Chapter 4: Internal analysis - Structure 4.1 Analysis of the value chain: Primary activities: Inbound logistics: * Focus upon the relationship with supplier‚ how they manage to secure deliverance of high quality coffee beans. Communication and contracts with green coffee suppliers Operations: * How Starbucks operations are conducted?‚ Starbucks own stores‚ expand on how many and how the procedure is (licensing etc) Outbound Logistics: * How do they sell their coffee
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The determinants of service quality: satisfiers and dissatisfiers Robert Johnston University of Warwick‚ Coventry‚ UK Introduction There appear to be five major debates taking place in the service quality area. One debate concerns the similarities and differences between the constructs of service quality and satisfaction (see e.g. Anderson and Sullivan‚ 1993; Bolton and Drew‚ 1991; Cronin and Taylor‚ 1992‚ 1994; Oliver‚ 1993; Parasuraman et al.‚ 1988; Taylor‚ 1993; Zeithaml et al.‚ 1993). There
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Case 7-3 Quality Metal Service Center 1. Is the capital investment proposal described in Exhibit 3 and attractive one for Quality Metal Service Center? The project evaluation seems to be beneficial to the company: A. Payback period: 4.5 years less than the company’s criterion of 10 years B. Internal rate of return: 21.8% c. Net present value (at 15% cost of capital): $286‚000 The proposal seems to be an attractive one due to the fact that there seems to be a need in the district for this
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Service Industries Critical Analysis Service Companies Chosen for Analysis: Apple and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Apple and HP are both multinational corporations that are widely known for producing consumer electronics and software. Both companies are considered to be one of the largest companies in their market‚ and would be considered to be competitors of each other. With the products and services that they offer being similar‚ they would be ideal companies for a critical analysis against each
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Management Pizza USA is a chain of pizza restaurants that currently offers sit-down and take-out service. Many customers have said that they would buy more pizzas from Pizza USA if it offered a delivery service. This exercise is in two parts. In Part I‚ you play the customer. In Part II‚ you play the manager at Pizza USA who is responsible for developing the pizza delivery process design requirements. PART I To start with‚ you have to think like a customer. This should be easy since you probably
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INTRODUCTION Context of the Study The food industry becomes large and diverse increasingly. For the aim of consumer options‚ food services can be different as elegant ambience‚ fine dining‚ casual dining‚ fast-casual dining restaurant. The focus of this study is on the operations management of a food service provider which is the fast-causal dining restaurant. The researchers have chosen Queen “J”‚ being the vendor of concession canteen of Shell Shared Services in which one of the researchers is employed
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THE IMPACT OF TEAM WORK ON CUSTOMER SERVICE QUALITY A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTRE‚ UGANDA DRONYI SILVER WANI 08/U/6906/PLE/PE A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS OF KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY APRIL 2012 CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This chapter includes the background of the study‚ statement of the problem‚ purpose
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SERVICE INDUSTRY-PRICING ISSUES J.R KUMAR Faculty Director‚ FAPCCI. The basic aim of the Service Industry is to provide services to the clients/customers who need those services. These services include the services for the manufacturing units‚ as well as the services to other direct or indirect service providers who offer services to others involved
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USING QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT IN SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION Abstract. We present in this paper an approach to requirements specification based on quality function deployment (QFD). We discuss how techniques like QFD with accompanying tool-support can contribute to the development of high quality requirements models that are the basis for information systems that are perceived as valuable by the stakeholders of the systems. Based on the practical application of this technique on a
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the difference can be quite large. Under variable costing‚ only those costs of production that vary with output is treated as product cost. This would generally include direct material‚ direct labor and the variable portion of manufacturing overhead. The fixed manufacturing overhead is treated as a cost of the period and charged for the period. The variable costing is sometimes referred to as direct costing‚ marginal costing‚ differential costing‚ incremental costing and comparative costing. The
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