A marketing plan to help Vinamilk organisation

A marketing plan to help Vinamilk organisation Vinamilk, one of top milk manufacturers in Vietnam, is specializing in manufacturing high quality products from core dairy products include liquid and powdered milk to value added dairy products such as condensed milk, cheese, yogurt and coffee The organisational objectives are to grow its market share in Vietnam as well as overseas countries. Hence, to expand market share in Australia, one of the large export markets of Vinamilk, this organisation has to develop a good marketing strategy for a product named Dielac Sure. This product, which is developed by Center for Nutrition Research and Product Development of Vinamilk, is good for older people and intolerant persons because it contains high protein and no lactose help to increase calcium absorption, digestion, advantageous bacteria and laxative, especially it is trusted to use as medicine. It is seen that there is a big opportunity for Vinamilk Company to sell the special product in this prosperous country, Australia with a highly developed economy and a diverse population, especially high demands of increasing number of older people on products good for their health and lifestyle. In addition, Vietnam and Australia are all members of World Trade Organisation (WTO), ASEAN Australian New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), therefore, Australia government breaks down trade barriers by liberalizing international trade and investment rules to support Vietnamese traders who want to run their business in Australia. However, to limit risks as well as human and financial resources, Vinamilk would initially use exporting as the mode of entry in this target market. It appears many challenges for Vinamilk when exporting Dielac Ensure into Australia such as strong competition, different consumers needs and wants, strict regulation s and high products standardsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ ¦Conversely, Vinamilk can expand their international business once Dielac Ensure is accepted in Australia market, it can be also sold in New Zealand and other markets where have high demands about products. The purpose of this report is aim to increase the market share that Vinamilk organisation holding through introduction of Dielac Sure in the Australia market. This report, however, is prepared and based on assumption of Vinamilk, marketing strategy proposed in the report may change and it does not guarantee that it can achieve success in Australia. Structure of this report comprises of: Marketing environment Foreign market analysis Marketing strategy Marketing implementation Financials Evaluation and control procedures Through these analyses, Vinamilk will explore Australia market by this flexible marketing strategy with competitive prices and effective distribution channels, specially a product strategy. And it is expected that Vinamilks market share will be increased by 10 percent within two years when Dielac Sure is launched in Australia. This strategic marketing plan also recommends Vinamilk to apply SWOT analysis, Total Quality Management and Marketing Audit in evaluating and controlling marketing activities. These methods are very useful and efficient. Furthermore, Vinamilk should manage its employees, who play a vital role in marketing activities, in an effort to satisfy their demands and needs. If employees get high job satisfaction and a strong commitment to the organisation, employees will attempt in order to achieve the organisations goal and objectives. In addition, Vinamilk should focus on customers demands and wants first, and try to develop and maintain long term customer relationships. Finally, it is the international business, there are many risks for the organisation, it hence requires that Vinamilk should prepare careful exit strategies for the bad situation happen in the future. TABLE OF CONTENT I. INTRODUCTION Background Vietnam Dairy Product Joint Stock Company (Abbreviated Vinamilk) was founded in 1976 under the name of Southern Coffee Dairy Company with the initial capital only 100 billion VND. Going through 24 establishing and developing years, Vinamilk Corporation grows up and becomes a leading producer of dairy products in Vietnam, holding 75% of Vietnamese milk market as well as one of the top 100 strongest brands by the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade in 2006. (Vinamilk, 2010). At this time, VInamilk is manufacturing and trading many different product ranges including liquid and powdered milk, condensed milk, drinking and spoon yoghurt, ice cream, and cheese, coffeeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ ¦ Vinamilk commits that always satisfy customers with high-quality, safe, and diverse products, the best service and competitive prices. Besides strong domestic distribution with 183 distributing channels and 94,000 selling points throughout Vietnam, Vinamilk products are exported to many countries such as the Australia, United States, France, Canada, and Asia. Purpose of the report This report creates a marketing plan to help Vinamilk organisation, a Vietnamese brand to achieve a successful launch of Dielac Sure in Australian market, one of the potential markets for this