Frito Lay Quality Controlled Potato Chips

While it is our main goal to be fast, accurate, and friendly we also want to make sure that the quality is there with our products as this will build repeat business for our restaurant.

Problem Statement: Should Frito-Lay’s, the sales leader in the shelf-stable dip category, take an aggressive approach promoting its “chip dips”, or pursue the vegetable dip category?

To develop the innovative and high-quality products required by their customers, Patagonia succeeded in a third strategic area, specifically quality control. Despite being a huge cost for Patagonia, quality control was necessary to enable them to deliver on the two aforementioned strategic goals. To obtain a high level of quality, Patagonia developed long term relationships with reliable vendors for production of goods and procurement of materials, which resulted in a drastically lower defect rate than competitors

Much of the company’s success has been attributed to its superior customer service, along with low process and a broad selection of products.

Given the highly competitive nature of today’s markets we as a company must provide high quality products to survive. Quality itself has become a major competitive factor and in many ways is a contributing factor in success or failure. The intent of this memo is to identify, explain and evaluate the three types of cost associated with quality.

5 & Gourmet, 2012, para. 1). This statement provides insight into the fact that Sysco cares about their customers and the products they receive. As a matter of fact Sysco goes above and beyond normal guidelines for quality. They tell us (Quality Assurance, 2012, para. 2): We go to great lengths to ensure that our suppliers and our state-of-theart distribution warehouses maintain the highest standards, often above and beyond

Continuing with a food retailer, Greggs or a restaurant will want to get fresher ingredients than other retailers so that they can make sure they produce all of their products to be as fresh as can be. This can be done for example by Gregg’s own in-store bakeries having their ingredients delivered in the morning and then they bake them the same morning to make sure they are as fresh as possible. When they order the ingredients from the producers they will have to check that the supplier is storing the produce correctly before purchasing, otherwise they may purchase products that could be unsuitable for them to use and if they did use them, could create problems for them in the future. A good example of this could be

If Frito-Lay properly utilizes their promotional products, they will create several accomplishments (West, 1999). First, it will grab the consumers and retailers attention. Second, since everyone enjoys gifts, the promotional product will encourage goodwill. Third, the promotional product provides a friendly reminder of Frito-Lay’s salty snacks. Finally, it can motivate an action from the retailer and the consumer to purchase a variety of Frito-Lay’s salty snacks to enjoy anytime (West,

Frito-Lay Company - Cracker Jack 1. Why has Borden Foods decided to sell Cracker Jack?

Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo Inc, has just purchased the Cracker Jack brand from Borden Inc. The company is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing of snacks, with products such as Ruffles Potato Chips, Fritos Corn Chips and Doritos found among its product mix. These well known company brands have seen it capture over 50 percent of the retail sales, and company officials envisage Cracker Jack can only but add to the richness of its product line and profits. Borden, because of its strategic decision to concentrate resources elsewhere, discontinued aggressive

Pars Food Ltd has a vision to grow. Built around the philosophy of “Pars Food, It’s all good”, they strive to stand out within the UK, as well as build a customer base throughout Europe. They provide frozen foods for restaurants involved in fine dining, catering companies and also supermarkets whom avail of their convenience foods such as pizza and ready meals. They are heavily involved in activities such as sourcing, manufacturing, transport and lots more. These processes have to be monitored though quality and supply chain management in order for

Frito-Lay is a national brand and a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing of snack chips. Frito-Lay accounts for 13 percent of sales in the US snack food industry. Frito-Lay’s

7-Eleven also wanted to provide its own design for the package and the package won’t have a photo of Ben and Jerry on it. All this is against what Ben and Jerry’s is known for.

Frito-Lay uses Product focused process strategy for its food manufacturing operations in terms of process.

For the past decade, new competitors have not been able to put a noticeable dent in CoolBurst’s market share in schools and restaurants due to their efficient production and operations systems. CoolBurst proprietary knowledge in its operations along with a high-tech system, which improves the efficiency and effectiveness of ordering and delivery of its products from any remote location and location of its testing labs, enables CoolBurst to run