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Introduction
Kudler Fine Foods is presented in the virtual organization portal of the University of Phoenix MBA 502 rEsource page (2008). Kudler fine foods is a specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. It is a one-stop food shop with the finest selection of very best foods and wines at reasonable prices. The shop offers wide range of products such as fresh bakery items, fresh produce, meat, seafood, condiments and packaged foods and specialty dairy products. Within five years Kudler Fine Foods company had expanded to three branches (University of Phoenix, 2008). Recently, Kudler plans to start contracting with local growers of organic produce. This paper identifies the business processes at Kudler that could be affected by this decision and it also describes how the supply chain would be affected.Then,it explains the different quality control tools and performance standards that kudler need to implement to ensure the effectiveness of its operations.
Business processes at Kudler
A process is any part of an organization that takes inputs and converts them into outputs that, it is anticipated, are of superior value to the organization than the original inputs (Chase, Jacobs, Aquilano, 2005). Understanding how processes work is essential to the competitiveness of a company (Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano, 2005).
The different processes that would be affected are Purchasing, Inventory and delivery planning. At present at Kudler, there is no purchasing department. The department managers of each store determines the product requirements for his or her department and places the purchase ord ...