product as well as for Vinamilk. However, the report has finished in a short time, there are many limitations in marketing research, customer analysis and the financial budget. The marketing strategy proposed to the organisation in this report may be changed in the future. II. FINDINGS Marketing environment 1.1 Cultural environment Today, Australian society is changing values and demographics. It results not only opportunities but also challenges to milk manufacturers, in particular to Vinamilk organisation. The increasing number of older Australian offers a big market segment for Dielac sure. Furthermore, this elderly population is trying to maintain active lifestyles as well as seeking solution to have healthy lifestyle. Australian people require products, which are good for their health and maintain quality of their sleep as well as quality of their life. It is apparently seen many Australian consumers now are looking for products friendly to the environment. There is a new tendency become Green consumer. They accept to spend more in purchasing products having eco friendly package as well as take an account of fair trade or environmental practices. (choice, 2009) The increasing of local supermarket, a huge supercenter is convenient for consumers purchase. They can buy Dielac Sure in anywhere at anytime. Besides, development of technology is playing a vital factor in supporting consumers purchase. Shopping online or buying at home through Internet or telephone is very convenient to busy consumers. Consumers are pay more trust on other peoples experiences and when decide buying purchase, they usually trend to buy brand, not buy products. 1.2 Economic Australia has a sustainable rate of economic growth with GDP per capita $38,500 in 2009 (ABS, 2009). It is slightly higher than that of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France representing the most populous countries. The economic crisis in 2008 affected the Australian economy by decreasing construction projects, housing turnover, including the serious decrease of commodity sales. The employment rate increased greatly. However, at the end of the fiscal year 2008, Australia still kept growing and gained the fastest pace 2.7% in 2009 (Economywatch, 2010). Australian is putting their confident in the economy due to continuously growing consumer price index. (ABS, 2010). The Australia Government is controlling consumer inflation on an average between two and three percent over business cycles by a responsible monetary policy. Consequently, the inflation is low at only 2.3% in March 2010 (ABS, 2010). In addition, with the sound and practical structure of financial regulations and institutions, Australia is seen as a potential investment destination for other countries. 1.3 Population Until now, population of Australia is over 22 million people with birth rate (12.47 births/1,000 population) is more than death rate 6.68 deaths/ 1000 population (ABS, 2010). Although it is the large country with the area over 7 million square kilometer, population of Australia is mainly concentrated in urban areas. This prosperous country has high GDP $997.2 billion (2009 est.) (CIA, 2010) and personal income per capita is high $19,213.50 per person  (Nation master, 2010) meanwhile inflation rate and unemployed rate is low, only 1.8% and 5.6% established 2009 (CIA, 2010). One element of Australias natural resource base is minerals. Other important natural resources involve forestry and fisheries, and together with agriculture, they contribute significantly to the Australian economy and Australias Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Since Australia purchases more goods and services from overseas than the value of goods and services it exports (ABARE, 2009a), export value of minerals hold approximately 7.7 per cent of GDP. Australia export value $160.5 billion is slightly less than import $4 million. Current account balance of Australia is -$29.89 billion (2009 est.) and ranking 182nd compared to the world. However, its exchange rate is so high 1.2894 AUD/ USD (2009). Goods enter Australia that be cleared by the Australian Customs Service and depending on the type and value of the goods or products, there may be costs involved, including clearance fees, customs duty, goods and services tax and other taxes. Especially, dairy products imported to Australia subject to Imported Food Control Act 1992. 1.4 Political and legal environment The Australian political environment is very stable. It has a lower rate of riots, terrorism and chaotic political dispute. Australia attracts new businesses by a strong, transparent corporate governmental system as well as low barriers to trade and investment. It is very easy to establish a new business in Australia. It only takes two days to complete the license. On 14 June 1990, an agreement on trade and economic co-operation between Australia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was signed. It creates opportunities for Vietnamese companies doing their businesses in Australia. (Australian Treaty Series, 2010) In spite of this, it is an important and compulsory aspect that any organization has to consider in order to operate business legally in Australia. Vinamilk is in charge of protecting intellectual property