The Operation, Technology, and Management Plan

The Operation, Technology, and Management Plan

The Nonalcoholic Beverage Company, which is a startup company, to identify and outline all the issues needed in a startup and present to funders to help raise money for financing the company growth need to carry out the OperationOperation, technology, and management plan before investing into a large production. The company, which is growing and trending in its low and nonalcoholic production, wishes to move from small scale production to large scale production. Therefore to facilitate the smooth transaction, the company needs to carry out the three crucial planning strategies.

Operation plan

In this section, all the requirements needed to facilitate the dynamic and drastic transformative measures are highlighted. Meanwhile, the stock requirements, suppliers’ and the manufacturing process description of the company get highlighted.

The critical aspect of OperationOperation.

To facilitate the transformation to a large scale, Merinda requires to expand the facility, her uncle left and also acquired more and new equipment’s to replace the inherited owns. The company owns two mixer beverage filling machines, $28500 each used for rinsing and capping, Monobloc machine imported from Italy used for filing, which is now replacing the old mixer machine. The company owns four vehicles, which cost them $10,000 each used for transporting their product and also collecting the raw materials in the market to the company—three computers each at $1200 and a graphic software $750. However, the equipment cannot facilitate the transformation, and the company has to lease some equipment’s such as the labelling machinery for $450 per month, which facilitates the branding of the bottles and also the printers at $550 per month.

Also, the company must utilize the services of a consultant, and hire a production line supervisor, look into the maintenance of their workforce to avoid spilling of the skills, and also use the projection line managers. The company inventory arises from the hiring of equipment, professional services marketing of the product, and other services such as insurance. However, to reduce some of the monthly expenses, the company needs to buy types of equipment rather than hiring them. And also, find other companies to facilitate the costs met in the facilities such as the provision of utilities and consultation services, which would become paid for when needed instead of permanently employing someone.

Cost and time efficiencies

The company needs to acquire more equipment and employ more employees for professional services. Some of the cost is relatively low since Merinda enjoys an inheritance of $40000 and also cash from friends who do not require payment with interest. However, the company needs to produce and make sales to pay the money within one year to avoid attracting a 5% interest rate on the invested cash. At the same time, it also utilizes high-level machinery, which produces more bottles in an hour as compared to the human workforce. The company does not need a lot of human labour since a large scale requires high mechanization levels.

Competitive advantage.

Merinda enjoys a significant advantage of utilizing a low priced product from the reduction in the need to pay more. The investment and also the inheritance and also the fact that the loans she gets do not require interest and voluntary services makes the production cost less expensive compared to other companies. She also knows the area since she intends to launch the business with 100 miles within her neighbourhood and also has most of the mechanization put in place with no facilities expenses. Also, her introduction of a nonalcoholic product comes at a time consumers are shifting their consumption due to health concerns. Therefore she uses the advantage of the availability of social media among the youths in the region. Availability of comprehensive customers.

The problem addressed and overcame

Merinda solves the issue of the company in raising capital to facilitate large scale production through financing and outsourcing of the money from ready friends and also investors and the inheritance her uncle left. She also utilizes the advantage of being popular among her friends who identify her passion and her ability to provide and meet their needs. The comprehensive offering of services with the initial startup promotes her NAB Company through operating under low costs.

The company, however, wishes to reach the level of other competitive companies such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola and not only to produce with 100 miles of the region but become international in their OperationOperation. This would become facilitated by the acquisition of advanced types of equipment and utilization of the market technology in production. The measures put, such as monitoring and test of every production level, would ensure quality production meeting the requirements of the industry through producing a healthy and satisfying the thirst of consumers’ by creating a nonalcoholic beverage. The test is to check the sugar levels in the drinks and also to ensure hygiene in the production process.

Technology Plan

This section helps the company in identifying its position and evaluate the future position goal of the company. It takes into account the time and resources in understanding the appropriate needs and technology for staff and organization.

Software needs

The company needs the three computers Apple Macintosh brand at $10000 each for carrying out the operations of monitoring the machines’ work and setting the requirements of the company in checking the inventories and distribution while tracking orders. Also, it needs to acquire services to maintain the software’s used in advertising, such as social media and emails used in communicating and providing customers’ facilities. Also, maintenance of the graphic software acquired at $750. These enable the company to utilize the technology through programming the machines to the specification of production requirements by faster production and minimizing chances of error that occur during the human production process.

Hardware needs.

