Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
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Issue Identification
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Environmental and Root Cause Analysis
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Alternatives and Options
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Recommendation and Implementation
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Monitor and control
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Executive Summary
It is a fact that the company didn’t achieved the best results in last years, reason way a radically revamp of our operations is required. In order to implement the new strategy regarding the franchise for easy internet cafe we qualified 4 offers from UPS, Excel Globalserve and Ingram for 3rd party logistics. My analysis took in consideration the following factors: total cost per store, ownership of goods, experience and expertise in supply
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Further more suposedly CVM and CVM spares include CVM PC and CVM UPS as well (equipment that eIc will endeavor to keep in stock due to the long lead time).
For items 6 to 19 the longest lead time is 28 days and they should be delivered after activity B and C. So, that means the franchisee has minimum 56 days (8 weeks) to order and received the items, and as a consequence all the orders for the equipment that can be bought by franchisee have the lead time covered. Even, let’s say, they are waiting till last day of the activity B is finalized, still there are 28 days for activity C, good enough to have on time all equipment. To deal with uncertainty in lead time, eIc will have a special clause in the contract with franchisee to ensure receiving of all equipment within at least 5 days prior to activity E starts.
Because each franchisee it supposed to be a local company or at least to have an office in that specific area, they should have knowledge about what kind of internet connection can be provided by the local suppliers.
Current Logistics Situation
Using current in-house method eIc spends approximately
Senior Management of PepsiCo is evaluating the potential acquisition of two companies – Carts of Colorado and California Pizza Kitchen – in order to expand the company’s restaurant business. If indeed PepsiCo decides to pursue the acquisition of one or both, they must decide how to align each of these business units in its historically decentralized management approach and how to forge relationships between the acquired business units and existing business units. In their evaluation, Senior Management is faced with the question of whether the necessary capital investment in order to purchase one or both of the businesses can be profitable for each of the acquired business units, but must
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of JB Hi Fi (JB)’s strategic management and operations. The current global uncertainty over recent months have provided a challenge for the retail sector and this report will address strategies JB implemented which allows them to continue growing. Section 2, strategic analysis focuses on the external and internal environments, using the PESTEL and Porters 5 forces
After carefully analyzing your Coffee Shoppe, I have found several aspects that are considered strengths and weaknesses. Tim’s Coffee Shoppe has already established its presence in the busy downtown area of Sunnydale, Illinois. Your shop is located by a large college and Horvath and Arbanes Station, which are major bus stations. The shops’ location is great because of the steady traffic flow throughout the day and it is accessible from several parts of town. The shop is lacking a few technological updates as well as organization. From my analysis, I concluded that only accepting payments in the form of cash is making you lose some of your
4.1.3 How can an E-Business strategy help The Broadway Café attract customers and increase sales?
Café D Pownd is a campus cafeteria, which serves 450 students and faculty, on the campus at the National Academy of Liberal Arts. The Café’s busiest time is at dinner time, where two thirds of the residents are expected to be served between 5:00 and 6:30 pm. The café serves meals, beverages, salads, desserts sandwiches and other snacks. Most students pay with their student meal cards. The Café is designed with three waiting lines, L1, L2 and L3. Line one is for the pre-cooked meals, and it provides a menu of its items. L2 is for the interactive cooking station and the students get to pick what they want to be cooked at that time. L3 is designated for the payment of meals. They have numerous complaints
Making the decision to leave the atmosphere of the café as is and focusing on up grading business operations from relaying on memory and notepads to run the business. Now, I must develop a strategy for a full turn around for the business to become successful. In doing so, I can use Porter’s Three Generic Strategies (Baltzan & Phillips, CIS 500 Business Driven Information Systems, 2009). The strategies consist of broad cost leadership, broad differentiation, and focused strategy.
Now, there are five competitive forces which shape every business and industry. These competitive forces are the threat of power of suppliers, new entrants, competitive rivalry, power of buyers, and availability of substitute which all will help the café sustain a competitive advantage (Baltzan, & Phillips, 2009). The power of the supplier is low for the café due to the fact that there are many suppliers that the café can buy from. So, if the café is not satisfied with one supplier we can always switch to another supplier with no problems or issues as long they meet the café’s standards and expectations.
Nevertheless, the majority of customers are very satisfied with the amount of serving along with the quality of their meal as well as the price paid. The strategy of being a low priced high value added has seen problems due to lack of customers which is affecting the bottom line drastically. This inevitable circumstance has put a hold on operations and started an investigation upon various neighboring competitors and their own strategies.
In this strategic management assignment, we will see how organization achieve and sustain competitive advantage. As the global leader of the international express and logistics industry, we will study how DHL has gained and achieved in sustaining its position in the logistics sector. To do so, the report will be cut in two parts. Firstly, an introduction will present, explain the subject and then expose
Following considerable investment in new warehouse and carrier management systems the number and quality of delivery options had increased. Now delivery options include: same day, next day or standard delivery options that normally takes around 2-3 days. Also customers can set delivery date by themselves and if wanted can be notified via email or text alerts of delivery status. In addition 85% if orders are tractable
(20,000 (target market) x 30%) X 2 = 12,000 visits eating and drinking. Of these 12,000 visits, 40% would use the internet service, so 12,000x40% = 4,800 computer users.
First, Mia Foster should ask Chen to take her to look at all 23 restaurants in China and find out what is going on. The most important thing is to find out how different they are from ones in the United States. Then, she should talk to Louis Chen and take back some of the
This paper addresses the use of Porter’s Five Forces model and how it can benefit Broadway Cafe by identifying and analyzing the effect of these forces on its business. The benefits include improved decision making, faster time to market, better productivity, improved competitive advantage, more profits and greater customer satisfaction. It also helps in achieving operational excellence.
Pepsi Co’s Restaurants is a Harvard Business School Case which states PepsiCo’s large organization, its structure, its acquisitions and management approach. It also covers two companies, Carts of Colorado (COC) and California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) which are pursued from PepsiCo in 1991 to buy. In this position paper PepsiCo’s acquiring strategy and management approach will be evaluated to examine strengths and weaknesses of acquiring these two companies and possible solutions of other strategies. It will be also qualified whether it is a successful company in restaurant business.
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.