Uptown Swirl Business Plan

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Operations Plan

The key aspects for the company are the facility, production process, equipment, labor force, and utilization of the resources. These aspects are essential for the company operates as they aid the inefficient operation of Uptown Swirl. The company would have three productions in one facility in the initial year as part of the investment that would produce about 5000 bottles monthly. The labor force would include 50 men who would consist of three facilities and 7 would be in the management section. The production process would aim at attaining quality and inspection process would aim at attaining higher standards. The process would use pure water in eliminating impurities as controlled amount of sugar would be mixed with the other ingredients, which would be put in an automated machinery, which would help in dispensing this mixture in inserting a calculated quantity in the specified bottles, which would be then labeled (Abrams, R. (2014).

Cost and Time Efficiencies

The cost and time efficiencies in any organization is a vital aspect for instance, as the company would more likely be affected by this in the long term objective of the company in the event they would be increasing their scale of production. This may entail moving from a smaller production to a larger scale system. This would require more equipment's, more labor force, and better utilization of the resources. Incorporating both time and cost is an essential aspect, operational development would be effective, viable, and beneficial. Time aspect indicates proper utilization that an item utilizes as this estimates the stock that needs to kept at a certain time.

Competitive Advantages

All the organizations utilize their strategies to ensure that they get better utilization of their resources regarding the suppliers, distributors, and consumers. The company need to set strategies that would help keep up their game. This may require that the company do a routine check-in a continuous process. This would help to assess both the negative and the positive aspects that would achieve a better need that would help act feasibly and concentrate more on concentrating to be on the upper hand (Stanek, 2014).

The NAB industry has different companies with a different market share offering rivalry at different levels. This requires that the operational exercises made to oversee the jobs efficiently.

Problems Addressed and Overcome

The issues that are likely to be identified with operational assignments and exercises would explore faster. Some of the key issues are given a proper allocation of time and distinguished so as they can be solved. Approach the business practices in a better way to achieve an efficient way of managing difficulties at a different business level. The rule of the organization would be to confront the issues and efficiently confront them to get solutions and creating a spot (Slcher, 2015).

Research and Development

Research and development would help in the market and concerning the product in general. This will help attain a better product taste that is preferred by most of the consumers. The research would also help in getting the desired market target and helps in knowing how to break even in the market.

Technology Plan

Software needs

The innovation in the company has to offer help to the organization to achieve better business practices in a planned manner to get a better pledge and exercises that would be legitimately working. The company would utilize QuickBooks as it offers both desktop and nine versions and at the same time, it is affordable. This would help in achieving better demographic information such as sex and postcode as this would help in sorting mails (Engineers, 2018).

Hardware Needs

Hardware and the quality can be important aspects in an organization as in such a case, choosing wrongly would incur the organization greater losses. This means there is a need to utilize the six hardware classifications (output, input, storage gadgets, focal handling unit, information transfers and joining gadgets) which are imperative and cannot be included. To achieve the safety of the information, Mac computers are more appropriate.

Telecommunication Needs

Communication being an important aspect in any organization that may want to succeed, this means that more security and attention has to be given to the communication setup. To enhance better communication, Wi-Fi would be appropriate, using Bluetooth and mobile communication that would help in sharing of the information (Felipe et al. 2016).

Personnel Needs (for technology)

The company would outsource the system for both the software and the hardware, as this would be cheaper. Using apple equipment and programming in dealing with the database needs to give coordinated effort equipment’s that would keep the organization open and is equipped with sharper access to the information.

Management & Organization

Key Management and Employees

Key management of the company ate the president, marketing specialists, controller, and operation manager. The president having most of the authority would incorporate the other managerial heads in making some of the decisions regarding the organization. The other key managements include the sales representative, technical director.

Advisors

Some of the advisors include different management, which who coordinated by the president. This includes marketing manager who advises for the operations and the human resources, operational manager. The president would also look for a third party member online company that may act as an advisory for the board at all time as he would give more suggestions and orientations to the company (Gharibzahedi and Jafari, 2017).

Management Structure and Style

The president would be involved in the day-to-day operations of all the aspects of the organization. Would be responsible for directing the administrative and the financial aspects of the organization as the vice president would help in guiding and give support over specified responsibilities. The vice president will get an opportunity to decide on the specified areas in the organization (Felipe et al. 2016).

Management Hierarchy

Ethics and Social Responsibility Plan

Corporate Citizenship

Corporate responsibility determines the perfect form of an organization. Corporate citizenship involves how the organizations take into consideration the effect of the environment and the society not only considering the environment. The company would give back to society, as it would be creating employment to society. For instance, most of the raw materials would be sourced from the society as in the end. This would also create job opportunities from the supplier point as the returns would be reinvested in the society. The organization would adhere to the laws and regulation (Felipe et al. 2016).

Environment Protection

Since the company would also use water as one of their resources, this may have an effect on the environment as this would be determined in the manner in which these products would be packaged, disposal of the bottles, and the usage of the scarce resources. Several approaches would be implemented to avoid these effects; the company would incorporate environmentally friendly products in packaging. The firm will also try to invent a process that can convert waste products into energy and improve the efficiencies in terms of fuel and water in using developed technologies (Gharibzahedi and Jafari, 2017).

Health Issues

The company products have positive health benefits as the ingredients used as not harmful to health. The product would are aimed and targeted to the health-conscious individual. There are little effects associated with the product except for the fact the some of the products that have sugar may limit consumption for some of the consumers (McWilliams, 2015).

References

Abrams, R. (2014). Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies. Planning Shop: Palo Alto.

Engineers, N. B. (2018). The Complete Technology Book on Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Beverages(Fruit Juices, Whisky, Beer, Rum and Wine). Asia Pacific Business Press Inc.

Slcher, J. (2015). Special Issue: U.S. Beverage Business Results for 2014. Beverage-Digest,

66(7), 1-6. Retrieved from http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2015.pdf

Felipe, C. M., Roldán, J. L., & Leal-Rodríguez, A. L. (2016). An explanatory and predictive model for organizational agility. Journal of Business Research, 69(10), 4624-4631.

Gharibzahedi, S. M. T., & Jafari, S. M. (2017). The importance of minerals in human nutrition: Bioavailability, food fortification, processing effects and nanoencapsulation. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 62, 119-132.

McWilliams, A. (2015). Corporate social responsibility. Wiley encyclopedia of management, 1-4.

Stanek, B. (2014). Why your bottled water contains four different ingredients? Retrieved From: https://time.com/3029191/bottled-water-ingredients

President

Board of directors

Advisory committee

Consultant

Vice-president