4. Operation Plan The following section describes the specific operational procedures of business, such as design, production, sales and other services. It also includes information on suppliers, the company's core team introduction and standard staff requirements. As well as the contents of a record-keeping program and a brief flowchart. 4.1 Operating Processes The fashion industry comprises of two things, firstly retail and secondly services. The company does not need any introduction with production equipment. The company will provide a finished product for retail through its own website and provide a large volume of orders service, as well as contract face to face to discuss customer’s needs, pricing etc. As a retail website, the …show more content…
artworks will come from students and will be in the original design. The company will select the designs via appropriate technical experience of the staff and the value design, that will have the potential for them to be mass produced. And insure that the technology exists to be able to product those designs and sales online with limited production targets of the products. Customers will make selections and payments online for the products that they want and than receive a beautifully packaged product. Resources connecting services will be provided through the company's existing Chinese manufacturers as a contact network, the services will be face to face for the British local private or corporate orders.
The Company will also provide samples as cost valuation and technical analysis, and then sign a contract when the two sides to reach a consensus agreement. Products will be manufactured in China and send to the UK until the completion of the single project after delivery of the goods to the customer. The product will be stored in the warehouse for a period of time, it will also be disposed promptly if it doesn’t achieve the desired sales. 4.2 Suppliers Most of suppliers will come from China and the following will list a few major …show more content…
ones. The mussel-Pearl All natural pearls will be produced by HUAXIER Limited. This is a company which located in China, Zhejiang as pearl suppliers. More than 95% mussel-pearl are from China in the world, while more than 80% of Chinese pearls from Zhuji of Zhejiang Province (Huang and Sun, 2015). The supplier location is close to Shanghai and Yiwu, which is convenient transportation for export and create the conditions for processing. Jewelry making The production of various types of jewellery will undertake from the Feixiang Ltd.
The manufacturer located in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, which is the most important commodity export cities and factory assembly area in China. The jewellery manufacturers can customise all kinds of professional metal jewellery, such as rings, necklaces and bracelets. Materials, which will be used in the production process, are environmentally friendly material. Their scale is the top 5 of manufacturers in Zhejiang. Stickers Stickers will be supplied by JINZHOUTIEZHI, whose factory is located in Zhejiang Province. This company is specialising in the production of stickers and printed products. Ink and paper products will use environmentally friendly materials, through the European standard test (RoHS) and without any harm on the skin. Packaging The packaging will undertake by YIYUAN Beijing agent. The supplier is located in Xicheng District, Beijing. They can make gift bags, brand invitations, business cards and other paper products. Chinese bone china 1973 is a professional bone china manufacturer, which is located in Tangshan High-tech Industrial Part. The supplier will undertake the company's various porcelain production tasks. Tangshan near Beijing and it is the origin of the China bone china. Its porcelain contains a large number of cattle bone meal, so that the finished product as thin as paper, transparency is
higher. RoHs: Restriction of Hazardous Substances (Gov.uk, 2014) 4.3 Management Team The company's ultimate decision-makers will be the founder’s, who will be responsible for sensible allocation of responsibilities to work through the personal wealth of knowledge and resources, such as decision-making, stock keeping and financial control in the early days. They will also will lead the company in any challenges that they face and be in charge of moving the company forward. 4.4 Key Personnel The core team will consist of three members. They are: - Founder, who will be responsible for the important decisions and ensure that the entire business model functioning. - Design director, who will plan the company’s brand style through personal capacity, and select the valuable design of artworks from the students. - Programmers who will maintain the website and related applications are always in perfect condition, because of the retail business mainly through the website. Also the company will have an accountant and a supervisor in China, who will be partners to the UK company. And the accountant will responsible for all financial clearing work with the manufacturers and tax to the customs. The main duties of the supervisor is to ensure product quality in line with company expectations standards, the ability to communicate face to face and sampling product quality with manufacturers. 4.5 Staff Recruiting the right employees is essential for the operation and development of company. The company would expect employees must meet all of the following conditions: - working with relevant industry experience and skills - Basic knowledge acquired, good social conduct - Able to reach agreement with the company's goals and values; safeguard the interests of the company. - Good character and quality of mind, such as helpful, responsible, caring, hard-working, reliable and courageous. - love art and understand the company's brand definition. - Fluent in the language and good communication skills. All employees will be recruited through campus recruitment and online advertising. Each applicant will be required to submit their resume and cover letter, including information on previous work experience. Followed by a face to face interview with the applicant, and then will be selected. When experienced all of the above steps, the selected applicant will have a trial period, they will be considered during the process. Finally the result will be decided by recruit a team from the company. 4.6 Record Keeping The valuable data and records will be kept: procurement costs, invoices, sales revenue, operating expenses, bank records, contractual agreements, annual records, payroll and benefits, employees' personal information, details and other customers. All records above will be scanned into electronic parts and paper in both forms; will keep at least 10 years.
