Kudler Fine Foods is a grocery food establishment that serves an upscale customer base. Kudler Fine Foods will start to focus in of how to expand upon their services and stream line the organizational process by improving the efficiency of the entire operations. The success will be measured by Kudler Fine Foods ability to integration a new system which will incorporate a database system. Kudler Fine Foods marketing should be able to easily see the most popular products purchased by customers depending on income levels, area of residence, gender, shopping location along with any other categories that marketing wants to add. The system should also automatically convert the purchases to points and add the point's totals to the customer information data base. "Analysis Phase is to understand and document the business needs and the processing requirements of the new system" (Satzinger, Jackson, Burd & Johnson 2004, p. 6) The first step will be to address the need and scalability that Kathy Kudler is looking for in the company. There is a growing need it increase and standardize their network structure in the way of wired and wireless network. The network infrastructure has become a global on demand in all business. Technological advances require a responsive network infrastructure that is designed to control costs and reduce risks to a business, while enabling new business opportunities. The first Kudler's operations will have to be centrally linked tighter one server that can be accessed at all location. This will elevate the database which is presently used and has to be updated continuously at each store. The new system will accomplish the need to the entire operations. The heads of each location will be called upon for a meeting, the CEO, Kathy Kudler will have be aware of the global changes that will take place and effect the organization. Establishing a central database management system will keep track information from each facility and there location. Being able to access this information from any location can support the supply chain management system that Kudler is also looking for. The information in a database that can be linked to all three stores, this way the information of gathering these resources can be deploy and optimize the network infrastructure with proper management. With a system that can be integrated between these facilities can be all run virtually regardless of the complex organization's size, achieving business viability and maintain a competitive edge will be a paramount concern at Kindler's.
Lowe’s is a home improvement warehouse that was founded in 1946 as a single store and since has grown to become the second largest in the world. As technology has evolved, Lowe’s has made many advances incorporating new systems and devices to stay competitive. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the information technology management systems used at Lowe’s. It will look at Porter’s Five Force Model, supply chain management; data base management system, five agent-based technologies, e-commerce and system development lifecycle. Furthermore, it will look at business continuity planning, emerging trends and security vulnerabilities relates to the organization to remain competitive.
Kudler Fine Foods is a store unlike any in the grocery industry. Kudler Fine Foods represents a store that could possibly spark a new era within the grocery world. The owner of Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler, has watched her dream of owning and operating a grocery store that specializes in fine quality food grow within a short period of time. The success of Kudler Fine Foods can be attributed to the innovative ideas, effective leadership, and organizational structure. The overall mission of Kudler Fine Food's "is to provide our customers the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparallel consumer environment. Our selections coupled with our experienced, helpful and knowledgeable staff, merge to offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing" (Apollo Group, 2003). Kudler has managed to maintain its mission statement by providing its customers with the best and as a result the company has flourished. "Kathy considers one of her key responsibilities to be that of identification of new gourmet items that can be offered in her stores (Apollo Group, 2003)." Therefore, Kathy is considering plans to contract with local growers of organic produce to yet obtain the best in quality products for her consumers and take her business to the next step. If Kathy makes the decision to contract with local growers then changes could be introduced into the company's overall structural organization. Each aspect of Kudler Fine Food's organizational structure from basic business process to the supply chain and quality control process will be affected by the formation of a contractual relationship with local organic growers.
This is a story of an immigrated family, narrator’s father and mother who immigrate to Canada from Malaysia. In this family father prepares foods for everybody every day. One day, son’s rebellious behavior broke the silence of life, and father used violence to teach him a lesson, all this happened were in daughter’s eyes. The story is written by Madeleine Thien, “Canadian-born daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, whose collection Simple Recipes was named a notable book by the 2001 Kiriyama Paci fic Rim Book Prize” (Brown, 2006). The theme of cultural conflicts are shown through the setting of rinsing rice in kitchen, the character of brother’s rejection in life and the metaphor
"Kudler Fine Foods has experienced significant growth and is now focused on expanding the services, improving the efficiency of its operations and increasing the consumer purchase cycle as a means to increasing the loyalty and profitability of its consumers" (, ). This paper will justify the importance of marketing research in the development of Kudler Fine Foods marketing strategy and tactics. It will also identify the areas where additional market research is needed and analyze the importance of competitive intelligence and analysis in regards to the development of Kudler Fine Foods marketing strategy and tactics.
The Canadian Food Guide1 is an important health promotion tool, as long as it is adapted to the sociocultural context in which it is used. This is crucial for the First Nations, which are struggling with health problems related to nutrition and whose traditional eating habits must be taken into account2. Drawing deeply into their values and culture, Atikamekw health services have developed their own Food Guide (AFG) in 1998. For ten years, it was the main tool used by health workers to teach basic principles of healthy eating.
