By understanding a few things about the Kudler Fine Foods’ it will help determine the best method of expansion. CEO of Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler welcomes company growth. Kathy Kudler’s original vision was to create a one stop gourmet food store. Kudler Fine Foods’ is a gourmet grocery store both respected and well-known for providing specialty foods for its clients’. Presently, Kudler Fine Foods’ has three 8,000 square feet stores in the California metropolitan area.
Lastly, Target has a grocery department located in the store and is located all across the nation in many markets. These stores all thrive on increasing productivity, quality, innovation, and customer service. Starting with Ralphs and Albertsons, there are many different roles in the operation system with a grocery store. They have people throughout that are responsible for the upkeep and organization of the store. These people are responsible for ordering all products needed within their designated area and stocking all products to keep their portion of the
A grocery store manager is responsible for setting store policy, developing merchandising plans, and hiring and training of employees. The manager is also responsible for maintaining good customer and community relations as well as handling customer complaints. With all of this in mind, a store manager is also responsible for the store’s profits and losses. This is where the four functions of management must be put into place. Now let’s take a look at what each function is and how it is used in the grocery store setting in order for the organization to run as efficiently as possible and accomplish the goals of the company.
The different between whole food market and regular super markets are completely different. My group and I went on a journey to compare the prices of Whole Food and ShopRite market to feed a family of 4 for a Sunday of 3 meals breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 snacks. The reason of this experiences is to gather information to see which market have better prices and quantity to feed this family. In my group we have 4 African American girls 1 Nigerian and 1 Hispanic so we decide that each culture pick a meal to learn what each other eat and buy from the market. We learned that the Hispanic girl cooks every day and for a family of 8 so when she go to the market she buy a lot of meats and vegetables that last for a week.
Kudler Fine Foods Information Systems Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. There are three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas). Kudler Fine Foods has traveled the world to bring their customers an extensive collection of domestic and imported wines and spirits. (Apollo Group, 2010). Kudler Fine Foods needs to come up with a plan to fuse all of their business operations at all locations.
An Assessment of Computer Information System Brief Kudler’s Fine Foods Pam Phillips University of Phoenix David Smith November 3, 2008 An Assessment of Computer Information System Brief Kudler’s Fine Foods Kudler’s Fine Foods management is interested in effectively integrating technology in their business operations. They have asked that the accounting firm to investigate this matter and present them with a brief that would give them the details of how they would need to integrate these changes into their business needs and help improve their accounting operations. In looking into Kudler’s key business and accounting needs it has been noticed that they are in need of many things. The main things that are needed would be
RUNNING HEADER: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management University of Phoenix MBA 502 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Kudler Business Processes 4 Figure1. Management Responsibilities of Operational Processes 4 Supply Chain 7 Quality Control and Performance Standards 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego, Metropolitan area, founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Its mission is to provide customers with the finest selection of foodstuffs, wines and related needs in an unparalleled environment (University of Phoenix, 2008). In keeping with its mission, Kudler has decided to start contracting with growers of organic produce.
Job Descriptions and Qualifications Operation Manager: Responsible for providing effective direction and supervision for all store associates, purchasing manager, area managers and supervisors. Major responsibilities include: maximize store sales and profit; meeting goals for sales, new accounts, payroll and expenses; development of staff ensure performance of store operations, customer service and satisfaction; maintain company standards throughout the store; protect company assets. Operation Manager Qualifications: Must have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration and 5+ years of experience in managing. Purchasing
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.
This will lead into a discussion of the lack of raw material on the market and I will explain and discuss the business forecasting for Kraft Foods. Kraft is a much diversified company as it is the manufacturer of several different types of food products to include the following: confectionary, cheese, biscuits, convenient meals and various packaged foods; selling to consumers in over 170 countries. Kraft Foods trades in three segments: Kraft Foods North America, Kraft Foods Europe and Kraft Foods Developing Markets (Forbes). 2010, Kraft Foods had operations in more than 75 countries and made its products at 223 manufacturing and processing facilities worldwide. At December 31, 2010, its portfolio included 11 brands Oreo, Nabisco and LU biscuits; Milka and Cadbury chocolates; Trident gum; Jacobs and Maxwell House coffees; Philadelphia cream cheeses; Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings, and Oscar Mayer meats.