rights worldwide, ensuring to enforce state as well as federal rules and regulations. In addition to regulation by Australian Government, Vinamilk needs to follow a number of laws and regulations, including the following: Trademarks: the logo or symbol represents for the company. Vinamilk has also registered the trademark in 79 countries including Australia in 1999. Patents: an exclusive right granted by a government to manufacture or use an invention during a specific period of time. Vinamilk can register its patent for this product that is safe for users and use as medicine for feeding . Copyright: The right of protecting the authors original products against illegal usage from plagiarism. Trade secret: used to prevent leaking secret traditional method. For instance, the secret of manufacturing natural latex rubber Dielac Sure of Vinamilk Company. Foreign market analysis 2.1 Describe market 2.1.1 Australian dairy industry 2.1.1.1 Overview The Australian dairy industry is Australias largest processed food industry, and ranks in the top four of the nations rural industries. Australias climate and natural resources are favorable to dairying and allow production based on year-round pasture grazing. Australia has almost two million dairy cows, producing around 9 billion liters of milk each year. http://www.readyed.com.au/urls/dairy/dairy.html Over two-thirds of the 9.4 litres of milk produced in 2008-09 was produced in Victoria, 10 percent in new South Wales and 7 percent in Tasmania. Dairying occupies a relatively large proportion of the agricultural sector in Tasmania Just over half the milk produced in Australia during 2008-09 was consumed by the domestic market; the remainder being exported as either drinking milk or manufactured products. 4 www.dairyaustralia.com.au Milk Production Report, viewed 16 February 2010. 5 In 2007-08 the value of Tasmanias livestock products (which mainly includes wool, milk and eggs) was $413 million. Of this amount $275 million was the estimated value of farmgate milk production (approximately 67 per cent). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 1307.6 Tasmanian State and Regional Indicators, December 2009 www.abs.gov.au; and www.dairyaustralia.com.au, Dairy 2009 Situation and Outlook, June 2009, p. 82. 7 About half of the domestic consumption is as drinking milk, the remainder being used in the production of cheeses, butter, and milk powders. Dairy Australia, Dairy 2009: Situation and Outlook, June 2009, www.dairyaustralia.com.au. 2.1.1.2 Recent developments In 2008, Dairy Australia reported that the Australian dairy industry was enjoying the best world market conditions in decadesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ ¦ international dairy commodity prices rose to record levels through 2007, due to consistent strong demand and tight supplies, as well as the effects of exchange rates and cuts in export subsidies. This led to higher farm-gate milk prices for Australian dairy farmers- prices increasingly by more than 50 percent in southern region during 2007-08. Dairy Australia did note that despite the optimism, the industry still remain constrained by the high cost and limited availability of production inputs, uncertain climatic conditions and reducing herb numbers. Australian Dairy Industry in Focus 2008, p. 3. Higher farm-gate prices continued into the 2008-09 season until, following the global financial crisis, milk processors reduced the price paid to farmers sharply. Besides, Australian milk production declined year on year by 4.9 percent in the first four months of 2009-10 as a result of drought and low water allocations in the irrigation system, the low prices as well as reduced demand. Monthly milk production Source: Dairy Australia, www.dairyaustralia.com.au. 2.1.1.3 Competitors in market The manufacturing sector of the Australian dairy industry has become more concentrated since the first stages of deregulation in the late 1980s; the outcome being increased foreign ownership and a reduction market share of farmer owned cooperatives. The five major companies have increased their milk processing capacity from 50 percent to 75 percent of the market. In 1999, the five largest milk manufacturers in Australia were Murray Goulburn, Bonlac, Daisy Farmers Group (all three entities were cooperatives), National Foods Ltd and Pauls/ Parmalat. Today, Bonlac is owned by Fonterra, and the Dairy Farmers Group has been acquired by National Foods. Fonterra (20 percent), together with Murray Goulburn (the largest remaining farmer owned cooperative, supplying 37% percent of Australias milk) are the prominent market players in the manufacturing milk market 2.1.1.4 Distribution Milk sold through various channels including fast food outlets, supermarkets, independent grocers, corner stores, and service stations. However, the sale of milk through the supermarket channel has slowly been increasing; Dairy Australia noting a recent change in the behavior of two large chains- they have embarked on a marketing campaign encouraging consumers to make comparisons between their own generic branded milk with that of branded products. Dairy Australia comment that although this behavior is unlikely to affect the volume of dairy products consumed there may be an impact on the channel and value of dairy sales as consumers seek greater value in their purchases and move to generic labeled and price discounted branded products. 