagram shows the electric mixer is not used for a long time within the process, so only one mixer is needed. Buying a new one will not increase the productivity of the process. The number of baking trays equals the maximum number of trays you will be using at any time. The highest volume of production is if three-dozen orders are produced continuously (s. Gantt diagram). The three activities that require a tray are filling the tray, baking and
The founhder of the company, Godfrey Keebler, started with jus a small bakery in Philadelphia, PA in 1853. During the next two generations, local bakeries popped up around the country, including Strietmann, Hekman, Supreme and Bowman. With the introduction of cars and trucks (carrying the Keebler logo), bakery goods could be distributed beyond the neighborhood and regional distribution began.
Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale store in the food retail industry,that was founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. They have now established three stores in three major locations in the San Diego Metropolitan area those three locations are La, Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. ( Apollo Group, 2009)
Thesis- Finding your favorite pastry can be very hard with so many choices to choose from; however, when examining cookies or cupcakes one notices cookies are far more superior due to their convenience, flavors, and quality.
The purpose of our experiment was to the percent compositions of two different types of store bought sandwich cookies and a sandwich cookie recipe. We will do this by determining the masses of the crème parts, the masses of the cookie parts, and the masses of the whole sandwich cookies, and using each respectively to calculate percent compositions of all three types of sandwich cookie. We will then compare the percent composition of each cookie to the other cookies and to our hypothesized percent compositions to see how similarly the brands and recipe make their cookies and if our hypothesis was correct. Based on the percent compositions we calculate, we can discuss why manufacturers would make their cookies with those ratios of ingredients, taking into account the cost of each ingredient, which may cause manufacturers to put less of an expensive ingredient in the cookie and more amounts of cheaper ingredients.
The objective of Thomas Foods is to insulate the company from the financial blow of substantial increments in the costs of delivering from neighboring farmers. The main factor that would cause this adjustment in value that Thomas Foods should not worry about is the conceivable fluctuation of weather conditions. Thomas Foods are keen on deciding if hedge accounting would be the best answer for protecting the company's operating pay, and they have hired me as a consultant to additionally investigate this issue. 1. My thorough research process on the topic has driven me to reason that hedge accounting works best when the transaction is made with the first source.
A long-time friend insists that Natalie has to somehow include cookies in her business plan. After a series of brainstorming sessions, Natalie settles on the idea of operating a cookie-making school. She will start on a part-time basis and offer her services in
The bottleneck operation would be the speed of operation, which is time you spend in preparing and baking. The speed with which you can produce cookies depends on the cycle time of baking. If we can rent another oven, it will increase our efficiency in order to make more cookies with lower cost. Because mixer can mix ingredients for up to three dozens cookies, each oven can hold a tray per time. This change would give us solution for production constraints. After increasing capacity of oven, it will make us start our new orders every 5 minutes and 7.5 dozens per hour. So we are willing to pay $200-$300 to rent an extra oven.
Manny Flavors Cookie Company (MFCC) is a reputable family owned business that has been in operations since 1889. Now in its fourth generation of ownership, MFCC’s sales have flourished and it is important that the business continue to grow to its fullest potential. Despite the success of the company, MFCC is currently experiencing problems on the operating floor. Willie Keepum, Vice President of Operations at the company, wishes to terminate all of the employees because he believes that many of the employees have a negative attitude and have become complacent about the quality of the product. Disregarding the opinions of the mid-level managers, he believes that firing the employees will show the workers who is in charge because there is nothing anyone can do to make the employees motivated to work. The current paper will explain the problems that MFCC face and how these problems may affect the company in its future business endeavors. Then, there will be an explanation of how a change in leadership style can benefit the organization more than terminating any employees. Lastly, alternative solutions will be stated to resolve the problems faced by workers and leaders on the operating floor of MFCC.
Enterprise recourse planning (ERP) is a business software that is a suite of applications intended to organize the business processes starting with planning to the point of shipping and payment. ERP operates in real time providing a shared database that supports the business process. It follows a consistent manner of tracking all aspects of the business across all functions and departments. offering so many levels for different management needs because it has the ability to customize the information as needed. This implementation paper will focus on HERSHEY FOODS CORPORATION by investigating and highlighting the reasons behind the catastrophe that Hershey foods corporation faced when implemented the ERP.
Specialty Food and Beverage company (SF), which founded in 2004 in Denmark, mainly covers foods and beverage, restaurants and hotel area. Recent years, the company had faced several problems which lead SF to an embarrassing situation. This assignment will introduce SF’s current issues, analyze the decision and then discuss the solution way which chose by SF’s high level management team.