a) Explain how the Hoosier Burger project was identified and selected. Discuss the focus that the new system should have.
The Hoosier Burger Project was identified by the owners; Bob and Thelma. After a thorough examination of the Burger shop, they concluded that increasing demand is causing huge issues to the staff, inventory, and sales. Moreover, the owners have been insisting on board meetings, the importance of refining the inventory control, customer ordering, and management reporting systems. The staff also notes that during rush periods, customers can sometimes wait up to fifteen minutes to place an order and wait an extra twenty-five minutes to receive the order. The management noted that more often, smaller stock items are not recorded
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Improving the inventory system will help reduce the chances of stock outs, and offer appropriate management means of tracking inventory levels and make enough and timely stock orders. The point of sale system solely responsible for tracking bills will also play a vital role in signaling when the inventory dips. In return, a great inventory and point of sale system will enhance the performance of customer ordering system as the problem of stock-outs causing delays in orders will have been alienated. Overall, customer satisfaction will be at all-time highs; inventory levels will be maintained and most importantly, no unnecessary losses will be experienced, and managing the business will be …show more content…
The Hoosier Burger project seeks to replace the old information system with a new and updated system. A new system will ensure customers place and receive orders promptly, get satisfied with the service and consume high-quality fresh products. The shop’s sales growth has gone beyond the marketing department’s ability to manage the sales hence a robust system is needed to cope up with the rising sales. The Hoosier Burger project will help the marketing department carry out feasible forecasts and track consumer buying patterns to provide better analysis and improve the services. Constructing a new system will harmonize and streamline the flow of information from inventory to sales and aid management in understanding market trends and make informed decisions(Hoffer, George, & Valacich,
The basic premise of this southern restaurant, devoted to “pancake’s crispier cousin,” was simple southern cooking and keeping overhead low (Hoovers, 2005). The restaurant chain embodies the spirit and culture of the1950s from the simple cash only payment policies down to the jukebox full of old time favorites found within every restaurant. The chain has altered its decorum and menu offerings minimally since it first opened in 1955. Waffle House has gained its fame for being open twenty-four hours a day and three hundred sixty- five days a year, regardless of bad weather or national holidays.
In the retail stores, managers are complaining of frequent stock outs even though the DC is full of merchandise, which is not moving enough through the supplier, DC, and retail stores. The inventory issue also ties in with transportation problems where accurate lead and delivery times are non-existent. The inventory turnover is not at its full potential because if the DC has merchandise yet the stores are stocked out, the inventory is frozen and will become obsolete.
Often people buy a book at a bookstore after reading the first few pages to make sure that the book is interesting enough to continue reading at home. That is why Amazon has a “Click to LOOK INSIDE!” button on each book. It is the most important part of a whole book in order to catch potential readers. One would expect that both In-N-Out Burger and Fast Food Nation must have strong hooks at the beginning since they were both New York Times bestsellers. Although they both focus on the fast food industry, there is quite a contrast in the way they are written. In the prologue of In-N-Out Burger, the author Stacy Perman writes not about the hamburgers or the company, but mainly about the phenomena that the burgers caused. On the other hand, in the introduction of Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schlosser splits it into two different parts, a story about Cheyenne Mountain Base and a quick overview of fast food industry. Throughout the prologue of In-N-Out Burger, Perman successfully gets the attention of the readers by describing the facts in detail, which makes them want to turn the pages for further reading. On the contrary, despite Schlosser’s concise and precise narrative, the introduction of Fast Food Nation does not seem to make the readers want to read more due to his unsuccessful analogy and composition of the chapter. The introduction of In-N-Out Burger definitely draws more attention of the readers than that of Fast Food Nation due to the rhetoric and composition.
Analysis & Recommendation: Zara’s main strategy is the ability to respond very quickly to the demands of target customers which called for identifying trends of the customer in advance. The company has been able to identify the trends and meet the demand with the help of its autonomously organized structure and its effective value chain systems. The present system followed by Zara has been very effective and very easy to maintain, which as a result has persuaded the company to continue without any change in the present system so far. The problem that Zara faces right now is that the system that they use, P-O-S (Point of Sale terminals), runs on DOS which Microsoft does not support anymore and any hardware change in the POS terminal will not be compatible with the current POS software. Although the sense of urgency for the change may not be that high, investing in IT infrastructure is a must as MS Dos is an obsolete technology and there is no contract or guarantee from their POS terminal vendor that they will continue supplying the same terminal with out much changes in the hardware for any specific period of time, therefore change is unavoidable. The other main issue that Zara faces is that the stores don’t share inventory information electronically and hence inventory management becomes highly difficult and manual. The decision making process is based on the judgment of employees throughout the company instead of relying on a small set of decision makers; the majority of the decisions were made by store managers and as a result they placed orders for the items rather than simply accepting and displaying what headquarters decided to send them.
