Pizza Usa Essay

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Pizza USA: Translating Customer Requirements Into Process Design Requirements Emporee Jon Webster University Operations and Projects, BUSN 6110, Spring-1 2013 Instructor: Ashley L. Hall March 08, 2013 Abstract This case, Pizza USA, is about bridging the gap between the customers’ perception and management’s perspective in order to implement a successful pizza delivery service. A central theme of contemporary operations management is to identify and focus on what the customer wants (Jacobs & Chase, 2011, pp. 235-237). Pizza restaurants, and the fast food industry in general, are facing the same nature of challenges in a highly competitive and low growth economic environment. A viable delivery service offers the opportunity to do something really unique and create a differential advantage. Pizza USA has the opportunity to take some extra steps ahead and lead the market by bringing in some innovative ideas and systems in their business so that the gap between what the company can deliver and customers’ expectations is narrowed down to the absolute minimum. The primary method employed to reduce the gap and address prevailing issues is one the most effective and widely used business tools—SWOT analysis. Multidimensional strategies such as sales strategy, delivery system strategy, supply chain strategy and operation management strategies are of prime importance for a goods and service company like Pizza USA. On the basis of the analysis conducted, a delivery process is designed that can consistently meet expectations in a cost effective manner. Introduction The purpose of this paper is an attempt at translating what customers want in a pizza delivery service and designing a set of processes that will consistently deliver this service in a cost-effective manner. In this case study we shall endeavor to embrace the point of view of the two
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