2.2 Market size (ok) Drinking milk sales by state (million litres) NSW VIC QLD SA WA TAS AUST 1979/80 531 437 249 127 119 41 1,504   1989/90 582 449 316 150 164 47 1,730 1999/00 597 440 383 185 190 48 1,933 2000/01 633 456 393 201 201 50 1,934 2001/02 626 460 403 185 200 50 1,924 2002/03 620 475 404 183 208 52 1,942 2003/04 627 476 418 196 212 52 1,981 2004/05 641 486 429 200 215 53 2,024 2005/06 660 499 444 192 216 50 2,061 2006/07 692 510 474 201 226 53 2,156 2007/08 682 524 499 205 237 55 2,202 2008/09(p) 696 533 510 208 241 56 2,244   Source: Milk processors and State Milk Authorities Australian milk consumption has been steadily shifting from regular to modified milk types, such as reduced and low fat milks, over a number of years. This trend reversed for a period during 2008, as consumers responded to rapidly increasing retail prices by switching to the relatively lower-prices regular full cream milks. The longer-term trend has returned during the most recent year. Drinking milk sales by  type (million litres) Regular Reduced Low  fat Flavored UHT Total 1989/90 1,257 322 111 40   1,730 1999/00 1,099 498 173 164 1,933 2000/01   1,094 415 95 165 165 1,934 2001/02 1,074 435 105 170 140 1,924 2002/03 1,055 440 120 174 153 1,942 2003/04 1,057 462 118 190 154 1,981 2004/05 1,063 492 116 199 154 2,024 2005/06 1,093 488 124 201 155 2,061 2006/07 1,107 530 125 213 181 2,156 2007/08 1,126 553 123 213 187 2,202 2008/09(p) 1,143 572 118 210 201 2,244   Source: Milk processors and State Milk Authorities http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/Our-Dairy-Industry/Industry-Statistics/~/media/Documents/Our%20Dairy%20Industry/Latest%20Statistics/NationalMilkSalesAugust2010.ashx 2.3 Government participation http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/[emailprotected]/90a12181d877a6a6ca2568b5007b861c/b006a83a9127b0f5ca256dea00053965!OpenDocument Nowadays, Australian dairy industry operate in a deregulated and open market which only government involve being in the food standards and food safety assurance systems and prices are affected by world situation. A look at the dairy industry of Australia prior to 1 July 2000 reveals an industry governed by two separate sectors, the regulated market/fresh milk sector and the non-regulated manufactured milk sector; six separate dairy industries, one in each state; and high levels of Australian Government assistance and complex state government regulatory intervention. Regulation came in two forms; state government support of the market/fresh milk sector and Australian Government support of the manufactured milk sector. In the 1980s and 1990s state governments had the responsibility of controlling price and milk quality, and for formulating policy for the market/fresh milk sector. Up until deregulation, dairy farmers selling their milk as market milk received a substantially higher farm gate price than the average price paid for manufactured milk, even though there was little distinction between the two products. Across Australia under this regulated market, a number of different schemes existed which allocated the large guaranteed price premium proportionally to all dairy farmers, encouraging farmers to produce more milk than would be produced under free-market conditions. State governments also engaged in establishing legislation that regulated interstate access to their market milk sectors. The manufactured milk sector on the other hand was characterized by open access, with products from this sector being traded freely within and between states. Although the manufactured milk sector was characterized by open access, it was not totally devoid of policies that distorted the market for dairy products. Up until July 2000, measures to support domestic prices, restrict imports, subsidize exports and restrict the production of substitutes were used. By the early- to mid-1990s it was clear a fall in the price of market milk, relative to manufactured milk, was required and price controls and supply quotas needed to be removed or substantially reduced. The Australian Government began phasing out market support in the dairy industry, in line with its commitments to wind down protection in the manufacturing industries and other areas of agriculture. The deregulation of fresh milk pricing from 1 July 2000 had a major affect on farm gate prices for fresh milk. In 2000, around 18% of Australias total milk production was consumed as fresh milk. Victorias proportion of fresh milk to total milk production was only 6% compared with much higher proportions (about 45%) in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. Under regulation, all dairy farmers received a separate price for fresh and manufactured milk. After deregulation, most Victorian manufacturers offered dairy farmers a single, blended price for all milk, which reflected the emphasis of milk being used for manufacturing dairy products and the prices received from the exports of these dairy products in the rest of the world (Edwards 2001). The dairy industry today is fully deregulated, and every dairy farmers farm gate price for milk is now, due