Improve decision making on customers and sales orders based on the information provided by the new system.
Burger King adds value through the good quality products served. What the customers perceives is what the customer gets and sometimes more than what the custome...
In the competitive environment, it is necessary for moving products involves reception of products at an intermediate location, store, repackage, clear customs and transport to final destination. The other factor in the supply chain logistics is speed given information flows fast in the internet era. The customer expects everything quick accustomed to the instant status access to the information. With the real time inventory, customer expects the location of the product, it is next scheduled movement and the final delivery schedule.
In daily routine burger king serve over 11 million customers in their worldwide restaurant. This is because of some factors which
This particular case is about the implementation of the popular fast-food chain, Burger King, into the Japanese market. Despite its’ strong market position in other countries, Burger King has some difficulties to face within the Japanese market. In this report, my team and I will analyze Burger King’s current situation and problems and suggest alternatives.
From a food and beverage manager's perspective - What are the important characteristics and procedures of a food and beverage establishment in relation to its size, type, market, design, planning and organization?
Burger King is an American fast food chain that was founded in nineteen fifty-three as instaBurger King. It was originally founded by Keith J. Kramer and Matthew Burns. After running into some financial problems along the way InstaBurger was no more. In nineteen Fifty-Four David Edgerton and James McLamore purchased the company and renamed it “Burger King”. Over the next couple of years ownerships were changed a couple of times to make sure the company was running at its absolute best. Its headquarters are currently located at 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami-Dade county, Florida, United States. The nineteen seventies were considered the best time for Burger Kings advertising, using short commercials displaying their food that just looked to eat
In addition, at the time, the economy was doing great, therefore, using the push system to stock pile inventory was acceptable. However, during the dot-com bust of the 2000’s, its sales and the demand for its products greatly decreased. Unfortunately, during this time, Cisco discovered that it possessed an abundance of inventory, and, wrote off more than $1 billion in inventory. Consequently, the company learned that acquiring inventory in anticipation of market demand, and not factoring in the human element of its business increased its risks of failure. Obviously, Cisco wanted to meet its customer’s demands, however, the problem was that it held more inventory than what the customers were demanding. Nevertheless, afterwards, it knew that it needed to adopt a new, more efficient approach to inventory. Therefore, Cisco had to reevaluate its supply chain system and seek input from IT, customers, suppliers, and finance. Further, by including input from these sources, Cisco adopted the more efficient pull system. The pull system, is dependent upon producing smaller repeating orders. Rather than the push system, which relies on larger less repeating orders. Effective inventory management, when administered correctly, can reduce and keep the inventory to a more desired level. In addition, Cisco discovered that inventory management can reduce inventory levels, enhance cash flow and reduce overall
Now days , the customers so awareness of the fast food industries and its ingredients like no effected, no allergy, fresh, pure and others food which will be available on time in related area. Such sort of features are provided by burger fuel and the government policy of china is also welcoming to the foreign investor. It means the government policy is favorable for the foreign investor and franchisor. For instance, the competitors like burger kings, KFC are there in china. Therefore the burger fuel also enter into the Chinese market thorough the franchise and local partnership. Franchising is a rapidly increasing model for business expansion in the retail sectors like fast food industry and it is going to be making their own market in growing service sector of the Chinese economy in the years to come. The growth of modern retail trade has been the driving force behind it. The old age population are very low in china but the active population is very high at the age group 25-54 years is 47.2% (male 327,130,324/ female 313,029,536). Therefore, the target age group is18-35 years, employed and those people are eager to eat at outside. The burger fuel is also totally focus to
The burger’s beginnings are shrouded in mystery, we may never know for certain whose idea it was to put a juicy ground beef patty on a bun or between two slices of bread and call it a hamburger. Ground beef itself is said to have originated in Asia, where Tartar Horsemen “ground” their meat by keeping it under their saddles, shredding and softening it as they rode. The idea of pounded meat eventually made its way to Hamburg, Germany (soon called Hamburg steak), and then to the United States (Heneberry, Mike, and Cathy Cavender. The Little Black Book of Burgers. New York: Peter Pauper Press, 2005. Print). The birth of burgers is the results of the wide imaginations of the people towards foods and business, and later evolved from a simple structure to more complex where more ingredients are added just to satisfy our individual tastes in foods.
According to National Chicken Council it is reported that during Super Bowl weekends Americans are expected to chow down on close to 1.25 billion chicken wings. Of this amount, a majority of the wings will be consumed either in or from a restaurant. In Hays, Kansas there is not a predominant wing venue, however, there is one name that frequently comes up: Buffalo Wild Wings. A very popular choice among the college crowd, this establishment has cemented its name with some of the top sports bars in the business since 1982. This analysis will discuss whether or not bringing Buffalo Wild Wings to Hays, Kansas would be a successful economic venture by looking at potential profitability, future clientele base, competing businesses, and employment opportunities.