The machinery used in the company requires constant monitoring to avoid break down of a production system and also labour to facilitate the delivery of products to the market. The company needs the hardware for taking orders and also producing beverages through hiring personnel to monitor and carry out a daily check on the machines before they operate. The two $28500 mixing machines and the capper bottling and vehicles require human labour for operating. However, there is a need for maintaining the machinery through social force to check their average conditions and maintenance to avoid the risk of breakdown, which can result in catastrophic results.

Telecommunication needs

Melinda needs to hire people to manage the communication of customers and providing customer services at a permanent level. At the same time, it also maintains the taking of orders and fulfilling the goals and mission of the company through hiring professionals in analyzing the business. Melinda needs to carry out its marketing strategy through advertising using various telecommunication platforms, which must she must engage their services for the advertising period. Also, the phone services in the company require payments every month for facilitating daily activities and information sharing in the company. These originate from the need to communicate in the office through giving airtime tokens to the managers and also facilitating communications from office to office and maintaining the advertising platforms for consumer’s needs and opinions about the product.

Personnel needs.

The company for the first six months would not incur the cost for the CEO, though, after the period, she needs to hire a fulltime CEO. She also incurs the expenses for a computer expert on part-time working for 20 hrs in a week with a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Also, the company incurs the costs of outsourcing the services of professional consultants every month and fulltime services of production line foreman, projection line workforce, and the maintenance workforce expenses.

Management and organization plan

The management plan in an organization depicts the hierarchy levels of the company. Each of these levels has varying responsibilities. They take the form of steps in which the relationships of the communication strategies of the organization get drafted.

Merinda, who is the chief executive officer, controls other departments in the company. From here, she has different production line foremen. These individuals ensure the continuity of the workforce and are involved in the process of production. Moreover, they facilitate the achievement of the goals and objectives of the company. The company utilizes the services of the various head of departments who act in the capacity of the chief executive officer. For instance, the marketing manager takes care and handles the services and the workforce working in the marketing, advertising, and package development sections, to ensure the product reaches the set standards before getting into the market. More so, the company’s sales manager oversees the sales of the company, handles clients and communication of the company.

The Controller department accommodates the professionals in consultation with the accounting requirements and regulations to purchasing strategies of the organization. The department is the central organization of the company since, without accounting and purchasing, the business may fail. Also, operations managers handle the product research and development for future growth and operations of the business by identifying the opportunities and threats in the market and the company while also overseeing the shipping process of product distribution. A company cannot grow and work well without the employment of a manager in the human resource who takes care of all the personnel needs in the company and even personnel training.

The company utilizes downward communication where information comes from the chief executive officer to the different managers and the representatives in the workforce before reaching the workforce. Also, the employee’s grievances are addressed to the human resource manager first before they can get to the chief executive officer. The departments, are in constant communications, to ensure fluent relaying of information. These ensure smooth operations and running if the company.

Ethics and social responsibility plan.

This part analysis the execution of the company’s services and its operations. Moreover, probable ways of carrying the operations of the company are identified. It also analyses the best environment to be operating in, one that constitutes to helping society.

The nonalcoholic company is committed to operating as a good corporate company by meeting all the requirements set in the industry. The company ensures that it meets the quality requirements by producing in the most hygienic products, which does not present health problems to the customers. This is because the company appreciates and acknowledges the importance of consumers in its progressive growth. Therefore in all its undertaking, the company considers consumers preferences in terms of offering a low priced product and a healthy one that meets their satisfaction and health needs.

The company wants to be involved in the changing of the community. It sets to do this by offering various job opportunities. This will be possible since the company has adopted a transformative strategy of large scale production. The company shall be offering employment in an open recruitment process, where the qualifications of each applicant are considered, and only recruitments are based on merit.

The company ensures compliance with the laws and regulations of every country they are operating from. Moreover, they ensure that they have the required certifications from the relevant bodies. Similarly, the company provides the best working environment in the workplace. They do so by promoting health conditions where each employee gets treated equally. And no harassment or bullying of any sex in the company by ensuring that sexual harassment does not occur through various strict policies and regulations in the company.

The company also considers the environment and takes keen on the comprehensive and global warming issue and seeks to work towards promoting the reduction of climate change through handling its waste, which is harmful to the environment through recycling and treatment before disposing of them. However, the disposal process meets all the regulations of the land in which the company operates. Lastly, the company seeks to become a socially driven company through executing various charitable programs such as sponsoring community students for further studies and promoting multiple social initiatives which are aimed at benefiting the locals of the area and change their living conditions.