Tesco’s objective is to be the ‘champion for customers’, and they want to achieve this by being number one in customer satisfaction. They want to grow globally and by doing this they ‘create value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty’. Tesco is
Tesco must also follow their statutory duty which ensures that their employees have adequate welfare facilities. Employees also have specific duties they got to follow by law which includes them to take reasonable care for health and safety for them and the people around them, they must also co-operate with the employer or any other person to enable the employer or other person to perform or comply with any legal requirements.
Explain how the management of human, physical and technological resources can improve the performance of a selected organization.
Since the dawn of civilization, ceramic ware has been made in the Orient using a combination of clays – kaolin, feldspar and quartz. Kaolin is a kind of clay white in colour which retains its colour even when fired in kilns with high temperatures. The art, that has been perfected through the centuries, reached the West slightly more than 200 years ago. As an honour to the ancient artisans, the ware was called the china and the tradition continues to this day. Today china is the ultimate word in the world of dinnerware. They are stylish, elegant, strong and durable. China ware in the ancient days were fired in kilns with high temperatures to make them strong. Today, china ware is subjected to extremely high temperatures to vitrify them. Vitrification is the process of firing ceramic ware to such temperatures that they can absorb less than 0.2 percent of their own weight. The process turns the surface of the ware shiny and smooth and lends extra hardness and durability to it.
Silk with Chinese characters woven into the cloth has been found in Palmyra, Syria, dating from 100-300 CE, some of the earliest Chinese art to be found in West Asia.3
After the purchasing on materials is made, then it turns to operation part which is transforming the raw material into finished food and services.
Dealers’ respective locations are shown on the Fig. 1 and Fig. 2. They are all surrounded by malls and business centers in central areas of Shanghai.
In last 20 years China became one of the more influential and fast growing countries in the world due to the economical element by some trading and import export business. This changing created better living conditions and affluence enlivenment for Chinese citizens, the result is increasing in the Chinese consumers purchasing power and capital of their bank account. which leaded many new Chinese entrants of toy companies or manufacturers established to produce brick toy similar LEGO type in China and they are targeting to export infringing brick toy and aim to occupy LEGO 's market share. China manufacturers were built up factories in Guangdong, Shantou - Chenghai and Dongguan which is named world factory
In terms of the flow of goods in the region, each group company can directly order the material, produce the goods and sell them within the regional market. They build their own physical flow of goods, being relatively independent from the parent companys physical flow of goods. However, only one third of total revenue in the southeast Asia is produced in the region due to the limited production capacity of the group companies, the remaining two-thirds are still mainly supplied from the company's main production site in Germany.
Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to reduce and distribute products and services. Related activities include managing purchases, inventory control, quality control, storages, logistics and evaluations. A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Therefore, operations management often includes substantial measurement and analysis of internal processes. Ultimately, the nature of how the operations management is carried out in an organisation depends very much on the nature of products or services in the organisation, for example, retail, manufacturing, wholesale and etcetera.
Dutch manufacturers too have a global outlook. They export goods worldwide, maintain subsidiaries in many countries and often join forces with foreign partners. The main manufacturing industries are chemicals, food processing, metalworking and the refining of gas and oil. The printing and electronic engineering industries are also world-class. Dutch
Slack, N., Johnston, R. and Brandon-Jones, A. (2011).Essentials of operations management. 1st ed. Harlow, England: Financial Times Prentice Hall.
In every organization, different operational functions exist to ensure the smooth learning of the organization. In order for an individual to have the knowhow on how to operate the functions delegated to them they must have implicit knowledge on the functionalities themselves. Understanding markets, customers and the company goals has always proven to be a core starting point for individuals who ply their trade in the organization. The essence of the skills is evident in globalization, cooperate social responsibility and risk management issues. In operations management, the basic principles of operations should be followed to ensure that the profitability of the organization ensures the operation of the organization is
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Chinese pottery is also an ancient form of art in China. It was first created in the pre-dynastic ne...