According to the task assigned to me, I have visited one of my favorite food court (i.e) TACO BELL. As a matter of fact each and every organization has a unique data requirements in this regard, this particular food court has its own requirement for data. The requirement may be seen at different levels. The first level of TACO Bell is Hiring manager. The hiring manager requires the data of the employee who work at Taco bell. On the next level will be a manager who looks after the inventory. Inventory management requires a database which works efficiently. So, at this level the use of the database is must. At the next level the data requirement of the cashier is different from others. The next level of data requirement is for the drive-away customers.
Happy Hat, a U.S. national chain of frozen yogurt stores with about 500 stores in 40 states is asking for assistance with its business processes. The average number of visitors per store has held constant over the past several years, but revenues per store are down by an average of 10%, and many stores are no longer profitable. The client suspects that a large amount of inventory is being thrown away unused at the end of each day. At the same time, customer polling suggests that the yogurt flavor customers want is often not available, even when the flavor is posted on the menu. People also complain about stores being closed when they visit. Now, the chain is facing increased competition from frozen yogurt sold in 24-hour grocery stores. Happy
SchmidtCo, was a family owned, Philadelphia based firm in the business of import and distribution of Automobile replacement parts. It had Annual turn-over of $40Million. It distributed 10,000 SKU of different items having 20 million pieces of shipment in a year. The company had 90 employees distributed in three warehouses. The volume and complexity of its operation made its information system backbone of the operation. SchmidtCo had decided to replace its 18 year old information system infrastructure with state-of-art one. But its project to convert the information system of his auto parts distribution business is in real
The new systems reflect the company’s transition to an Omni channel retail approach, also this software helped sears to take their asset base and make it available to clients who are not in Sears Holdings and basically play a role of the 3PL to them. This supply chain management software will minimized delays, all activities can be seamlessly coordinated and exe...
During the final two years of my college career I worked as a paid intern at Zaxby’s Franchising corporate headquarters where I was tasked with ensuring the polling accuracy of their point-of-sale reporting system. The complexity and degree of detail in which point-of-sale systems were able to gather data from such a wide variety of sources amazed me – from the number of chicken fingers sold to time spent ordering at the drive-thru and employee hours. The data was used on all levels, from making instantaneous decisions at the store level such as preparing food that hadn’t been ordered yet from prediction’s based on historical sales and current length of drive thru wait to deciding future promotions and calculating franchise fees at the corporate level. It was here that I first truly learned what can be achieved by accurately collecting all available data and presenting it effectively to decision makers.
To implement the data warehousing, let us consider Pak'nSave, a New Zealand food warehouse chain. The architectural design for this business affects the development cost, transactional performance, maintenance costs, and long-term flexibility of the application.
Taking into account the services “Gage Bandix” is rendering, I will endorse they deploy the Strategic Information system approach. Wikipedia defines Strategic information systems as “information systems that are developed in response to corporate business initiative”. I select this scheme because installing it will give an economical advantage to “Gage Bandix”, convey products without any form of deficiency, condense services that are affordable and is distinguished, accentuated on a specific market segment. Four features the system needs to have to ascertain its use are as follows:
Looking at the current trend towards globalization, some firms are managing increasingly complex networks of subsidiaries, customers and also suppliers. It manages the complexity by providing chain information and also facilitating communication between these chain partners and manager’s decisions when coordinating these networks.
...he products in the store, but also talk about the events in some situations. I only focus on the products side how market basket analysis is implemented in retail store databases. On the other hand, data mining is also the broad area. It is the process to extract useful information, which are correlations and patterns, from the huge dataset. The result of that could answer business questions, which are usually, time consuming to resolve. I only talk about the algorithm, which is related to the market basket analysis especially Apriori algorithm. In addition, there are tools, which are analytical tools for data mining. This research would talk only about the Weka software as a tool to analyze sale data from retail store. I discuss how to use Weka with sale data to find useful information for business, also how to interpret the result from Weka for business purpose.
All choices made by Seven-Eleven are structured to lower its transportation and receiving costs. For example, its area-dominance strategy of opening at least 50 to 60 stores in an area helps with marketing but also lowers the cost of replenishment. All manufacturing facilities are centralized to get the maximum benefit of capacity aggregation and also lower the inbound transportation cost from the manufacturer to the distribution center (DC). Seven-Eleven also requires all suppliers to deliver to the DC where products are sorted by temperature. This reduces the outbound transportation cost because of aggregation of deliveries across multiple suppliers. It also lowers the receiving cost. The information infrastructure is set up to allow store managers to place orders based on analysis of consumption data. The information infrastructure also facilitates the sorting of an order at the DC and receiving of the order at the store. The key point to emphasize here is that most decisions by Seven-Eleven are structured to aggregate transportation and receiving to make both cheaper.