to natural forces of supply and demand, affected by world prices no matter where they live within Australia. Summary Conclusions about the Australia market In general, Australian milk production declined year on year and continue to fall in the future because of seasonal condition- drought and low water allocations in the Murray-Darling irrigation system, this thing will affect directly and make Australian milk price increase. Besides, the deregulation of milk pricing from 1 July 2000 had a major affect on milk price as well. It is not belong to government control and is affected by world prices. It is considered as one of the advantages if Vinamilk have the plan to enter this market. Marketing plan Vinamilk position itself as the prestige brand name with high quality products and service. To Dielac Sure, Vinamilk wants to target to the older customers by offering many benefits such as support immune system, balanced nutrition, rebuild muscles and strain, and maintain healthy weight From these benefits, Vinamilk is confident to compete with many strong milk brand names which were available in Australia for many years such as: Ensure of Abbott and Anlene of Fonterra. 3.1 Objectives Achieving a unit sales volume for the first year of 2,000 items. Total sales revenues of AUD $3,000,000 in the first year. Expected market share to be 5% in the first year. Aim for an average price of $1,500 per item. Expand consumer awareness of the Vinamilk brand name by 20%. 3.2 Product Dielac Sure is produced and developed by Center for Nutrition Research and Products Development of VINAMILK. And it also received The International Certificate in Food Safety and Hygiene HACCP. Moreover, this product has special nutrition with high protein and fat that: Supply energy and strengthen body in operating and growing. Recuperate patients health. Dielac Sure is available for feed patient through catheter (under the instruction of doctor or nutritionist) Ameliorate malnutrition. Suit for pregnancy and lactation women. Dielac Sure doesnt contain lactose and cholesterol; therefore it is the best choice for the elderly and lactose-intolerant persons. Dielac sure is packaged in a can weighed 400g and 1000g and labelled in English with full ingredients and careful directions. 3.3 Consumer buying behaviour 3.4 Communication media 3.5 Competitor analysis 3.6 Promotion mix Promotion includes four parts: public relation, advertising, personal selling and sales promotion. In terms of product life cycle, Dielac Sure is in the introduction stage in Australia market. Therefore, promotion requires heavy advertisings and public relations to build brand awareness and guide customers on products benefits. Vinamilk applies personal selling strategies to ensure distribution coverage and supply chain cooperation. Furthermore, Vinamilk should consider a sales promotion strategy, it is important for the company to encourage customers to have a trial on products; also trade sales promotion expedites distribution activities for the company. Advertising On television and radio The newspaper works and The Daily advertiser Billboards Public relation Sponsorship for charity events Direct telephone and send letters to collect customer database and invite them to join in a small party on Father Day and Mother Day. They are the days for families, which include a number of elders who are 40 and above. Personal selling Send business emails to some big retailers to introduce about our new products and increase the available distribution of products. Door to door selling activities will help promote the organisational prestige to customers. Sales promotion Buy 1 can Dielac Sure 1000g get 1free glass or cup. Loyalty program for instance, if customers buy enough 10 cans of Dielac Sure 1000g, they will receive one can 400g free. Encourage more consumers by holding an event one day examine free for older people. 3.7 Physical distribution 3.8 Channel of distribution Cooperating with the big supermarkets in Australia such as: Coles Woolworths Pharmacies 3.9 Price determination Can 400g: $10.90 Can 1000g: $ 21.50 Marketing implementation ACTIVITIES MONTH 1 MONTH 2 MONTH 3 MONTH 4 MONTH 5 MONTH 6 MONTH 7 MONTH 8 MONTH 9 MONTH 10 MONTH 11 MONTH 12 PIC I. Market analysis BN 1. Marketing research QH 2. Set a budget TT 3. Training staff BT II. Product activities NT 1. Finalize in development CT 2. Production runs MK IV. Distribution activities QM 1. Shipping to warehouses HN 2. Shipping to retail store GC 3. 5% quantity discount BV V. Promotion activities GE 1. Newspaper advertising EL 2. TV and radio advertising MP 3. Billboard advertising NATo get the success in doing this marketing strategy, Vinamilk will implement the first year of this marketing plan as follows 4. In store POS display LO 5. Sponsorship BT Direct telephone EL Send business e-mail SA Door to door activities CO Buy 1 get 1 Dielac Sure protection sheet PM Loyalty program PM 10% discount full pack HD Financial statements SALES FORECAST IN THE FIRST YEAR SALES FORECAST JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEP OCT NOV DEC UNIT SALES 100 150 300 280 250 500 600 400 350 380 500 550 UNIT PRICES (AUD) 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 SALES (AUD) 150,000 225,000 450,000 420,000 375,000 750,000 900,000 600,000 525,000 570,000 750,000 825,000 DIRECT UNIT COSTS 35% (AUD) 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 525 DIRECT COST OF SALES (AUD) 51,000 77,250 156,000 145,500 129,750 261,000 313,500 208,500 182,250 198,000 261,000 287,250 FINANCIAL BUDGET IN 1 YEAR MARKETING BUDGET 1ST QUARTER 2ND QUARTER 3RD QUARTER 4TH QUARTER YEAR TOTAL ADVERTISING Newspaper 1,259 1,684 1,593 1,748 6,284 Television 10,574 11,928 12,456 13,945 48,903 Bus station 584 673 894 721 2,872 Point of

