Kudler Fine Foods: Integrative Network Design Project

Target Corporation enhance its information warehouses with latest big data that is technologically sophisticated to crunch large data using complex algorithms and provide vital output data for a daily operation as well as strengthen its capabilities over its rival which is a competitive advantage and speed up worker productivity. A quality tracking tool provided by information system tracks each package, parts ensuring the goods meet the quality standard.

Kudler Fine Foods is a specialty store founded in San Diego. Though nested in the neopolitan area they have additional store locations in Del Mar, La Jolla and Encinitas. Kudler has some of the best imported and domestic food, wine, and spirits. Their selection is comprised of fresh produce, bakery and pastries, condiments and packaged foods, fresh food and meat, and specialty dairy products and cheeses. Kudler’s mission is basically to provide the customers with the finest foods, wine, spirits and the best shopping experience all while buyimg the finest epicurean delights. Throughout this paper the importance of marketing research in the development of Kudler Fine Foods marketing strategy and tactics will be

Kudler Fine Foods offers delicacy food s to its customers. Kudler treats its foods with love and care. These delicacies give customers excellent meat, bread, seafood, and wine. Kudler’s mission, vision, values, and goals are extraordinary. This paper is a review of Kudler’s reason for existence, organizational structure, steps in collaboration, positive action plan, and collaborative roles of the key stakeholders. Kudler uses these steps to have a successful organization. The organization is successful because customers can get quality foods here.

The definition of marketing as stated by the American Marketing Association is that: “Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.” (marketingpower.com, 2008) Marketing is not a choice but yet an essential part of any business. Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. The company has three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas). Each store has a large amount of retail space located in a stylish shopping center. The stores are stocked with the

Kudler Fine is evaluating their current network and creating a logical design document that will show what needs to be done to upgrade or install a new network system to meet the goals set out to achieve. The list of goals presented by Kudler management is as follows:

Kudler Fine Foods product offering includes various high end, organic, and fresh gourmet food. They have a wide range of specialty meats and cheeses along with 4 different kinds of aged, wine vinegar and of course wine and spirits. (Kudler Fine Foods, 2013) Kudler Fine Foods travels all over the world in hopes of bringing their customers an extensive and balanced collection of domestic and imported wines and spirits. Their wines vary from red or white, sweet or dry and come from the best grapes picked in perfect conditions. The wines they carry fit most budgets and pair well with meat or dessert. Their dessert wines, for instance, Prosecco, go great with a well known Italian desert, Tiramisu.

As companies grow a build customers bases and increase services to meet these demands there is a need to enhance information technologies to continually “Strategic management involves major decisions, business choices and actions that chart the course of the entire enterprise” (Gomez-Mejia et al., p 156). The undertaking of strategic planning is usually the responsibility of executive staff of a company and in this case consists mainly of owner Kathy Kudler. She, in fact hired an intern to help her to create Kudler Fine Food strategic plan. Kudler Fine Foods focus is to

Kudler Fines Foods founded in 1998 and is growing rapidly. When they open their first store, Microsoft Access was selected as the database to track inventory, orders, and customers. The products, they sold are perishable and inventory must be properly tracked. Kudler excessive inventory is always a concern. This paper will evaluate database tables from accounting perspective, provide recommendation for improvement and create pivot table to help Kudler's management to improve decision making process.

The review of the current network used at Kudler Fine Foods was determine to be a bus topology as the network topology that is being used. The bus network is set-up in such a way that all the network components are connected via CAT5 to the bus or communication line. This configuration is true at sites in the corporation for their workstations, servers, and stand-alone UPS. A 56k modem is the device that is used by all of the networks communicating to the internet.

When Kudler opened its first store back in 1998, Microsoft Access was chosen as the database platform used to track inventory, orders and customers. While this initially proved to be an adequate solution, it has since outgrown its usefulness. Now with three stores and a fourth due to open soon, a new database management system must be put into place.

Although Kathy and the management team have a vast amount of data that is generated from standard operations, they must learn to use the information that is available to sound make business decisions. In conclusion this brief has evaluated the design elements of data tables and recommended improvements to the existing data tables. In addition a pivot table was created using inventory data for Kudler Fine Foods. Lastly this brief explained how information in the pivot table can help to improve decision making for Kathy and management at Kudler.

Mr. Gregory James Aziz is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of National Steel Car, located in Hamilton, Ontario. The company is second to none, when it comes to engineering and producing railroad freight cars.

The Organization chart I chose to analyze is from Maple Leaf Foods. Maple Leaf Consumer Foods is the leading producer of the top and lean quality, bringing value-added fresh and prepared meat and meals product to the customer. Creating a customer value through employee is one Maple Leaf Foods objectives, brands and food safety capabilities, production and distribution network nationwide. Maple Leaf Foods is a customer driven company, generating product innovation and growth in the food business market. Employing more than 12000 employees across twenty-five processing plants, two major distribution centers, and sales organizations in Canada, the United States and Asia.

The aim of this assignment is to identify the most appropriate system to solve M.J.G.’s problems. M.J.G sales are a (small to medium enterprise) who has been in operation for 3 years and is suffering from problems with their system. The goal of the company is to expand their market share, both financially and geographically. Company main business is selling and providing mannequins to retailers in the region. The system at present only allows access to the files from within the headquarters in Shrewsbury where its two regional offices are in Glasgow and Manchester. At present company consists of the CEO, with four departmental managers, (finance manager, sales manager, supplies and marketing manager and personnel). As they looking to expand their market share funding received by director for upgrading and replacing existing information system once problems relate to the existing information system this will reduce company sales revenue, delays and losing customers trust.

Wal-Mart has employed over 2.2 million associates across the globe and about 1.3 million in the USA (Wal-Mart company website, 2014) Maintaining communication in such a huge work force is a daunting task. Wal-Mart communication network reaches all its employees from the cashier to the CEO. The company’s progressive innovation in their technology has been the key to their global success. Wal-Mart’s technological investments have kept the company’s products at low prices and available and accessible to its customers. Wal mart has outsourced their technical communication so that they can concentrate more on the business itself. They have also outsourced their database, which is the world’s largest commercial database at 7.5 terabyte, to NCR Corporation. They also use software that helps the management to more effectively communicate with other departments for instance the accounts and human resources departments. Neo Vista Company who tailored the software for the requirements of the NCR database environment provided for this software. This type of access to data is known as data mining where any employee of Wal-Mart could access the database and get key information about any item sold or is available for sale at any time the information is required. This has proved