Kudler’s Fine Foods Finance and Accounting Systems Business Systems BSA/310 Kudler’s Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods is a spirits, fine wines, and upscale specialty food store offering customer both domestic and imported products. Kudler Fine Foods mission is to use their experienced, helpful, and knowledgeable staff to “shop the world” for the finest products, giving customers the choice of aspiring to purchase the finest epicurean delights. Kudler Fine Foods uses management, operational, and supporting processes to achieve this goal. This paper will focus on Kudler Find Foods finance and accounting business information system, which is part of the supporting processes. Supporting Processes
The matrix structure combines the functional and product departmental strategy approach. It implements the functional departmentalization strategy for administration purposes, and the product departmentalization strategy for its individual grocery stores. The functional strategy allows the company to separate the workers and the work in departments of their specific areas of expertise. This lowers the cost of operation by reducing the possibility of work duplication and also pairs workers of similar training, experience, and communication. The product departmentalization strategy of the grocery stores works to streamline the operation of each gourmet specialty department.
Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: KUDLER FINE FOODS Problem Solution: Kudler Fine Foods University of Phoenix MGT/521 Management Problem Solution: Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods is a premier gourmet grocery store for shoppers searching to buy the finest meats, produce, cheeses and wine. Kathy and the company’s management need to take a step back to analyze the stores’ strengths and weaknesses to ensure success in any future expansion plans. Situation Analysis Issue and Opportunity Identification Kudler Fine Foods has several issues they should address in their stores before implementing any expansion plans as outlined in Table 1. One issue is 12% of perishable goods being thrown away or donated to charity
Other aspects of product are economic- customer value, functional- service at the point of sales, before sales and after the sales and the psychological aspect of the product like image of the product. Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet ingredients shop and offers in-store parties and now going in to catering business. It is managed by Kathy Kudler. So customers know that it is going to be gourmet food experience because she notices some of the people at the catering places are regular customers at her stores. KFF should research the market to find the needs of the customers.
Differentiating Between Market Structures: Kudler Fine Foods Priscilla B. Ford ECO/365 March 12, 2013 William Thompson Differentiating Between Market Structures: Kudler Fine Foods Kathy Kudler pursued her vision of a specialty gourmet grocery store and established Kudler Fine Foods in 1998. She opened her first store in La Jolla, California, hoping to create the “premiere grocery store for those savvy shoppers who are searching for the finest meats, produce, cheeses, and wine” (University of Phoenix, 2013, para. 1). There are five departments within Kudler Fine Foods. The Bakery Department consists of a modern European-Style Bakery, where employees produce fresh breads and pastries every morning.
First, she carried the bags of shrimp to the freezer. She wondered who had left the freezer without making sure the door was completely shut. Alyce then loaded a case of sour cream on the dolly and wheeled it over to the reach-in cooler. When she opened the cooler, she noticed that it was tightly packed. However, she was able to squeeze the case into a spot on the top shelf.
This marketing initiative will track the customer’s buying habits and allow Kudler to target to specific customers. Looking at the current information technologies databases, Kudler foods has a system that tracks internal sales data but wants to enhance the system so they can track the demographic information and buying trends of each customer (Kudler Virtual Organization, 2010). Strategies and Tactics The company, Kudler Fine Foods, must insure that all marketing initiatives align with the company’s mission statement. When selling gourmet foods, it is more important to have the highest quality foods and customer service than it is to have low prices. Kudler must stay focused on this aspect at all times when developing new tactic and strategies as not to succumb to the pressures of the discount shopper.
B. Brand name of the FD&C color(s) from the grocery store food = Market Pantry C. The FD&C color(s) making up the grocery store food colorings = Red #40, Blue #1, Yellow #5, Yellow #6. D. The FD&C color(s) making up the Kool-Aid drinks. = Red #40 and Blue #1. E. The FD&C color(s) making up the M&M’s®.
Current Ethical Issue Paper Patricia Henson XMGT/216 Version 2 February 26, 2012 Jeffrey Harris Current Ethical Issue Paper The organization that I am going to be using to create my ethical organization profile is Kudler Fine Foods. It is a retail store that is owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. The company offers a wide selection of gourmet quality foodstuffs. They sell fresh baked goods, fresh produce, fresh meats and seafood, condiments and packaged foods, along with wine, cheeses, and specialty dairy products. The mission at KFF is to provide consumers with the finest selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs, in an unparalleled shopping experience.
A grocery consultant that will enter your list into a computer and organize it by the rows, give nutritional value and sales. All of these enhancements that these companies implemented have been done by their managers/owners first “creating a vision of perfection centered on the customer”. This detailed vision encompasses every detail of the experience that you want the customer to have. It is the model that you can strive for, that will show you the changes needed in your organization, but this model is not static and must be adjusted as we combine it with the other concepts. For illistrating the concept of “Discover what the customer wants”, Charle introduces the area manager to one more company.