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John Lewis Partnership Business Report On Logistic And Operation Mana

Question: Critically evaluate methods of planning and organising efficient operations and networking.Analyse the problems of controlling component activities and of controlling quality.Critically discuss methods of project evaluation and of scheduling resources. Answer: Introduction The report is critically based on evaluating the logistics and operations management in John Lewis partnership. It is the most popular brand name in UK, which is dominating the retail market of UK. The report states four of the processes of the operations strategy such as formulation, implementation, monitoring and control of operations strategy. Various competitive strategies of the selected organization are analyzed using those operations strategies. Operations management contributions are detailed to improve in organizations strategies. Finally, recommendations are provided to make improvement in the four operation strategies used in the selected organization. Analysis the business operations and market position of John Lewis Partnership in the business area Background of the company John Lewis Partnership (JLP) is a UK based company, which is operating John Lewis departmental stores, banking, services of finance, Waitrose supermarkets and retail services. JLP group is the third largest UK based private company. The products of JLP are clothing, cosmetics, watches, jewelers, house wares, audio visual, furniture, direct services, computing and financial services (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015). The first John Lewis store was opened in the year 1864 in Oxford Street, London. Figure 1: John Lewis Partnership (Source: Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015) Business Situation John Lewis Partnership has 91,500 partnerships own the leading retail business in UK. The business has annual gross sales of over 11bn. After beating Marks Spencer in the year 2010, JLP has a distinction of being one of the best high street website in UK. John Lewis focuses to improve its operational strategies towards their all varieties of buyers, introduction of value range to John Lewis and expansion of business services (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2014). The JLP supplies Ocado web supermarket with the Waitrose own band foods as well as John Lewis own brand non-food items. History of John Lewis Partnership In the year 1864, John Lewis opened a drapery shop, John Lewis Department in Oxford Street, London. The son of John Lewis, John Spedan Lewis has acquired a quarter shares holding in the John Lewis departmental store. John Lewis hands control over the Peter Jones in the year 1905. However, in the year 1928, due to death of John Lewis, his son became the owner of the stores (johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015). The current position of this JLP is that it is one of the ten UK retailers with 46 John Lewis shops, over 300 Waitrose supermarkets and online businesses. Market Position of John Lewis Partnership Market Share JLP achieves a sales growth as well as market share gains in their fashion, electrical and home technology. The companys online sales growth is 17%. The following table shows JLP market share as below: Factors Values Average Volume 100.00 Dollar Shares Outstanding 612.00k Free Float 499.4k Market Cap 734.40k Annual Div 6.48% Table 1: Market Share of John Lewis Partnership (Source: johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015) Core Competencies Capabilities: The Employee Ownership policy is the core capability of John Lewis. The organization provides the employees the right to highlight their issues to the higher authority of the organization without any restriction. This aspect makes their employee more satisfied and increase the productivity of the organization. Core Competencies: Waitrose and Mark Spencer are the core competitors of John Lewis. John Lewis gain more competitive advantage for on time delivery and also for providing a huge range of products to their customers (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2014). Products: The products offered by John Lewis are skin care and all types of health care products, other essential goods needed in daily life. Graph 1: Market Share of John Lewis Partnership and Its Competitors (Source: Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2014) Application of four operations processes of operational strategies of John Lewis Partnership Operation Strategy Formulation JLP should analyze their competitive position in the retail market, formulate their strategies and acquires resources to implement the chosen operations strategies (Dekker, Bloemhof