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Operations, Technology, and Management Plan 7

Technology

The key aspects for Uptown Swirl are the facility, production process, equipment, labor force, and utilization of the resources. These aspects are essential for the company’s operation as they aid in efficient operation of the company. 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. Labor force would include 50 people 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 a 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 automated machinery. This will help in dispensing this mixture in inserting a calculated quantity in the specified bottles, which would be then labeled (Abrams, R. 2014).

The cost and time efficiencies in any organization is a vital aspect because 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, more labor force, and a 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 need to kept at a certain time.

All the organizations utilize their strategies to ensure that they get better utilization of their resources regarding the suppliers, distributors, and the 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 in a feasible way and concentrate more on concentrating to be on the upper hand (Stanek, 2014).

Uptown Swirl’s industry has different companies with different market share offering rivalry at different levels. This requires that the operational exercises made to oversee the jobs in an efficient way. The issues that are likely to be identified with operational assignments and exercises would be explores faster. Some of the key issues be 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 in managing difficulties at the different business level. The rule of the organization would be to confront the issues and confront them in an efficient manner to get solutions and creating a spot (Slcher, 2015).

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. More research would be done pertaining the product to make sure that all possible harms to the users are minimized as this in the event would help in maximizing the number of sales. For the individuals who do not consume sugar, the research development can be more useful in designing a sugar free beverage just special for this group.

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 version and at the same time and 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). Through website development, some of the orders would be processed with much ease as innovation would be the kicker which would be needed in drawing the new generations, packaging, and graphics. This will help in enabling usage of the innovative creations.

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 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 safety of the information, Mac computers are more appropriate. Hardware on hand includes 2 computers systems that would help in keeping track of the records in the organization. Some of the other upgrades would also be utilized to make sure that everything is organized and keep things to run smoothly.

Communication is 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 a better communication, Wi-Fi would be appropriate, using Bluetooth and the mobile communication that would help in sharing of the information (Felipe et al. 2016).

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 give coordinated effort equipment’s that would keep the organization open and being equipped with a sharper access to the information. The company aims at utilizing computer programming book keeping as a means of tracking the department specific data which would be viewable to different clients upon approval. The company would have to be appealing to the incoming generations, attract them and male deals, acquire asset data, make computer generated requests, and oversee inventories of the different capacities.

Management and Organization

Key management for the company is the president, marketing specialists, controller, and operations 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 and technical director. Some of the advisors include different management and are coordinated by the president. This includes the 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 times as he would give more suggestions and orientations to the company (Gharibzahedi and Jafari, 2017). The president would be involved in the day-to-day operations of all the aspects of the organization. He would be responsible for directing the administrative and the financial aspects of the organization as the vice president would help in guiding and giving support over specified responsibilities. The vice president will get an opportunity to decide on the specified areas in the organization (Felipe et al. 2016).

Social Responsibility

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).

Uptown Swirl will offer top of the line benefits to their employees. This includes full healthcare coverage, childcare, assistant living, flexibility in hours, and a chance to further education. The company will also partner with other companies in order to get discounts for travels, hotels, electronics, and more.

Since the company would also use water as one of their resources, this may have an effect on the environment. Several approaches would be implemented to avoid these effects such as incorporating 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).

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

References

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