and Mallidis, 2012). In the year 1929, the founder of this selected organization gave the ownership of the company to the employees to balance the happiness of their employees. John Lewis has a determined vision of co-ownership by assembly the employees fixed to the business profit. This strategy has left a remarkable business-related history and they live today over 80 years. Most of the workers of public sector are considering utilizing the employee of John Lewis employee owned business model after the staffs of Lewis who are partners hold a big bonus of 15%, which is almost twice the monthly salary of the employees (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015). The long term strategic aims of the organization is to provide personal satisfaction to their associates by becoming a member of co-owned venture, loyal b y value, honesty and hold customers. Generic Strategy Model Figure 2: Porters Generic Model of Jones Lewis Partnership (Source: Dekker, Bloemhof and Mallidis, 2012, pp-677) Operation Strategy Implementation The John Lewis Partnership utilizes the above mentioned Operation strategies. Now the implementations of these strategies are discussed below: Figure 3: Implementation of operation strategies (Source: Caunhye, Nie and Pokharel, 2012, pp-6) First of all the implementation process of the operation strategies utilized by John Lewis requires to identify the competitors and attractiveness of the market. This aspect will decide the total strategic structure of the implementation procedure. Second aspect, which must be evaluated, is the strategic opportunities of the market (Jacobs and Chase, 2013). This will ensure the area of growth for John Lewis. Opportunities always bring threats to the developmental aspect of any organization. Therefore, it is very crucial for John Lewis to analyze the strategic alternatives available in the market (Bichou, Bell and Evans, 2013). The arrangement of opportunities and alternatives for proper situation allows John Lewis to specify their Strategic Objectives according to the demands of their customers. The final stage of the implementation process of operation strategies of John Lewis introduces the mixing of various strategic options collected from their competitors to their own strategy, which increases the competency of their operation strategy. Operation Strategy Monitoring The operation strategies can be easily observed by following the analysis of several issues. This analysis is given in the table below: Issues Observation Measurement of Productivity John Lewis focuses on the measurement of the productivity (Bozarth and Handfield, 2016). The ratings of the productivity evaluated if the operation strategy is helpful or not. Analysis of the Technological Problems There may be much kind of problems in retail industry. John Lewis always has their RD team ready to handle the technological problems (Schonsleben, 2016). Analysis of Employee Behavior Employee behaviour is changed due to implementation of many operation strategies at a time (Caunhye, Nie and Pokharel, 2012). Therefore, John Lewis avoids this kind of situation to make their employee more productive. Decision Making John Lewis put more focus on the results of the implementation of operation strategy. This aspect helps the organization while making the decision. (Stadtler, 2015). Operation Strategy Control The controlling process of operation strategy includes several aspects: leadership, disciplinary actions of the management. Controlling operation strategy is also introduced by John Lewis to measure the change in the strategic management of operations as follows: Execution of controlling procedure of Operation Strategy Value of John Lewis: The success of the value chain of John Lewis can be determined by the superior providence of service to the customers (Dyckhoff, Lackes and Reese, 2013). The warehouse and workforce management system of John Lewis introduces more effective optimization of work culture of the organization (johnlewispartnership.co.uk 2014). As a result of this, the partnership gained 16% productivity, the labor cost was reduced by 8%, the stock availability was enhanced and the delivery time reduced by 25% (Christopher, 2016). This aspect shows the addition of values in the developmental perspective of the organization. Performance measurement: John Lewis Partnership should put more focus on their employee performance, which ultimately measures the performance of the organization in the competitive market. Standardization: John Lewis follows many specific standards for improving their employee behavior. The standards are such as Code of Conduct, Administrative behavior, interpersonal communication (Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons 2013). Rating of key factors: The key factors involved in rating procedure are: skills of HR, leadership qualities, core capabilities of the organization and specific objectives followed by the organization (Dekker, Bloemhof and Mallidis, 2012). Analyzing the competitive business strategies of John Lewis Partnership The following are the business competitive strategies for John Lewis Partnership to increase their competitive advantage in the retail marketplace as follows: Cost Leadership: JLP adopts the cost leadership business strategy in their retail business operations to become the lowest cost production company. Two of the options are adopted to improve their profitability such as increasing or decreasing the cost (Christopher, Magrill and Wills, 2013). JLP focuses to acquire products and services of highest quality with lowest cost. JLP makes a promise Never knowingly undersold that spots that their product is sold more cheaply, the retailer will match the cost. Product and Service Differentiation: JLP offers branded products to the customers from the leading suppliers as well as own brand merchandise. On all the electrical items, they are giving two years guarantee. The John Lewis membership card helps the customers to give rewards as well as surprise threats (Coyle et al. 2016). The partnership card credit permits the customers in order to obtain points when they spend with the clients to receive points that are changed into vouchers. Price Strategy: The lower the cost of products, it leads to increase in market share. The revenue of the retailers rose 1.9 % with sales rising of 3% for John Lewis as 17.1 % of an increase in online sales (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015). Using their companys slogan Never knowingly undersold, the company compels pricing strategies of lowering the price John Lewis could offer (the Guardian, 2015). It was one of mover retailer offers their customers the confidence that promised the customers cheapest price in the town. It also allows partnership to retain loyalty of customers as well as trust by giving them promise (Gilmour, 2013). The promise is that they will never purchase the similar product elsewhere that is undersold. In any case, if the products are similar, then the customer is guaranteed to get refund. Contribution of the operation management to improve organization strategy Caunhye, Nie and Pokharel (2012) stated that the improvement strategy consists of selection criteria to focus on significant improvement initiatives, deployment of the resources and change management to high impact opportunities. Dekker, Bloemhof and Mallidis (2012) argued that the improvement strategy not only achieves the goal to boost the bottom line of business, but also the reason of involvement of customers in process improvement of the business operations. There may be several options available for controlling the operation strategies of John Lewis. These are: Supply Chain Management: John Lewis should focus on supply chain managing system for getting more growth opportunities in the competitive market (Rushton, Croucher and Baker, 2014). JLP aligns the supply chain with the business objectives by connecting the transactions as well as processes planning. The company also optimizes product design for their supply chain management. Control of Quality: John Lewis recently adopts Quality measures for better service providence for meeting their customer demands properly. They are provided with attractive presentation of site and introduction of new options for better search (Fernie and Sparks, 2014). Improvisation in RD department: John Lewis has improvised their RD team for achieving better performance, which have incremented their sale by 20% (Johnlewispartnership.co.uk, 2015). Such as, they are utilizing high quality database system for handling the customer data in way that is more effective. Conclusion and Recommendations Conclusion It is concluded that John Lewis Partnership is the most popular retail company in UK, their mission to satisfy their customer by providing good quality of products and services. John Lewis provides happiness to all of their consumers with worthwhile products and satisfactory employment in a successful business. It also maintains an employee ownership strategy. The organization focuses on three of the competitive business strategies such as cost leadership, product differentiation and pricing strategies. It helps the organization to achieve a high market share as compared to their competitors. Recommendations Development and Training Program: John Lewis should develop more innovative training programs for the improvement of their employees so that they can knowledge about how to sell their products and clarify the queries of the customers. Incentives: Incentives will create more motivational aspect among the employees, which will increase the profit of John Lewis. Technological Development: John Lewis should use more technologically advanced procedures for achieving brand value in the market. The website of JLP is developed so that the customers can get more information about their service and products. References Bozarth, C.B. and Handfield, R.B. (2016).Introduction to operations and supply chain management.Pearson Higher Ed. Caunhye, A.M., Nie, X. and Pokharel, S. (2012). Optimization models in emergency logistics: A literature review.Socio-economic planning sciences,46(1), pp.4-13. Christopher, M. (2016).Logistics supply chain management. Pearson Higher Ed, pp- 100-700. Christopher, M., Magrill, L. and Wills, G. (2013).Educational development for marketing logistics.International Journal of Physical Distribution Logistics Management. Coyle, J.J., Langley, C.J., Novack, R.A. and Gibson, B. 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